Vaccine Research Center
Headquarters of Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland, United States | |
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 1997 |
| Agency executive | |
| Parent department | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases |
| Parent agency | National Institutes of Health |
| Website | www |
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The Vaccine Research Center (VRC), is an intramural division of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The mission of the VRC is to discover and develop both vaccines and antibody-based products that target infectious diseases.
The broad research portfolio of the VRC includes basic, clinical, and translational research into vaccines for HIV, Ebola, Marburg, and RSV, among other viruses, and therapeutic antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 (the virus responsible for COVID-19) and other pathogens.