date:Dec 10, 2018
A global coalition set up to fight disease epidemics is investing up to US$8.4 million to develop a synthetic vaccine system that could be tailor-made to fight multiple pathogens such as flu, Ebola, Marburg and Rabies.
The deal, between the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and a team of scientists at Britain's Imperial College London is aimed at progressing a vaccine platform which uses synthetic self-amplifying RNA (saRNA).
A vaccine platform is a system that uses the sa