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Thursday, December 19, 2019

Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Consortium awards announced

New NIH grants build on established clinical trials program.

hands holding vaccine vial NIAID-funded clinical trial network will test new vaccines and treatments.Emory University

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of Health, today announced the establishment of the Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Consortium, a clinical trials network that will encompass the Institute’s long-standing Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units (VTEUs) and create a new consortium leadership group. NIAID intends to provide approximately $29 million per year for seven years for the VTEU program and its companion leadership group.

“For nearly 60 years, NIAID-supported VTEUs have played vital roles in developing new and improved vaccines and treatments for numerous infectious diseases, including influenza, pneumococcal disease and smallpox,” said NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. “This flagship program aligns with NIAID’s dual mission of conducting robust, wide-ranging biomedical research on existing infectious diseases while maintaining readiness to respond to emergent disease threats with the quick design and launch of clinical trials. We anticipate that the addition of a centralized leadership group will further enhance the effectiveness of this time-tested program.” 

The consortium leadership group will be headed by co-principal investigators David S. Stephens, M.D., of Emory University, and Kathleen M. Neuzil, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The group will include VTEU investigators as well as scientific experts in infectious diseases who will prioritize candidate vaccines, diagnostics, therapeutics and other interventions to test in clinical trials. To respond to public health emergencies, the leadership group will have the capacity to rapidly organize and initiate clinical trials at the VTEU sites. It also will coordinate activities with VTEU sites implementing specific clinical trials and with scientific staff in the NIAID Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID).

The nine VTEUs are located at institutions across the United States. They will conduct Phase 1 through 4 vaccine and treatment trials, including clinical studies in collaboration with industry partners. Depending on the disease or condition, the VTEUs may establish study sites and enroll participants at locations outside the United States. Additionally, sites will have the capacity to conduct human challenge trials—where healthy volunteers are exposed to infection under tightly controlled conditions—of influenza, malaria and other diseases. 

“We are excited to announce this new chapter in NIAID’s clinical trials research enterprise,” said DMID Director Emily Erbelding, M.D., M.P.H. “We fully expect that the Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Consortium, DMID’s largest clinical trials network, will continue to accelerate our progress in clinical research of vaccine candidates and other interventions for decades to come.”

The nine VTEUs are located at:

  • Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
    Principal Investigator (PI): Hana M. El Sahly, M.D.
    Grant number: 1 UM1 AI148575-01
  • Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
    PI: Robert Wilson Frenck, Jr., M.D.
    Grant number: 1 UM1 AI148372-01
  • Emory University, Atlanta
    PIs: Nadine G. Rouphael, M.D. (contact), Evan J. Anderson, M.D., Carlos del Rio, M.D.
    Grant number: 1 UM1 AI148576-01
  • Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle
    PI: Lisa A. Jackson, M.D., M.P.H.
    Grant number: 1 UM1 AI148373-01
  • Saint Louis University
    PI: Daniel Hoft, M.D., Ph.D.
    Grant number: 1 UM1 AI148685-01
  • University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore
    PI: Karen L. Kotloff, M.D.
    Grant number: 1 UM1 AI148689-01
  • University of Rochester, New York
    PIs: Ann R. Falsey, M.D. (contact), Angela R. Branche, M.D.
    Grant number: 1 UM1 AI148450-01
  • University of Washington, Seattle
    PIs: Anna Wald, M.D., M.P.H. (contact), R. Scott McClelland, M.D., M.P.H.
    Grant number: 1 UM1 AI148573-01
  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
    PI: C. Buddy Creech, M.D., M.P.H.
    Grant number: 1 UM1 AI148452-01

The grant number for the leadership group award is 1 UM1 AI148684-01. 

NIAID conducts and supports research—at NIH, throughout the United States, and worldwide—to study the causes of infectious and immune-mediated diseases, and to develop better means of preventing, diagnosing and treating these illnesses. News releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available on the NIAID website.

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