Manufacturing research hub for a sustainable future: Vaccines for pandemic preparedness
Lead Research Organisation:
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Department Name: Biochemical Engineering
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to take a huge toll - an estimated 6.3m people have died including 178,000 in the UK. Globally 1.6bn students have missed school, 250m people will be pushed into extreme poverty and economic losses are estimated at £12tr. History shows that epidemic and pandemic threats constantly emerge, whilst SARS-CoV-2 continues to mutate as it becomes endemic. It is clear that major losses could be prevented by sustained domestic investment in public health. Work undertaken within Vax-Hub1 on responsive technologies and accelerated quality control methods enabled rapid development and manufacture of the ChAdOx1 vectored vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 (licensed for emergency use in December 2020 via a non-profit partnership with AstraZeneca). Over 2.9bn doses have now been released in 180 countries. The UK had a leading role during the pandemic and the proposed Hub builds on this success to advance novel research on a broader range of technologies. Working closely with stakeholders, Vax-Hub will enable the UK to be better prepared for the next pandemic.
This investment into The Future Vaccine Manufacturing Hub will enable our vision to make the UK the global centre for vaccine discovery, development and manufacture. The Vaccine Manufacturing Hub brings together a world-class multidisciplinary team with decades of cumulative experience in all aspects of vaccine design and manufacturing research. This Hub will bring academia, industry, not-for-profit organizations and policy makers together to propose radical change in vaccine development and manufacturing technologies, building on a technological innovation culture.
The Hub will enhance future vaccine manufacturing through (i) de-risked manufacture of new vaccines by strategically innovating for a selected range of the most promising platform technologies (established and novel/disruptive); (ii) developing manufacturing options that improve the product quality and so immunogenicity; (iii) streamlined manufacturing process development with novel responsive solutions and advanced digitalisation strategies; (iii) a focus on enhancing stability and needle-free administration routes so they become a reality within the lifetime of the Hub. The proposed Hub would be the natural location for early-stage research before projects are transferred to a GMP manufacturing facility.
The work focuses on development of improved vaccine platforms which can be flexible enough to be used for multiple product manufacture. These improved vaccine technologies are used as case studies to test rapid and responsive development tools to create a whole process mimicking vaccine manufacture, which could be easily and quickly deployed in case of epidemic/pandemic scenario. Finally the research focuses on standard and novel adjuvants to make mucosal delivery a reality, thus allowing alternative route to injection for mass administration.
The Hub will establish the UK as the global centre for end-to-end vaccine research and manufacture. Additionally, vaccines should be considered a national security priority, as it is evident that diseases do not respect international boundaries, thus this work into capacity building and rapid response is a significant advantage. The impact of this Hub will be felt internationally, as the UK reaffirms its leadership in Global Health and works to ensure that the outputs of this Hub reach the global community and the most vulnerable, especially children.
This investment into The Future Vaccine Manufacturing Hub will enable our vision to make the UK the global centre for vaccine discovery, development and manufacture. The Vaccine Manufacturing Hub brings together a world-class multidisciplinary team with decades of cumulative experience in all aspects of vaccine design and manufacturing research. This Hub will bring academia, industry, not-for-profit organizations and policy makers together to propose radical change in vaccine development and manufacturing technologies, building on a technological innovation culture.
The Hub will enhance future vaccine manufacturing through (i) de-risked manufacture of new vaccines by strategically innovating for a selected range of the most promising platform technologies (established and novel/disruptive); (ii) developing manufacturing options that improve the product quality and so immunogenicity; (iii) streamlined manufacturing process development with novel responsive solutions and advanced digitalisation strategies; (iii) a focus on enhancing stability and needle-free administration routes so they become a reality within the lifetime of the Hub. The proposed Hub would be the natural location for early-stage research before projects are transferred to a GMP manufacturing facility.
The work focuses on development of improved vaccine platforms which can be flexible enough to be used for multiple product manufacture. These improved vaccine technologies are used as case studies to test rapid and responsive development tools to create a whole process mimicking vaccine manufacture, which could be easily and quickly deployed in case of epidemic/pandemic scenario. Finally the research focuses on standard and novel adjuvants to make mucosal delivery a reality, thus allowing alternative route to injection for mass administration.
The Hub will establish the UK as the global centre for end-to-end vaccine research and manufacture. Additionally, vaccines should be considered a national security priority, as it is evident that diseases do not respect international boundaries, thus this work into capacity building and rapid response is a significant advantage. The impact of this Hub will be felt internationally, as the UK reaffirms its leadership in Global Health and works to ensure that the outputs of this Hub reach the global community and the most vulnerable, especially children.
Organisations
- UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (Lead Research Organisation)
- National Institute of Bioprocessing Research and Training (Collaboration)
- Wits Health Consortium (Collaboration)
- King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (Collaboration)
- MCI Sante Animale (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Naturbeads (Collaboration)
- Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) (Collaboration)
- Phenotypeca (Collaboration)
- VABIOTECH (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- BIOINDUSTRY ASSOCIATION (Collaboration)
- Polytechnic University of Milan (Collaboration)
- University of Liverpool (Collaboration)
- University of Cumbria (Collaboration)
- PT Bio Farma (Collaboration)
- aVaxziPen (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- Baseimmune (Collaboration)
- Croda Europe Ltd (Collaboration)
- National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC) (Collaboration)
- Upperton Pharma Solutions (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Collaboration)
- Midlands State University (Collaboration)
- MEDICINES AND HEALTHCARE REGULATORY AGENCY (Collaboration)
- PATH (Collaboration)
- Centre for Process Innovation (Project Partner)
- Synthace Ltd (Project Partner)
- LGC (Project Partner)
- Phenotypeca Ltd (Project Partner)
- UK BioIndustry Association (BIA) (Project Partner)
- Incepta Vaccine Ltd. (Project Partner)
- CRODA EUROPE LIMITED (Project Partner)
- AstraZeneca (Project Partner)
- SpyBiotech Ltd (Project Partner)
- Baseimmune Limited (Project Partner)
- Catalent Pharma Solutions (Project Partner)
- Woolcool (Project Partner)
- Sartorius Corporate GmbH (Project Partner)
- Micropore Technologies (Project Partner)
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Recombinant production platform for Group A Streptococcus glycoconjugate vaccines.
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Defining a Simplified Process in Yeast for Production of Enveloped VLP Dengue Vaccine.
in Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland)
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Power, mixing and flow dynamics of the novel Allegroâ„¢ stirred tank reactor
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| Year Produced | 2024 |
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| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | This artwork is exhibited at the Water Pressure exhibition at the Museul of Applied Arts (MK&G) in Hamburg. |
| URL | https://www.mkg-hamburg.de/en/exhibitions/water-pressure |
| Title | BEAM Exhibition 2024, Frankfurt |
| Description | Robotically 3D printed mycelium prototype from "Ephecelium", from Bio-Integrated Design Lab, exhibited at the Formnext BEAM exhibition |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Developing of a prototype to test additive manufacturing as a scaffold for mycelium growth, resulting into advanced knowledge regarding how to integrate this biomaterial with digital fabrication. The exhibition had present a wide audience, including professional practitioners and academics. |
| URL | https://formnext.mesago.com/frankfurt/de.html |
| Title | Blue Biomass Exhibition |
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| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
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| Title | London Festival of Architecture 2025 - Resonant Spaces |
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| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Impact | This exhibition served as a platform to showcase or research and to connect with a wider audience. |
| Title | Participation in the Biennale College Architettura project, realized by La Biennale di Venezia |
| Description | Awarded to produce the project Blue Garden: The Architecture of Emergence to participate in the Venice Biennale Architettura 2025, 19th International Architecture Exhibition |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Impact | Participation in a five-month international exhibition showcasing innovative projects in architecture and design. This exhibition provides a platform to present Bio-Integrated Design to a broad audience, fostering widespread engagement. The final outcome of this participation is a unique art piece. |
| URL | https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2025/progetti-e-partecipanti |
| Description | The Hub is now in its third year and the research team is now fully recruited and in place. Notable research outcomes are included in our Annual report, published every year in May. These include: the development of an automated platform to speed up to vaccine discovery and scale-up stages for new vaccine technology, which has been developed in collaboration with a UK HEI spoke LHSTM, and new development results and formulation routes explored by University of Oxford for either VLPs and viral vectored vaccines. In the last year there has been an increase in the number of organizations approaching the hub to join as members, and we now have 32 in total. The first call for funding for this grant has been organized and 4 projects awarded. these are now in their mid-term reporting period. |
| Exploitation Route | New methods developed in the Hub are regularly presented to our industry members for discussion and potential uptake. |
| Sectors | Education Healthcare Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology |
| Description | Contribution to MHRA consultation on regulation of AI in healthcare |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Contribution to UCL response to call for evidence on innovation, growth, regions |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/134153/pdf/ |
| Description | Contribution to call for evidence for the 'Fourth health and climate adaptation report' |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Contribution to call for evidence on Technology Adoption Review |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Contribution to call for evidence on science diplomacy |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Contribution to the London Plan consultation |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Covid Enquiry Response |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/inq000474278_0013-extract-from-the-witness-statement-of-... |
| Description | Giving the evidence on lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic at the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee (8 October 2024) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/event/21939/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/ |
| Description | Meeting with Andrew Mitchell MP Minister for Development and Africa and FCDO staff |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://www.devex.com/news/minister-promises-to-act-as-experts-raise-alarm-over-uk-pandemic-readines... |
| Description | Participation on the Global Pandemic Preparedness Summit 2024 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://static.cepi.net/downloads/2024-07/EN%20%26%20PT_PROVISIONAL%20PROGRAMME_GPPS%202024_July%202... |
| Description | Response to the EU Circular Economy Act consultation |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Response to the UK Industrial Strategy consultation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/steapp/sites/steapp/files/uk_industrial_strategy_consultation_-_vaxhub_respons... |
| Description | UKHSA Academic Partnership Day |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ukhsa-advisory-board-meeting-papers-january-2025/ukhsa-ad... |
| Description | Vaccine resilience for the next pandemic |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/45865/documents/227678/default/ |
| Description | Written submission to call for evidence on Engineering Biology |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/130243/pdf/ |
| Description | GlycoCell |
| Amount | £12,300,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/Y008472/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2024 |
| End | 02/2029 |
| Description | Platform for decentralised vaccine production through cell free expression |
| Amount | $2,800,000 (USD) |
| Funding ID | https://cepi.net/transatlantic-scientists-transition-traditional-vaccine-development-rapid-response-platform-faster |
| Organisation | Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2025 |
| End | 12/2026 |
| Description | World Health Organization (WHO): - Generation of virus free polio vaccine: vi) |
| Amount | $1,490,000 (USD) |
| Organisation | World Health Organization (WHO) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Start | 01/2025 |
| End | 12/2027 |
| Description | AvaxMed VaxHub partner |
| Organisation | aVaxziPen |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | BIOTEC (National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology) VaxHub member |
| Organisation | National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC) |
| Country | Thailand |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings, valued at between £10k and £123k per annum, depending on organisation size. |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | BaseImmune Vax-Hub Partner |
| Organisation | Baseimmune |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating Organisation and Partnership under the Future Vaccine Manufacturing Research Hub (Vax-Hub), VaxHUb Sustainable and VaxHub Global. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the Hub via participation in Hub meetings. |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the Hub's vision to make the UK the global centre for integrated discovery through to bioprocess manufacture of next-generation vaccines. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Baseimmune VaxHub member |
| Organisation | Baseimmune |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Bio Farma VaxHub member |
| Organisation | PT Bio Farma |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | BioIndustry Association |
| Organisation | BioIndustry Association |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings. |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | CPI (Centre for Process Innovation) VaxHub member |
| Organisation | Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings. |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Centre for process innovation, Darlington |
| Organisation | Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Joint research on fermentation |
| Collaborator Contribution | Joint research on fermentation |
| Impact | Further funding |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Croda Group VaxHub member |
| Organisation | Croda Europe Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings. |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | KMUTT VaxHub partner |
| Organisation | King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok |
| Country | Thailand |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings. |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Liselo Labs VaxHub member |
| Organisation | Polytechnic University of Milan |
| Department | LaBS |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings. |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | MCI Sante Animale VaxHub member |
| Organisation | MCI Sante Animale |
| Country | Morocco |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings. |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency |
| Organisation | Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings. |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Midlands State University VaxHub member |
| Organisation | Midlands State University |
| Country | Zimbabwe |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings. |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | NIBRT VaxHub member |
| Organisation | National Institute of Bioprocessing Research and Training |
| Country | Ireland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Naturbeads VaxHub member |
| Organisation | Naturbeads |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings. |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | PATH VaxHub member |
| Organisation | PATH |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | PT Bio Farma Vax-Hub Partner |
| Organisation | PT Bio Farma |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating Organisation and Partnership under the Future Vaccine Manufacturing Research Hub (Vax-Hub), VaxHub Sustainable and vaxHub Global |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the Hub including valuable LMIC perspective via participation in Hub meetings, |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the Hub's vision to make the UK the global centre for integrated discovery through to bioprocess manufacture of next-generation vaccines. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Phenotypeca VaxHub member |
| Organisation | Phenotypeca |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | University of Birmingham VaxHub member |
| Organisation | University of Birmingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | University of Cumbria VaxHub member |
| Organisation | University of Cumbria |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | University of Liverpool VaxHub member |
| Organisation | University of Liverpool |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | University of Nottingham VaxHub member |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2026 |
| Description | Upperton Pharma Solutions VaxHub member |
| Organisation | Upperton Pharma Solutions |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | VABIOTECH VaxHub member |
| Organisation | VabioTech |
| Country | Viet Nam |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | WITS Health Consortium VaxHub member |
| Organisation | Wits Health Consortium |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating organisation and partnership under the VaxHub Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time including provision of advice and guidance on the overall direction and progress of the VaxHub via participation in VaxHub meetings. |
