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$42,990,046

Department of Health and Human Services·National Institutes of Health

to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

biotechactive
WORK BEGAN2020-07-14·LATEST ACTION·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_UM1AI148452_075
Award description

VANDERBILT VACCINE AND TREATMENT EVALUATION UNIT

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Supports the Vanderbilt Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit to conduct vaccine and treatment research and evaluation activities.

Sub-sectors
vaccine-developmenttreatment-evaluationpandemic-preparedness
Why this matters

Academic vaccine evaluation capacity strengthens U.S. pandemic preparedness and accelerates vaccine development pipelines for emerging infectious diseases.

Supply-chain signal

Academic evaluation infrastructure supports vaccine manufacturers and regulators with critical efficacy and safety data for vaccine development and approval pipelines.

U.S.–China competition angle

Strong vaccine evaluation capacity enhances U.S. competitive position in pandemic preparedness and global vaccine development leadership against international competitors.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-06-12. Cost: $0.012233.

Period of performance
Start
2020-07-14
End
2026-11-30
Status
activein 152 days
Sources

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