{"id":75375,"date":"2016-10-25T09:05:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T09:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5c30f4eba1660d16f3aac48a322fa496"},"modified":"2016-10-25T09:05:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T09:05:30","slug":"news-story-vaccines-for-global-epidemics-apply-for-innovation-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=75375","title":{"rendered":"News story: Vaccines for global epidemics: apply for innovation funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-of-health\">Department of Health<\/a> is to invest up to \u00a325 million in projects to develop new vaccines against infectious diseases.<\/p>\n<p>This competition aims to support the preclinical development of vaccines against 12 diseases. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/groups\/uk-vaccines-network\">UK Vaccine Network<\/a> has identified these diseases as a priority as they have the potential to cause epidemics in low and middle-income countries.<\/p>\n<p>The competition has 2 stages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>stage 1: exploring the scientific, technical and commercial feasibility of candidate vaccines and vaccine technologies. We expect projects to last for up to 12 months.<\/li>\n<li>stage 2: carrying out late stage preclinical and early clinical work, based on the results of stage 1. We expect projects to last for up to 24 months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/sbri-the-small-business-research-initiative\">Small Business Research Initiative<\/a> (SBRI) competition run in partnership with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-of-health\">Department of Health<\/a>, the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mrc.ac.uk\/\">Medical Research Council<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/innovate-uk\">Innovate UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>this competition is open now<\/li>\n<li>the registration deadline is noon on Wednesday 21 December 2016<\/li>\n<li>the application deadline is noon on Wednesday 4 January 2017<\/li>\n<li>there will be a <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/vaccines-for-global-epidemics-sbri-funding-competition-event-london-tickets-28576715726\">briefing event<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/vaccines-for-global-epidemics-sbri-funding-competition-event-webcast-tickets-28576775906\">webinar<\/a> for potential applicants in London on Monday 31 October 2016<\/li>\n<li>the competition is open to organisations of all sizes and types including academic, industry and government<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/sbri-funding-competition-vaccines-for-global-epidemics-preclinical\">Find out more about this event and apply online<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovative organisations are invited to apply for a share of \u00a325 million to help develop new vaccines against infectious diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}