| Impact | Working within a network of users and academics to deliver the vision of the VaxHub Network. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Title | Glyconjugate Vaccines |
| Description | This invention relates to the use of S. pneumoniae protein antigens, such as NanA, PiuA and Sp0148, as carriers for immunogenic S. pneumoniae capsular polysaccharide. This may be useful for example in glycoconjugate vaccines able to generate a protective immune response against multiple capsular serotypes. Glycoconjugates, vaccine compositions and methods of manufacture and use are provided. |
| IP Reference | US2023241208 |
| Protection | Patent / Patent application |
| Year Protection Granted | 2023 |
| Licensed | No |
| Title | FAIRSci Application |
| Description | FAIRSci: A platform for building and sharing laboratory processes and data. First MVP available and testing by internal users. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2026 |
| Impact | The application aims to improve the reproducibility of processes by formalising their description and ensurign they can be freely and easily shared. This will also reduce wasted time and resources by ensuring that processes and related data adhere to FAIR principles. |
| URL | https://fairsci.com/ |
| Title | Process design and sharing - prototype application |
| Description | SciFlow (working title, likely to change before first official release) is an online platform for designing and sharing process flows. The application currently has features for experiment design (defining factors and responses), process design via a drag and drop no-code interface, and workspace maps (e.g. liquid handling deck, or plant floor plans). A prototype of the user interface has been released and is accessible online with accounts currently created on request for testing purposes. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Impact | The application aims to improve the reproducibility of processes by formalising their description. This will also reduce wasted time and resources by ensuring that processes and related data adhere to FAIR principles. |
| URL | http://sciflow.co.uk |
| Description | 'The power of prevention: boosting vaccine uptake' event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Attended the 'The power of prevention: boosting vaccine uptake' event organised by the Reform think tank which brought together local and national policymakers, including Steve Race MP, to discuss the key role of vaccine uptake in prevention and achieving the Government's health mission. This engagement built on our contribution to a briefing paper on boosting vaccine uptake published last year. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | 18th International Congress of Immunology Cape Town South Africa - Keynote Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 18th International Congress of Immunology Cape Town South Africa attendance Nov 27th- Dec 2nd 2023 and Keynote lecture on Development of Vaccines against Outbreak Pathogens enabling discussions with a wide variety of colleagues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://iuis.org/events/iuis-2023/ |
| Description | 2023 ISV Congress Chair - Next Generation Vaccines - 22-24 October 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Chaired a Congress session at the 2023 International Society for Vaccines Annual meeting on Next Generation Vaccines, Lausanne Switzerland on 23rd October 2023. Participated in the congress 22-24 October 2023 engaging in discussions, with peers, industry professionals and students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://isvcongress.org/node/217 |
| Description | A seminar talk at event organised and hosted by Scientists in Schools. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A seminar talk focusing on the Vax Hub project (How can we improve vaccines & vaccination rates for future pandemics) and panel discussion as part of the schools festival of science themed around 'cutting edge science'. Event organised and hosted by Scientists in Schools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | ATOM science festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Catherine Green had a public presentation about vaccine technologies and pandemic responses |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Article for The Conversation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An article for The Conversaton |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/to-eradicate-polio-once-and-for-all-we-need-a-new-vaccine-thats-what-wer... |
| Description | Article written for STEM Dorado magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Publication of "Robot Scientists: How Macines Make Medicines" article for target audience 9-14 years old |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://online.fliphtml5.com/dqwze/gahh/ |
| Description | Attendance to TRANSVAC course on vaccine process development and scale-up |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was an attendee of the TRANSVAC training course which aimed at delivering a comprehensive knowledge of vaccine development and scale-up to researchers and not-for-profit organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | BIA MAC committee |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Catherine Green joined a manufacturing advisory committee |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | BIG Event Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hosted a workshop/conference session highlighting some of the work I am doing for PSI and VaxHub on engaging high school students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | BILATERAL UK-BELGIUM VISITS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Catherine Green participated in establishing a closer collaboration between key Belgian industrial and academic partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Bartholomew School Eynsham GSCE/A Level Student Workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Vaccine Design workshops (GCSE) and syllabus enrichment programme for 'Infection and Immunity' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Bartholomew School Eynsham. MedSoc Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Discussion around vaccine ethics from manufacturing to access |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Begbroke Science Wonder Garden |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A science festival stand helping explain how vaccine platform technologies such as viral vectors and RNA vaccines work in the body by covering the fundamentals of transcription/translation through hands on activities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.ox.ac.uk/event/science-wonder-garden-party |
| Description | Biochemical Engineering careers workshop - Dr Challoner's High School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Workshop with Dr Calloner's Girls sixth from to introduce Biochemical Engineering as a possible career path. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| Description | Blackbird Leys Youth Space Project - Science Festival Activity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Science festival activities focused on explaining the various key steps for vaccine manufacturing with a focus on Adenovirus. Activities include hands on activities explaining the differences and importance of filtration, clarification and chromatography as well as using real lab equipment (flasks and bioreactos) to explain how we grow adenovirus upstream |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Blog article on Unleashing the economic potential of UK manufacturing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We participated in the Future of UK Manufacturing Conference and wrote a blog article about the pivotal role manufacturing has to play in building a thriving and resilient UK economy. The new Labour Governments' commitment to a new industrial strategy presented us with the opportunity to build on this piece and make a strong case for increasing UK's medicine manufacturing capacity, including vaccines manufacturing, in our response to the Industrial Strategy consultation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/steapp/2024/05/02/unleashing-the-economic-potential-of-uk-manufacturing/ |
| Description | Cancer vaccines seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Catherine Green had a presentation to patient group for cancer vaccine initiatives |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Career Masterclass at Newham Collegiate Sixth Form Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Masterclass to introduce students to Biochemical Engineering as a University study subject and potential careers in the bioprocessing industry - using vaccine manufacture as example. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Career masterclasses induction day at Newham Collegiate Sixth Form Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Purpose of the session: Raising students aspirations and demystifying career pathways, education about Vaccine Manufacturing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Co-organiser and Speaker at MIT Vaccines bioprocess development and commercialization workshop (3-5 June 2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Stefanie Frank presented on VaxHub Sustainable and VaxHub Global activities and research case studies, she also co-organised in this training course |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://vaccinesworkshop.mit.edu/#program |
| Description | Coalition for Global Prosperity Future Leaders Conference Speaker - The UK as a Health and Science 'Superpower' - 8th September 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Coalition for Global Prosperity Future Leaders Conference Speaker - The UK as a Health and Science 'Superpower' - 8th September 2023 - Ditchley Park , UK - spoke about science as a collective endeavour and short-termism in the science community. Also held discussions with other invitees over coffee breaks and lunch on related topics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.coalitionforglobalprosperity.com/ditchley-park-retreat |
