NIAID High Priority Biodefense Products
This includes design, development and testing of products specific to NIAID Category A-C priority areas.
- High titer/concentrated Vaccinia Immune Globulin (VIG) or replacement product based on monoclonal antibodies (Mabs)
- Botulinum antitoxin including:
- safe and effective alternatives to toxoid vaccine
- monoclonal antibodies
- polyclonal antibodies
- Development of an alternative vaccine against smallpox that could be delivered to those at high risk of serious complications to the current vaccinia vaccine (e.g., MVA)
- Second generation anthrax vaccines (e.g., rPA)
- Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fever vaccines
- Tularemia vaccines
- Plague vaccines
- Rift Valley Fever vaccines
- Cell culture (e.g. Vero cells) based vaccines for influenza
- Antivirals for smallpox and viral hemorrhagic fevers
- Arenavirus and specific viral encephalitis vaccines (e.g., Tickborne encephalitis viruses, West Nile virus, Eastern equine encephalitis virus, Western equine encephalitis virus)