Jenner Institute


The Jenner Institute is a research institute on the Old Road Campus in Headington, east Oxford, England. It was formed in November 2005 through a partnership between the University of Oxford and the UK Institute for Animal Health. It is associated with the Nuffield Department of Medicine, in the Medical Sciences Division of Oxford University. The institute receives charitable support from the Jenner Vaccine Foundation.
The institute is led by Prof. Adrian Hill. The institute develops vaccines and carries out clinical trials for diseases including malaria, tuberculosis, ebola, and MERS-Coronavirus.
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COVID-19

In 2020, the institute successfully developed the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, in a project backed by private companies including Oxford Sciences Innovation, Google Ventures, and Sequoia Capital, among others. When developed, the UK government backed trials, purchased 100million doses, and encouraged Oxford to work with AstraZeneca, a company based in Europe, instead of Merck & Co., a US-based company; while the US gave of government funding in return for 300 million doses.
It collaborated with Italy's Advent Srl on the development and Germany's Merck Group on the manufacture of the COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccinologist Dame Sarah Gilbert was one of the leading scientists involved in the development.
The institute is named after the English physician and immunization pioneer Edward Jenner, who was a major contributor to the development of the smallpox vaccine.

History

Previously, the Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research was an independent research institute named after Edward Jenner, the inventor of vaccination. It was co-located with the Compton Laboratory of the Institute for Animal Health on a campus in the village of Compton in Berkshire. After occupying temporary laboratory space at the Institute for Animal Health from 1996, the institute moved to a newly completed laboratory building in 1998.

Funding

Funding of the institute continued until October 2005, when it was relaunched replacing the four founding funding partners with the University of Oxford and the Institute for Animal Health.