| Description | Conclusion of VaxHub vaccine development project with Newham Colligate Sixth Form |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The UCL-Oxford vaccine development project aims to challenge students in thinking about vaccine development and production, with focus on the rapid development of the Covid-19 vaccine. Students are expected to work in small groups and, following online research, to complete two tasks. Each group will then present its work in front of UCL students and academics, who will assess presentations and select a winner. This project aims to help build a robust understanding of vaccines and the role of biochemical engineering in vaccine production, as well as develop research, communication and teamwork skills. Students had been working in groups to research specific aspects of vaccine manufacture. They attended to present their research in front of a panel of UCL academics. Prizes were awarded for the best projects and presentations. Tours of the UCL Biochemical Engineering Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering laboratories were also given. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| Description | Conclusion of VaxHub vaccine development project with Oaklands school |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The UCL-Oxford vaccine development project aims to challenge students in thinking about vaccine development and production, with focus on the rapid development of the Covid-19 vaccine. Students are expected to work in small groups and, following online research, to complete two tasks. Each group will then present its work in front of UCL students and academics, who will assess presentations and select a winner. This project aims to help build a robust understanding of vaccines and the role of biochemical engineering in vaccine production, as well as develop research, communication and teamwork skills. Students had been working in groups to research specific aspects of vaccine manufacture. They attended to present their research in front of a panel of UCL academics. Prizes were awarded for the best projects and presentations. Tours of the UCL Biochemical Engineering Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering laboratories were also given. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| Description | Day visit to UCL Biochemical Engineering, with talks and lab tours with Year 12 Mulberry School for Girls |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Organized a day visit to UCL Biochemical Engineering for year 12 students from Mulberry School for Girls. 40 students and 3 teachers attended a 5 hr event to introduce the subject of Biochemical Engineering and study/career possibilities. The activities included talks on Biochemical Engineering study options, Vaccine Manufacture, Cell & Gene Therapy, laboratory tours and discussion groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Demonstration of Automation Platform School Children |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Demonstration of the Tecan automation platform during a visit from readers of the STEM Dorado magazine to the Biochemical Engineering department. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| Description | Demonstration of Vaccine Technology to School Children |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Demonstration of the vaccine manufacturing and downstream processing during a visit from readers of the STEM Dorado magazine to the Biochemical Engineering department. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| Description | Department for Business and Trade away day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | We supported the Department for Business and Trade's Advanced Manufacturing Directorate's away day hosted at UCL. We met with policymakers working on the Government's new Industrial Strategy and discussion topics included sustainable medicines manufacturing, a topic on which we have published a position paper and shared it with relevant policymakers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/steapp/unlocking-growth-promise-held-sustainable-medicines-manufacturing |
| Description | Dialogue with DHSC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | We have continued to engage with policymakers from DHSC on how research and expertise in the VaxHubs can support the UK's future pandemic preparedness. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025,2026 |
| Description | Dialogue with Office for Life Sciences |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | We met with policymakers from the Office for Life Sciences to discuss the recommendations made in our position paper on sustainable medicines manufacturing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/steapp/unlocking-growth-promise-held-sustainable-medicines-manufacturing |
| Description | Discussion workshops with Orleans Park School Year 10 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Series of seminars and discussions with Year 10 students from Orleans Park School held on 2 days. Different group of 30 students attending on each day. Topics on Day 1: Principles of Bioprocessing, Microsomes as therapeutics and Production of alternative foods. Topics on Day 2: Principles of Bioprocessing, Monoclonal Antibodies and Biochemical engineering careers. Talks and discussions were followed with laboratory tours on both days. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Doherty Institute Media Conference - Melbourne 27th September 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on COVID-19 - challenges, lessons learnt and where to next - in a media conference hosted by Melbourne Laureate Professor Sharon Lewin, Director of the Doherty Institute. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.doherty.edu.au/news-events/news/covid-19-vaccines-with-special-guest-professor-dame-sara... |
| Description | ESACT-UK conference, Brimingham (8-9 Jan 2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Catherine Green participated in a panel discussion and prize adjudication committee |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.esactuk.org.uk/event/35th-annual-meeting-esact-uk-2025/ |
| Description | ESCMID Lisbon 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk given on development of Outbreak Pathogen Vaccines with Different Routes to Licensure at ESCMID annual meeting on 11 SEP 2025. ESCMID is a non-profit organisation that provides continued education, research support and networking opportunities to Clinical Microbiology (CM) and Infectious Diseases (ID) professionals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.escmid.org/fileadmin/escmid/media/pdf/conferences/converence_on_vaccines/2025/Scientific... |
| Description | Exeter college summer school |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Catherine Green gave a lecture to undergraduates |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Exploratory Meetings with Prospective Collaborative Partners |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | One-on-one meetings were convened to initiate discussions on potential synergies and collaborations with a variety of prospective partners, including: • Incepta (06/10/23) • Biofarma (15/11/23) • Fiocruz (28/11/23) • Virica Biotech (20/12/23) • Microneedle Solutions (25/01/24) • Touchlight (26/01/24) • B Medical Systems (07/03/2024) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
| Description | FONSAC 23 Nigeria Oct 2023 (on-line) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | FONSAC 23 Nigeria Oct 2023 - invited speaker on VLP vaccines |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Festival of Tomorrow Primary Schools Workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | As part of the festival of Tomorrows Schools program, Sean Elias provided workshops in primary schools in Swindon. The focus of the workshops were the vaccine design process focusing on vaccine technology and vaccine delivery methods. In total 3 schools were attended as part of the program with a total of 8 individual workshops. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Festival of the Girl (Islington, London) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Festival of the Girl focuses on promoting confidence, life skills and broad career prospects in young girls aged 7-11. A big focus of this is STEM based research. VaxHub attended for the second year to provide a stand promoting our work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.festivalofthegirl.com/ |
| Description | Festival of the Girl (Islington, London) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Science Festival style event as per previous years. Focus on vaccine manufacturing as with previous years but also ran new activities focused on biopolymers in vaccine research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Festival of tomorrow in Swindon (20 Feb 2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Sean Elias organised the pop up event 'Research for a Health Future' on 20 Feb 2025 as part of the Festival of Tomorrow in Swindon. This was a collaboration between researchers based in Oxford University and UCL with VaxHub a central part. Reshma Kailath attended in a supporting role. Their engagement activities are to help out with the future pandemic planning, winter viruses (with focus on flu), vaccine delivery routes (needle vs aerosol vs nasal etc), vaccine manufacturing and improving vaccine immunity. The aim was to establish Swindon as a new location for targeted engagement and forge links with local community groups. A major outcome was that Sean Elias set up a future collaboration with the NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) to share information about the work of VaxHub with its members and local community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.festivaloftomorrow.com/the-festival/whats-on/ |
| Description | Frontiens Symposium Kenya 2025 (5-7 Feb 2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Lalintip Hocharoen, together with other 72 academia, innovators, industry representatives attended the Frontiers Symposium Kenya 2025 with a theme of 'Catalysing global healthcare: innovations and strategies for scalable impact' The events were discussion and workshops with keynote speakers on three main topics. The networking session was interactive and promoting collaborations. The seed fundings are provided for successful partnership arisen from this event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://raeng.org.uk/programmes-and-prizes/programmes/international-programmes/frontiers/about-the-s... |
| Description | GVIRF 2025- Prof. Sarah Gilbert |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Global Vaccine and Immunization Research Forum (GVIRF) 2025 took place from March 25-27 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, focusing on vaccine innovation, research, and implementation strategies. It included high-level panels, workshops, and discussions on topics such as antimicrobial resistance, clinical trial innovations, and equitable vaccine access. The forum aims to foster collaboration among stakeholders to enhance global immunization efforts and address public health challenges. It is invite only and is an opportunity to interact with WHO and influence international policy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2025/03/25/default-calendar/sixth-global-vaccine-and-imm... |
| Description | IDRM Get to know each other event (12 Nov 2024) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | IDRM researchers attended the event to share their work and networking. Reshma Kailath presented her work on enhancing the proportion of infectious particles in adenovirus preparations by encapsulating the viral particles with lipids, thereby facilitating entry into CAR-deficient cell lines and reducing the overall cost per vaccine dose. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | IDRM Summer Science Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Lab and careers skills workshops over a week across multiple labs at IDRM including Gilbert group lab. Science communications workshop presented by Sean |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Infection Prevention Society- 15th Annual Conference - Preparing for Pandemic Vaccine Development Talk - 19th October 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk at the Infection Prevention Society Conference in Liverpool on 19th October 2023 followed by discussions with professionals, industrialists and other colleagues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ips.uk.net/education-and-events |
| Description | Innovate UK event on sustainable medicines manufacturing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Joined the 'Launch & Link: Sustainable Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Programme' event organised by Innovate UK which enabled us to build connections with policymakers and industry representatives, and explore possible future synergies between the work undertaken within VaxHub Sustainable on sustainable vaccine manufacturing and bioprocessing, and the Expression of Interest projects showcased at the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Innovating Vaccine Development: Engineering, Automation, and T Level Partnerships - Webinar for the Education Training Foundation (ETF) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Group Industry Placement for Engineering and Manufacturing, and Health and Science T Level staff. We welcome all Science and Engineering T Level educators to join the VaxHub as they dive into the innovation behind their vaccine development and their T Level program that has proven successful in integrating students into the workplace by harnessing vital skills required in this area of the industry. This workshop will cover: an introduction to VaxHub and their outreach/training programs a discussion on the role of engineers in vaccine manufacturing the VaxHubs T Level program with North Hertfordshire College automation - creating digital tools streamlining laboratory workflows, enhancing reproducibility, and accelerating vaccine formulation optimisation, specific experiences using T Level students will accompany this. process development and quality control to accelerate vaccines to market. A live Q&A session will follow each of our speakers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| URL | https://learning.etfoundation.co.uk/courses/group-industry-placement-engineering-and-science-innovat... |
