Inno4Vac

About the Project

A cloud-based systems-immunology platform for reliable predictions of vaccine efficacy

Developing a new vaccine typically takes more than a decade. Under a single umbrella, Inno4Vac proposes an ambitious programme that will harness the latest advances in immunology, disease modelling, and in silico and mathematical modelling for tackling persistent scientific bottlenecks in vaccine development and for de-risking and accelerating this process. Inno4Vac is an interdisciplinary project funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 (IMI2) that aims to harness advances in the fields of immunology, big data and artificial intelligence, 3D tissue models and human infection models, and incorporate them into the vaccine industry to accelerate the development of new vaccines. This five year and a half project (Sept 2021 – February 2027) brings together global leaders in the fields of clinical research, immunology, microbiology, systems biology, mathematical models, and regulatory matters. This diverse team will focus on four key areas or subtopics. INESC TEC’s focus is in Subtopic 1 – VAXPRED: Using big data analysis, computational modelling in combination with artificial intelligence is being used to build an open-access and cloud-based platform for in silico vaccine efficacy assessment and development.

Acronym

Inno4Vac

Responsible

Artur Rocha

Status

active

Starting Date

January 1, 2021

Ending Date

January 28, 2027

Effective End Date

Global Budget

€2,000,000.00

Funding

€298,750.00

Website

Datasheet

Members

Team Leaders

Artur Rocha

Centre Coordinator

Team Members

Ademar Aguiar

Centre Coordinator

Alexandre Almeida Costa

Researcher

Ana Victoriano

Researcher

Artur Rocha

Centre Coordinator

Associated Centres

Human-Centered Computing and Information Science

The Centre for Human-Centered Computing and Information Science (HumanISE) brings together engineers, scientists, and designers with expertise in Human-Centred Computing (HCC), Computer Science (CS), and Information Science (IS). Interdisciplinarity, one of the Centre’s defining features, fosters the development of software systems, methods, and tools designed to empower individuals and their communities. The excellence and impact of HumanISE’s research, innovation, and consultancy activities allow addressing increasingly complex, volatile, heterogeneous, ambiguous, and uncertain challenges, while ensuring compliance with legal, ethical, and organisational standards and frameworks. Value transfer is achieved through close collaboration with academia and industry partners. HumanISE’s core research areas include Human-Computer Interaction; Computer Graphics and Interactive Digital Media; Information Management and Information Systems; Software Engineering; and Large-Scale and Special-Purpose Computing Systems, Languages, and Tools; as well as Computing for Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems. HumanISE also explores innovation domains like Earth, Ocean and Space Sciences; Personalised Health Research; Geospatial Information Systems Engineering; and Applied Information Systems and Computing.