title: European strategy for vaccine development against infectious diseases.
abstract: Immunisation efforts save millions of lives every year, but vaccines hold the potential to deliver even greater health benefits for mankind. Vaccine research and development is highly complex, and it requires concerted public funding efforts to support. In this paper we discuss EU funding priorities and the resulting recent advancements in European vaccine research, and we lay out the EU strategy for aiding promising vaccine candidates to successfully reach the market.
authors.affiliation: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: line.matthiessen@ec.europa.eu.
authors.forename: Line
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Matthiessen
authors.affiliation: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Hannu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lång
authors.affiliation: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Klimathianaki
authors.affiliation: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Finnian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hanrahan
authors.affiliation: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kerstiëns
authors.affiliation: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Alessandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martini
authors.affiliation: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Ruxandra
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Draghia-Akli
mesh_terms: D016915:AIDS Vaccines / Q000191:economics; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000191:economics; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D003141:Communicable Diseases; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D055808:Drug Discovery / Q000379:methods; D005062:European Union; D006801:Humans; D007114:Immunization; D008288:Malaria / Q000517:prevention & control; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000517:prevention & control; D014611:Vaccination; D014612:Vaccines / Q000191:economics
chemical_list: D016915:AIDS Vaccines; D014612:Vaccines
keywords: Epidemic; Funding; HIV; Horizon 2020; Malaria; Outbreak; Tuberculosis; Vaccines