| Description | Input into National Measurement Laboratory Engineering Biology Day at the National Measurement Laboratory at LGC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Stefanie Frank attended the event as UCL representative; she inputted into a workshop to help shape the future of engineering biology by contributing to the development of EngBioMet, a new Metrology Network designed to drive collaboration and accelerate innovation in the field. Heard from leading voices across academia, research institutes, industry, regulators, and funding bodies. Discussions on how measurement science and standards underpin safe, effective translation and responsible innovation in engineering biology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| Description | Interactive presentations with Q&A for Orleans Park School year 10 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Vax-Hub interactive presentation with Q&A on the nature of modern vaccine design, importance in conferring community level protection and role in combating the spread of anti-microbial resistance. Also, explanation of what is Biochemical Engineering and its specific role in vaccine manufacture. With emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of modern STEM subjects and the many diverse career pathways studying STEM opens up. The workshop was given to 4 groups of students over 2 days. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | International Scientific Advisory Board for Duke Vaccine Centre, Washington (15-17 Apr 2024) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Catherine Green was part of an International Scientific Advisory Board for Duke Vaccine Centre |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Interview for national news on Shigella food poisoning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Several national newspaper on Shigella outbreaks and advice to general public when travelling to avoid food poisoning. All discussed development of travellers diarrhoea vaccines |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| Description | Interview with BBC Radio 4 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview on How prepared are we for the next pandemic? Broadcast on Radio 4 28 AUG 2025 a part of a series on UK resilience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002hky0 |
| Description | Introductory Workshop on vaccine manufacture at NHC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to introduce BTec and T-Level students to the role of Biochemical Engineering in vaccine manufacture. Consisted of presentation and discussion groups. This will be followed up by a series of classes and practicals to be held in 2026 at NHC and Vax-Hub labs in UCL Biochemical Engineering. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Jenner Institute seminar series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Catherine Cherry and Jacqueline Vieira presented research work with VaxHub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Jenner Institute seminar series (30 Sep 2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Jacqueline Vieira presented research work |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Keynote Panel Member - World Vaccine Congress- Barcelona October 17th 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Participation in Keynote Panel: Getting ahead of the curve on pandemic preparedness discussing: -The evolution of COVID and the consequent role of current and next generation vaccines -How can we shorten/lower the epidemic curve rather than responding to and maintaining population immunity? -How can we most efficiently extrapolate the lessons from COVID to other priority pathogens of pandemic potential? -Where are the remaining vulnerabilities in the system and how can we better mitigate these for better pandemic preparedness? Moderated by Prof Isabel Oliver, Chief Scientific Advisor Transition Lead, UK Health Security Agency. with participation by EC, Moderna and CEPI Additionally participated in a vaccine safety discussion on ViTT, myocarditis & pericarditis: what are the next steps? 16th October 2023 and engaged with other Congress participants in attendance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | LIYSF CIC- Sarah Gilbert |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Lecture for students at the 66th LIYSF in 2025 to enable them to explore the science of vaccine development and the global effort behind protecting public health |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/LIYSF/posts/we-are-pleased-to-welcome-professor-sarah-gilbert-to-liysf2025p... |
| Description | Launch event for Vax-Hub Sustainable |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | We held an open event, with the option for attendees to also join remotely, welcoming almost 100 delegates on the day. The event was an opportunity to hear first-hand about the Hub's vision to deliver manufacturing innovations that enable a transformative change towards sustainable and rapidly responsive vaccine manufacture. In addition to hearing about the new Hub, attendees also had the opportunity to learn how industry are tackling the challenges presented by the need for improved manufacturing sustainability with confirmed presentations from AstraZeneca, Croda and Synthace. The event included dynamic opportunities for networking with both academics and other industry partners. The feedback from the event was positive and has led to discussions with multiple organisations who attended and now also are interested in becoming members of the Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Lecturer at ESACT 10th edition (5-9 October 2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Cath Green shared case studies on vectored vaccines and response to pandemic situation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://esact.org/wp-content/uploads/esact_vt-course-program-final_2025.04.02.pdf |
| Description | Lifearc seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Catherine Green gave a talk to Lifearc staff |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | London Festival of Architecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Two-day OpenHouse event at UCL Here East entitled "In situ" where we had a exhibit of artefacts and a poster explaining the work of the CVaxHub in regards to circular economy. The audience was drawn from the general public, and those interested in design and architecture. A diverse range of audience was able to explore our work and discuss the potential for bioremediation integrated into building design. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/events/2024/jun/bartlett-situ |
| Description | Manufacturing of vaccines: Project final Q&A - Newham Collegiate Sixth Form |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Students are undertaking research on vaccine manufacture. This session aided in answering final questions before presentations at UCL. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| Description | Manufacturing of vaccines: Project half way Q&A - Newham Collegiate Sixth Form |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Students are taking part in a group activity to research different types of vaccine technologies. This was a mid project Q&A session |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Manufacturing of vaccines: Project start - Newham Collegiate Sixth Form |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Students were given a presentation on vaccine manufacture; at the end of the presentation, they were invited to take part in a 3-month project to work in groups of ~5 to research a different vaccine technology. This session will be followed up with a Q&A session part way through their research, culminating in January 2026 with presentations of their reports at UCL Biochemical Engineering. This project aims to help students build a robust understanding of vaccines and the role of biochemical engineering in vaccine production, as well as develop theri research, communication and teamwork skills. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Manufacturing of vaccines: Project start - Oaklands School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Students were given a presentation on vaccine manufacture; at the end of the presentation, they were invited to take part in a 3-month project to work in groups of ~5 to research a different vaccine technology. This session will be followed up with a Q&A session part way through their research, culminating in January 2026 with presentations of their reports at UCL Biochemical Engineering. This project aims to help students build a robust understanding of vaccines and the role of biochemical engineering in vaccine production, as well as develop there research, communication and teamwork skills. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Masterclass on vaccine development and manufacture with year 12 Langdon Park School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Since July 2022, Vax-Hub has been collaborating with Langdon Park School with the aim of increasing awareness among young people of vaccine development and production, emphasising the role of biochemical engineering. To achieve so, this project offers practical laboratory experience - complementary to taught material - which is not accessible within traditional school environments. On the 25th of January, Vax-Hub hosted Y12 students from Langdon Park School at UCL Biochemical Engineering. Students attended a masterclass on vaccine development and manufacture, followed by practical laboratory activities using SDS-PAGE, and a tour of the department lab facilities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Medical School Gazette Article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Article for Med School Gazette of sustainable vaccine manufacturing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025,2026 |
