CEPI To Donate Around $60M To Moderna, Others To Develop Ebola Bundibugyo Vaccine

Reuters (6/1, Sunny, Mahatole, Rigby) reports, “Global health organisation CEPI will give roughly $60 million to Moderna and two other groups to accelerate the development of shots ​against Ebola Bundibugyo.” The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations “has committed up to $50 million to support preclinical and early clinical development of Moderna’s investigational BDBV vaccine candidate.” Additionally, “CEPI said it would...invest up to $8.6 million for ‌a shot ⁠developed by the University of Oxford and manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, and an initial $3.2 million for a vaccine developed by the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.”