IMI launches call for proposals with focus on flu vaccines

IMI is launching a new call for proposals for a project that will develop tools to aid the development of new, more effective flu vaccines.  The 5-year project will have a budget of about £11 million, half of which will come from the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), and half of which will come from in kind contributions by the large pharmaceutical companies taking part in the project. Every year, pharmaceutical companies develop vaccines designed to combat the strains of flu that are most likely to be circulating in the population the following winter. Vaccines are also developed in