| Description | NDM symposium (5 Sep 2024) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Reshma Kailath presented a poster titled 'Adenovirus encapsulation within ionizable lipids' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | NHS Lunch and Learn Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk on vaccine manufacturing for NHS care board nurse practitioners who are part of the vaccine delivery team in Swindon to make them more aware of what goes into vaccine development process so they can be more confident delivering this information to people receiving vaccines |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Oral Presentaion at 19th Vaccine Congress |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of "An Open-Source Platform for Standardizing, Sharing, and Optimizing Workflows" at 19th Vaccine Congress in Kyoto. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Oundle School STEM Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Vaccine and Pandemic Workshops for multiple secondary school age groups across two days in both Oundle and Kettering |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Outreach event at Newham Collegiate Sixth Form Centre and UCL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Participated in an outreach event at Newham Collegiate Sixth Form Centre as part of the VaxHub programme and served as a judge for student group presentations on vaccines, providing feedback and supporting the development of their scientific communication skills. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Oxford Biochemistry Society Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Careers and Science Talks with a focus on VaxHub and Vaccine Manufacturing as well as how to communicate research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Oxford Brookes Science Bazaar 'Vaccine Lab'. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Oxford Brookes Science Bazaar 'Vaccine Lab'. Science festival activities focused on explaining the various key steps for vaccine manufacturing with a focus on Adenovirus. Activities include hands on activities explaining the differences and importance of filtration, clarification and chromatography as well as using real lab equipment (flasks and bioreactos) to explain how we grow adenovirus upstream |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Oxford Brookes Science Bazaar (3 Feb 2024) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Catherine Cherry, together with several other volunteers, worked at a stall with some simple interactive activities highlighting the common processes used in vaccine manufacturing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/events/2023/12/oxford-brookes-science-bazaar-2024 |
| Description | Oxford Open Doors |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Oxford Open Doors is an annual event at the University of Oxford and regularly attended by researchers from Prof Dame Sarah Gilbert's group. At the pop up event members of the public can speak to researchers, engage over research topics and see the research laboratories through guided tours. We specifically shared some of the VaxHub funded research being performed by members of Sarah's group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Oxford University Alumni Network Victoria Dinner Presentation -Melbourne - 22nd September 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Reception and dinner talk given on vaccine development and chatted with members of the public and supporters participating in discussions and answering questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ousv.org/event-5368753 |
| Description | Panel discussion at COP28 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Cath Green was part of a panel at COP28 regarding development of precision medicines at low cost for LIMC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Parliament event during World Immunization Week (joint activity between VaxHub Sustainable and VaxHub Global) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Together with Results UK and the British Society for Immunology, we raised awareness of vaccine equity during World Immunization Week by co-organising a parliamentary event. The event, "Bridging the Gap: Vaccination and Immunisation", brought together MPs, peers, youth parliamentarians, scientists, and advocates to spotlight the theme: "Immunization for All is Humanly Possible." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ucl-steapp_worldimmunisationweek-vaccineswork-globalhealth-ugcPost-73... |
| Description | Participating in an forum discussion organized by the Digital ecosystem for the New European Bauhaus initiative, DigiNEB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participating in an forum discussion through the Digital ecosystem for the New European Bauhaus initiative, DigiNEB, that is coordinated by Delft University of Technology regarding policy recommendations and the creation of a NEB Digital Deployment Roadmap to be elaborated and forwarded to the European Commission. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Participating in an forum discussion organized by the Digital ecosystem for the New European Bauhaus initiative, DigiNEB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participating in an forum discussion through the Digital ecosystem for the New European Bauhaus initiative, DigiNEB, that is coordinated by Delft University of Technology regarding policy recommendations and the creation of a NEB Digital Deployment Roadmap to be elaborated and forwarded to the European Commission. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Participation at Festival of Tomorrow - Swindon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | VaxHub joined forces with the Pandemic Sciences Institute and Jenner Institute from the University of Oxford, the Oxford Vaccine Centre (clinical trials recruitment team) and the NHS BSW ICB (https://bsw.icb.nhs.uk/) to hold a 1 day public information session covering all aspects of vaccines. From discovery science, through manufacture all the way to clinical trials and mass vaccination. People were even offered the opportunity to receive a flu vaccination there and then. The event was organised by VaxHub's Dr Sean Elias accompanied by Ms Reshma Joseph Kailath from the Oxford research team. Drs Salomé Magalhães, Ryan Mellor and Stephen Morris from the UCL Biochemical Engineering based team informed on manufacturing aspects. Many stimulating conversations were had and future scientists enthused. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Participation at Newham Centre for Heath and Care Equity - 1 year on symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Stephen Morris and Anca Tacu attended this event. The Centre brings together people from Newham community, voluntary and faith groups, universities including University College London, University of East London, Queen Mary University London, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, local health organisations including Newham Health Collaborative, North East London Integrated Care System, and community members. With the aims of: To generate actionable insights for how policy and practice can better promote health equity at a local level To enable collaboration between the local authority, NHS, local organisations, communities and academia through partnerships, co-production and capacity building To use learning to inform decision-making in Newham and to disseminate the learning to influence change more widely To ensure communities across Newham are actively involved The original VaxHub was part of the setting up of the Centre in 2023 and this meeting was to highlight activities since then and start new collaborations going forward. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.newham.gov.uk/health-adult-social-care/newham-centre-equity-health-care |
| Description | Participation at the 21st Annual BioProcessUK conference (19 - 21 Nov 2024) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Catherine Green participated in the round table discussions contributing to the BIA vision 2035 document |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.bioindustry.org/events/our-events/bioprocessuk.html |
| Description | Participation in DHSC bi-lateral UK-Belgium visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Cath Green participated in a bi-lateral visit to initiate collaborative efforts in vaccine development, UK - Belgium. A second set of meetings, in the UK, is planned for March 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Participation in Festival of the Girl |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A joint Outreach team from UCL Biochemical Engineering and the Oxford Pandemic Sciences Institute had a fun day at this years Festival of The Girl on Saturday 21st October to help promote better representation of girls in STEM. https://www.festivalofthegirl.com/2023festival A range of hands-on activities demonstrated, the role of filtration processes in vaccine manufacture, the separation of blood cells and effects of arthritis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Participation in Southeast Asia initiative to combat SARS-CoV-2 variants (SEACOVARIANTS) Meeting, Bangkok, Thailand, 28th - 29th January 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of plans for the multidisciplinary research platform - Southeast Asia initiative to combat SARS-CoV-2 variants (SEACOVARIANTS), 2022-2025 in Bangkok, Thailand, 28th - 29th January 2024 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.oucru.org/project/seacovariants/ |
| Description | Policy panel at the UK Synthetic Biology conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We designed and chaired an expert panel session at the UK Synthetic Biology Conference, enabling researchers and policymakers to reflect on the evolution of engineering biology over the past decade and explore how the UK can capitalise on its research strengths to unlock the potential of engineering biology at scale. The panellists included the Head of Engineering Biology from DSIT, as well as Dr Brenda Parker, VaxHub Sustainable Researcher, Dana Heldt from Innovate UK and Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro from Imperial College. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Policy panel during ASEAN mission to the UK on engineering biology (joint activity between VaxHub Sustainable and VaxHub Global) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Building on our contribution to the House of Lords inquiry in Engineering Biology, we participated in the ASEAN mission to the UK on engineering biology in March, led by the British High Commission in Singapore. This strategic engagement aimed to enable alignment on regulatory frameworks, technical standards and innovation pathways between the UK and ASEAN, projected to become the world's fourth largest economy by 2030. We designed and chaired a panel discussion which brought together experts from academia, industry and policy to explore policy enablers for commercialisation and innovation of engineering biology applications identified in the inquiry report. The discussion highlighted the importance of collaboration, knowledge sharing and learning from international experience in driving the engineering biology sector forward. Insights were captured in a report shared with all mission participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Poster presentation at the 18th Liposome research day, Glasgow (26 - 29 June 2024) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Reshma Kailath presented a poster titled 'Adenovirus encapsulation within ionizable lipids'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.phospholipid-research-center.com/event/18th-liposome-research-days-2024/ |
| Description | Presentation at EULiST Student Conference 2024 at Technische Universität Wien |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation/workshop titled "On Biodesign: Urban MYCOskin and Other Wonders of the World of Bio-integrated Design" at the inaugural EULiST Student Conference at Technische Universität Wien. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://eulist.university/2024/07/17/first-eulist-student-conference-in-tu-wien/ |
| Description | Presentation at Google headquarters |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Cath Green gave a presentation on the topic of storytelling in scientific communication: how to effectively communicate complex ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation at Innsbruck Sustainability Week 2024, Universität Innsbruck |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of Bio-Integrated Design Work at the Sustainability Week in Innsbruck organized by the UIBK Green Office, titled "Mycelium & Beyond" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation at Oxford BioMedica |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Cath Green gave a presentation on Pandemic Preparedness. past and future strategies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation at VaxHub Annual meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation about VaxHub Sustainable policy engagement work at the Annual meeting in November. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Presentation at VaxHub joint symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Delivered a talk on the importance of academic-policy engagement at the VaxHub Joint Symposium. The event brought together the expansive VaxHub network and showcased the full breadth of its ambitions, including the VaxHub policy work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation at What's Around Design? International Conference 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presenting work in the realms of bio-integrated design at the What's Around Design? International Conference 2024 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.whatsarounddesign.ismat.pt/ |
