Funding opportunities with CEPI

The University of Oslo and Oslo Science City are delighted to invite you to a meeting with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to discuss funding opportunities.

Time and place: – , Møterom DM L-200, Domus Medica, Sognsvannsveien 9
Gunnveig Grødeland

Gunnveig Grødeland (photo: UiO), senior researcher and leader of the Influenza and Adaptive Immunity research group at UiO and OUS, a field of relevance for CEPI. Now, researchers involved in basic research with relevance to the development of vaccines or other medical measures to limit epidemics can also apply for funding.

CEPI is an alliance to finance and coordinate the development of new vaccines to prevent and contain infectious disease epidemics.

Questions: post@oslosciencecity.no 

Agenda

Welcome by Christine Wergeland Sørbye, CEO Oslo Science City

Introduction by Jan Bjaalie, Dean of Research and Innovation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo

About CEPI and funding opportunities by Stig Tollefsen, Technology Office Lead CEPI and Danel Fullen, Senior manager CEPI

  • CEPI, who we are and what we do
    • Current portfolio
    • Equitable access policy
    • The 100 day mission                                  
  • CEPI calls for proposals, and special Focus on the broad innovations call for proposal  
    • What are we looking for and how do we assess the applications?
    • Criteria for strengthening the portfolio
    • Finding the true innovative ideas, and testing them
  • Success criteria for commercialization of novel ideas, from academic lab to successful startup
    • Commercialization plan (what is key to think about)
    • Thinking backwards from the future “end product”
    • Financing 

Discussion – Moderator: Kjetil Tasken, Head and Director of Institute of Cancer Research at Oslo University Hospital and Professor at Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo

Closing remarks by Jan Bjaalie 

CEPI
CEPI is an important source of funding for the development of new vaccines and other treatments against emerging infectious diseases. Picture from the launch of CEPI in Davos in 2017. Photo: Ciaran McCrickard/Wikimedia Commons.
Published Jan. 8, 2024 3:09 PM - Last modified Jan. 18, 2024 1:56 PM
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