The network www.hic-vac.org Name email Date
What is HIC-Vac? ~£3m, 4 year MRC & BBSRC-funded network Support, develop and advocate the use of volunteer controlled infection studies, in order to: Improve understanding of infections and the diseases they cause Enhance the development of new/better vaccines & treatments
Experimental Human Infection Models “are on the rise” The UK has unique strengths Extensive infrastructure Need and utility is great: new vaccines, rapid advances in immunological understanding Strong commercial buy-in All our investigators work on LMIC diseases and/or have LMIC collaborators Experimental Human Infection Models “are on the rise”
Volunteers are willing to do a lot…
Our shared objectives UNDERPINNING Facilitate and support regulatory and ethical structures Enhance and support applications to science funders Enhance public understanding of HIC in the UK/LMICs Enable and de-risk phase III vaccine studies NETWORKING Create an interactive, supportive network of investigators Form bridges between the UK and LMICs Exchange of eligible volunteers between programmes
Network Management Board Name Surname Institution Peter Openshaw Imperial College London (Director) Andrew Pollard University of Oxford (Deputy Director) Stephen Gordon Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine & Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme Cherry Kang Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, India Daniela Ferreira Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Robert Read University of Southampton Meta Roestenberg Leiden University Medical Center John Tregoning Imperial College London
Membership Total members June, 2018: 134 Investigators (59): Independent current HIC studies Associates (50): Work with Investigators (Postdoc etc.) Affiliates (25): Others interested in HIC studies What we provide: Eligibility to apply for HIC-Vac funding Invitations to meetings and events Profile on website – networking and collaborations HIC-Vac mailing list for network notices
UK Members
Worldwide Members 134 members across 23 different countries
Pathogens we’d like new or better vaccines against…
Events All our events are listed on our website: 23-24 November 2017 Kick off meeting, Oxford 6 February 2018 Academy of Medical Sciences Regulatory Workshop, London 18-19 June 2018 Sandpit event with knowinnovation, Oxford 12-13 November 2018 HIC-Vac Annual Meeting, Liverpool November 2019 HIC-Vac Annual Meeting, LMIC location
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