| Description | Presentation for DPhil student media training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Cath Green presented a session in a PhD training day on engagement with the media |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation with Q&A on what is Biochemical Engineering and its specific role in vaccine manufacture at Oaklands School Year 10 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Vax-Hub presentation with Q&A on what is Biochemical Engineering and its specific role in vaccine manufacture. With emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of modern STEM subjects and the many diverse career pathways studying STEM opens up. Introduced a research project for the students in vaccine manufacture which will run until March 2024. Culminating in them giving presentations on their work at UCL Biochemical Engineering. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Primary School Vaccine Workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Introduction to vaccines and vaccine design workshops tailored to Y1-6 audiences |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Project presentations at UCL by year 10 Mulberry School for Girls |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Mulberry School Year 10 students had been carrying out a Vax-Hub project on vaccines. This session was to allow them to come to UCL Biochemical Engineering to present their findings as 10 min PowerPoint presentations. Students worked in groups ~5 people. Prizes were awarded for best group and outstanding individual. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Project presentations at UCL by year 10 Oaklands School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Oaklands School Year 10 students had been carrying out a Vax-Hub project on vaccines. This session was to allow them to come to UCL Biochemical Engineering to present their findings as 10 min PowerPoint presentations. Students worked in groups ~3 people. Prizes were awarded for best group and outstanding individual. Lab tours were also given of the UCL Biochemical Engineering Pilot Plant. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Public engagement - Nottingham Science Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Nottingham Science Festival https://nottsfosac.co.uk/public-events/ We supported 4 undergraduate students to create the workshop - 'Let's talk vaccines'. Friday 21-2-25. This included a VR session, making vaccine and virus models. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://nottsfosac.co.uk/public-events/ |
| Description | Q&A session chair at UCL Prize Lecture in Life and Medical Sciences given by Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert 'Vaccine development during and after the pandemic'. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Q&A session chair at UCL Prize Lecture in Life and Medical Sciences given by Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert 'Vaccine development during and after the pandemic'. Event sparked question and discussions from audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Research Poster Showcase for the MBI Vaccine course |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Research Poster Showcase for the MBI Vaccine course, at which a poster for VaxHub Sustainable was presented |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Rotary talk on polio |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | After-dinner speaker at a Rotary Event (Bradford) - polio vaccination |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Roundtable discussion on boosting vaccine uptake |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participated in a roundtable organised by the independent think tank Reform, exploring vaccine uptake - including the role that academics, and community engagement might play. The roundtable discussion has informed a paper on vaccine uptake published in 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://reform.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/The-power-of-prevention-3.pdf |
| Description | STEM Dorado Article/Collaboration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Initial example of a STEM article as part of a proposed long term collaboration with the magazine for repeated contributions from VaxHub members. The idea was this was a template for future contributions and to help the magazine establish a system that makes it easier for academics to contribute. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Scaling Up Scotland Conference 3rd November 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Scaling up Scotland Conference and Networking Event 3rd November 2023. Talk on development of the ChAdOx1 Covid-19 vaccine and networking with entrepreneurs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.thehunterfoundation.co.uk/scaling-up-scotland-major-conference-and-networking-event-laun... |
| Description | School visit at the North Hertfordshire College to teach aseptic handling techniques |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Outreach activity at the North Hertfordshire College aimed at teaching to T-level students aseptic handling techniques |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | School visit from University of Kansas -USA (6 Jun 2024) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Jacqueline Vieira had been involved in a school visit from student's program at University of Kansas, called Biomedical Sciences and Public Health in Western Europe. They aim to visit biomedical and public health organizations, companies, and institutions to explore differences between European and American health systems and learn about developments in the field of public health. The group consist of students studying nursing, molecular biology, and public health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Science and Scepticism Workshop at History of Science Museum (Oxford) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Science and Scepticism Workshop: Students attended for a series of lectures, workshops and a panel discussion combining cutting edge science and the history of vaccination. Sean Elias gave a lecture giving an overview of vaccine manufacturing in Oxford and how this links in with VaxHubs Strategy in the next few years. Jobs in vaccine manufacturing were also highlighted in the panel discussion by one of the apprentice technicians at the Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Science workshop for primary schools with STEM Dorado |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | STEM Dorado, in partnership with VaxHub at UCL, delivered an immersive vaccine science workshop for 30 primary school pupils from 13 schools across London. Hosted by VaxHub at University College London, the workshop introduced pupils in Years 3-6 to the science behind vaccines, including how they are developed, tested, and manufactured. Through hands-on experiments and interactive sessions led by scientists, pupils explored vaccine-making. A tour of the upstream and downstream processing facilities at the @UCL Department of Biochemical Engineering gave participants rare insight into real-world vaccine production. Pupils observed advanced robotic handling systems and state-of-the-art production facilities, offering a glimpse into how scientific research translates into public health impact. The event aimed to inspire the next generation of scientists by providing early exposure to cutting-edge research environments and meaningful engagement with scientific professionals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stem-dorado-ltd_stem-dorado-in-partnership-with-vaxhub-at-activity-74... |
| Description | Seminar for UK Government's Health Sciences and Engineering Network (joint activity between VaxHub Sustainable and VaxHub Global) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We delivered a talk to the UK Government's Health Sciences and Engineering Network as part of their monthly seminar series bringing together policy makers from across DHSC, UKRI, OLS, MHRA, UKHSA and NHS England. Our talk focused on showcasing how the research and policy engagement work led by VaxHub Sustainable and VaxHub Global is contributing to the UK being better prepared for a future pandemic response. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Seminar for UK Government's Health Sciences and Engineering Network (joint activity between VaxHub Sustainable and VaxHub Global) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | We delivered a talk to the UK Government's Health Sciences and Engineering Network as part of their monthly seminar series bringing together policy makers from across DHSC, UKRI, OLS, MHRA, UKHSA and NHS England. Our talk focused on showcasing how the research and policy engagement work led by VaxHub Sustainable and VaxHub Global is is contributing to the UK being better prepared for a future pandemic response. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Soft launch - APPG Vaccination for All (joint activity between VaxHub Global and VaxHub Sustainable) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | We joined the Parliament soft launch of the APPG on Vaccinations for All, which included direct engagement with several MPs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Speaker at ASEAN mission to the UK on engineering biology (joint activity between VaxHub Sustainable and VaxHub Global) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented an overview of VaxHub Sustainable at the ASEAN mission to the UK on Engineering Biology, led by the British High Commission in Singapore. This strategic engagement aimed to enable alignment on regulatory frameworks, technical standards and innovation pathways between the UK and ASEAN, projected to become the world's fourth largest economy by 2030. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Speaker at MIT Vaccines bioprocess development and commercialization workshop (3-5 June 2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Cath Green presented an Academic GMP manufacturing for early phase clinical trials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://vaccinesworkshop.mit.edu/#program |
| Description | St Edwards School (Oxford) Careers Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The focus of this talk was a discussion around 'Careers in Medical Research' with a focus on multidisciplinary, collaborative and atypical careers/careers routes. The VaxHub research model and individual researchers were highlighted as good examples of this futures approach to medical science research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Supporting Women in MDHS (SWiM) Inspiring Stories Covid-19 Vaccine Development 27th September Doherty Institute |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Telling the story of developing a new vaccine from scratch-in less than a year-including the logistical, regulatory, and technical issues involved. Prior to COVID-19, my team designed vaccines against Ebola, Mers and influenza, and used the same vaccine platform technology to create our COVID-19 vaccine. The conversation also covered early career interests and motivations, the development of the vaccine during the pandemic, the field of vaccine research since COVID-19, and how we prepare for the challenges ahead. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://paedacademy.medicine.unimelb.edu.au/events/3505 |
