Press Releases

09/27/2018

IVI acquires $5 million grant to support process development, scale up of typhoid conjugate vaccine with SK Bioscience

– Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to allow SK Bioscience Co. Ltd, IVI to accelerate late-stage development of new vaccine necessary to achieve WHO prequalification The International Vaccine Institute (IVI), an international nonprofit organization devoted to providing vaccines critical to global public […]
09/27/2018

KOICA, IVI team up with Mozambican MoH and INS, partners to vaccinate 190,000 people against cholera

– Joint initiative aims to prevent and control cholera, and secure sustainable cholera and diarrheal disease surveillance  – WASH campaign to promote access to clean water and behavioral change for appropriate sanitation and hygiene practice – “KOICA is joining the program to contribute to ‘Ending […]
09/27/2018

IVI’s 18th Vaccinology Course gathers 120 international participants from 19 countries in Seoul September 3-7

Annual Course to update on the recent development in vaccinology, including basics of immunology, epidemiology, vaccine design and development Featured experts include: Stanley Plotkin (University of Pennsylvania), Dr. Barney Graham (US NIH), Dr. Randy Schoepp (USAMRID), Dr. Andy Pollard (University of Oxford), and Dr. Eric […]
10/01/2018

IVI accelerates development of MERS vaccine

– Institute jointly conducts phase 1/2a clinical trial of GeneOne Life Science’s GLS-5300 DNA MERS vaccine – IVI in search of additional promising candidate vaccines among developers worldwide, with support from Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation   The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) said on September […]