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. 2024 Apr 29;9(1):82.
doi: 10.1038/s41541-024-00872-6.

Realising the potential of correlates of protection for vaccine development, licensure and use: short summary

Deborah F King  1 , Helen Groves  2 , Charlie Weller  2 , Ian Jones  3 , Jakob P Cramer  4 , Peter B Gilbert  5 , David Goldblatt  6 , Marion F Gruber  7 , Beate Kampmann  8 , Diadié Maïga  9 , Marcela F Pasetti  10 , Stanley A Plotkin  11 , Alexander Precioso  12 , Liya Wassie  13 , Frederick Wittke  14 , David C Kaslow  15   16
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Realising the potential of correlates of protection for vaccine development, licensure and use: short summary

Deborah F King et al. NPJ Vaccines. .

Abstract

On 27–29th of September 2022, Wellcome convened an international multi-stakeholder workshop to discuss the use of Correlates of Protection (CoP) to accelerate vaccine development, the hybrid format meeting was attended by 80 delegates including developers, manufacturers, regulators, public health officials and policy-makers from 17 countries, including 7 LMIC’s.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest other than Frederick Wittke and Stanley Plotkin. F.W. is an Employee of MSD, acting as TA Head European Clinical Development for Vaccines, and holds shares from MSD. S.P. consults for vaccine manufacturers including pharmaceutical and biotech companies, as well as non-profit organisations.

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Simplified decision tree for consideration of correlates data in initial licensing of a vaccine.
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