A centre of excellence for studying vaccine-preventable diseases has been launched in Bristol.
The centre is funded by coronavirus vaccine manufacturer Pfizer and is the second of a global network of sites to launch, and the first outside the US.
The Pfizer Centre of Excellence for Epidemiology of Vaccine-preventable Diseases, based at the University of Bristol, will undertake research to support the design, development and use of next-generation vaccines.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock visited the centre’s research laboratories on Tuesday (Dominic Lipinski/PA)
The pharmaceutical company said it had invested an initial £4.6 million into the centre to conduct surveillance studies in hospitals and the community to “identify and measure the burden of specific vaccine-preventable infectious diseases affecting adults, including the elderly, as well as children”.
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