| Description | Symposium at Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD) (9-10 Dec 2024) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Catherine Green had engaged with senior leadership of IPD to drive future collaborative efforts |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.psi.ox.ac.uk/news-and-opinion/new-partnership-to-advance-public-health-and-life-science-... |
| Description | Talk at Royal Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Cath Green gave an overview of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine development, and future pandemic preparedness endeavours. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk at school |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Catherine Green gave a lecture and workshop with 6th form students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk on Vaccine bioprocessing and commercialisation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk given by Dr Stephen Morris to Queen Mary University of London MSc Biotechnology class |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | The International Society for Plant Molecular Farming (ISPMF) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The International Society for Plant Molecular Farming (ISPMF) - invited presentation on VLP vaccines |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | UCL Nucleic Acid Therapeutics Industry-Academia Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Nucleic Acid Therapeutics meeting with colleagues from faculties across UCL and industry representatives, raised awareness of work and new contacts for future collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | UK Pandemic Sciences Network Meeting- 5th-6th September 2023 Liverpool- Panel Member Science Communication in a Pandemic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participation in the UK Pandemic Sciences Network Meeting - From Regional, to National, To Global Resilience, 5th-6th September 2023, The Spine- Liverpool including a panel on Science Communication in a Pandemic with Fergus Walsh of the BBC and discussions with relevant pandemic preparedness scientists, media and officials. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2023/09/08/liverpool-welcomes-uks-top-pandemic-scientists/ |
| Description | UK-Japan workshop on Synthetic Biology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The aim of this Imperial College-organised event with national and international speakers (Japan) was to build research collaborations with Japanese colleagues and to share an overview of each country's national research interests, capabilities, and institutional strengths in synthetic biology. The outcomes of the event will support a UKRI-JST funding application. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Vaccine Study Day at the History of Science Museum, Oxford |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | This event has now been held annually for the past 4 years with Sean Elias one of the principle organisers. Sean spoke about vaccine research and manufacturing as part of a key note talk, helped run a workshop on vaccine confidence and chaired a 'meet the researchers session' focused on varied careers in vaccine research. As the event has evolved the work of VaxHub has increasingly been prominent at the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Vaccines & Biochemical Engineering - Dr Challoner's High School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Workshop and discussion group to introduce importance of engineering in vaccine manufacture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | VaxHub Future Forum on pandemic preparedness (18 Jul 2024) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Catherine Cherry presented a short flash presentation of her research within VaxHub and participated in a panel discussion afterwards. The day event inspired discussions across professionals from different disciplinary |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/steapp/news/2024/aug/new-report-publication-vaxhub-futures-forum-pandemic-prep... |
| Description | VaxHub Futures Forum on Pandemic Preparedness (joint activity between VaxHub Global and VaxHub Sustainable) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | We hosted the VaxHub Futures Forum on Pandemic Preparedness during UCL's Festival of Engineering. The event brought together over 50 participants from academia, government, industry, funding and advisory bodies to showcase the hubs' vaccine manufacturing research and explore potential future scenarios for pandemic preparedness through the Futures Forum methodology, developed by Dr Ine Steenmans. The Futures Forum is an innovative and adaptable knowledge exchange format which uses 'futures thinking' to guide participants through a joint exploration of futures of a particular policy topic. Following the event, we published a report which compiles insights that emerged from the participants' discussions during the VaxHub Futures Forum, as they were asked to place themselves in the year 2030 and to reflect on their hopes, fears and the challenges associated with pandemic preparedness. The key themes stemming from discussions and highlighted in the report include equitable access to vaccine technologies and vaccine manufacturing capabilities; public health systems resilience; knowledge exchange, interdisciplinarity and collaboration; and public engagement and trust in science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/steapp/news/2024/aug/new-report-publication-vaxhub-futures-forum-pandemic-prep... |
| Description | VaxHub Joint Symposium - September 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This Joint VaxHub Sustainable and Global marked the first occasion on which our expansive global network came together, showcasing the full breadth of our ambitions and collaborative efforts. The event provided an opportunity to present a comprehensive understanding of our goals and to highlight the significant strides we have made and plan to make in the fields of sustainable vaccine development for pandemic preparedness and enhanced vaccine manufacturing for Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). Delegates were able to: · Gain topical insights from keynote speakers including from Andrew Pollard, Director, Oxford Vaccine Group on "Current and future needs in paediatric vaccine development and deployment", and Tarit K. Mukhopadhyay, Vice President, Merck Infectious Disease and Vaccines Discovery on "Sustainable Vaccine Development: The Next Chapter of Innovation". · Hear about developments in vaccine delivery and access from and Robin Cohen, aVaxziPen, Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director and RNA-based vaccinnes and treatments in Latin America from Patricia Neves, Scientific Leader of RNA Platform Implementation and Products Development, Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz. · Hear from VaxHub Sustainable and VaxHub Global researchers about their planned work and progress to date. · Through networking activities and company presentations, develop a greater understanding of the work of industry colleagues addressing the challenges relating to sustainable and rapid responsive vaccine manufacture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | VaxHub T-level programme with North Hertfordshire College 2024 -25 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | VaxHub T-level programme with North Hertfordshire College 2024 -25 Background. Since 2022 VaxHub has been developing an active educational programme with NHC including - theory and practical classes held at NHC and UCL Dept of Biochemical engineering. In 2024 -25 we will be trailing a programme of partnering with the college to offer Employer set projects as part of their T-Level Applied Sciences programme. T - Levels. T Levels are an alternative to A levels and apprenticeships, giving young people the technical and practical skills needed to be an asset in the workplace. They combine classroom learning with a substantial industry placement. With approximately 20% of the programme being spent on an Industry placement, T Levels give students a unique opportunity to help develop new talent in your industry, and get young people work-ready. Vaxhub will offer placements for up to 12 students during 2024 - 25. This moves us from extra-curricular to an active curriculum partner Programme December 2024 - A 3hr introductory workshop at NHC January 2025 - A 3hr practical workshop at NHC on Basic Aseptic Handling April 2025 - 10-day practical course on cell culture held at UCL Biochemical Engineering in partnership with the Resilience Programme June - July 2025 - 10-day practical Bioprocessing course at UCL Biochemical Engineering July - August 2025 - Students assigned to VaxHub research groups across UCL for 2 - 3-week placements. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | VaxHub at Festival of the Girl 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Science isn't just for labs-it's for everyone. Through VaxHub Outreach, we're bringing that message to the Festival of the Girl 2025. With fun, hands-on activities, we'll show young girls how vaccines are made, highlighting the many roles involved in making vaccines, especially that of engineers. We aim to inspire confidence that young girls can have an important role STEM, all whilst having fun too! |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Visit North Hertfordshire College to teach aseptic handling techniques |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Outreach activity at the North Hertfordshire College aiming at teaching T-level students about aseptic techniques for vaccine development |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Workshop Design Collaboration with Oxford Uni Brazil Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Pilot for co-creation project working with Oxford Uni Brazil Society to design a pandemic/vaccine workshop tailored for a Brazilian audience. Focus on local opinions, concerns and practises in Brazil. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Workshop for London STEM Teachers Conferance |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Held workshop as part of the London STEM Teachers Conference on activities from Vax-Hub Outreach to raise awareness of role on engineering in vaccine manufacture. 20 STEM teachers were given a 60 min workshop, including information on the Vax-Hub schools outreach program, the role of engineering in vaccine manufacture and a tour of the UCL Biochemical Engineering pilot plant laboratories. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Workshop on Vaccine manufacture at NHC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Stephen Morris and Sheena Doshi gave a Workshop on vaccine manufacture at North Hertfordshire College to T-level students as a kick off to this years 45 day work experience program being offered by VaxHub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | mRNA 3rd Scientific Colloquium on vaccine access and equity on the African continent - Keynote address Assessing Impact of access to mRNA vaccines in LMICs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | mRNA 3rd Scientific Colloquium on vaccine access and equity on the African continent meeting hosted by Afrigen Biologics 27th November 2023 - Keynote address Assessing Impact of access to mRNA vaccines in LMICs. Followed by questions and discussions with participating scientists, policy makers and industrialists. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.afrigen.co.za/2023/11/29/mmrna-scientific-colloquium-on-vaccine-access-and-equity-on-the... |