The Department of Health and Social Care said on October 8, 2026, that it will fund eight vaccine projects. The department says the projects target Ebola, plague, Marburg, Lassa fever, Nipah virus, chikungunya, and Mayaro.
The department says the amount is 33.2 million pounds. The awards are supported by the UK Vaccine Network and delivered through Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation. Five of the eight projects are funded as official development assistance, which the department says supports the economic development and welfare of eligible developing countries. The department says the same program previously supported development of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
The department says the new awards cover vaccines, clinical trials, and technologies meant to make vaccine design and manufacture faster, and to make doses affordable in countries at greatest risk. The notice describes funding for development, testing, and manufacture. It does not report a completed trial.
The notice says Ebola has an average case-fatality rate of around 50 percent. It says Marburg outbreaks were reported in Rwanda in 2024 and in Tanzania in 2025, and that there is still no approved Marburg vaccine or antiviral treatment. It refers to reports of a suspected pneumonic plague case linked to a laboratory worker's death in Russia's Irkutsk region, with nearly 200 contacts placed under precautionary medical observation. It also says an Ebola outbreak is ongoing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The department says the money is intended to help researchers develop, test, and deploy vaccines faster when a new threat appears, including work in low- and middle-income countries. The notice does not give a dose, a trial phase, or a result for any of the eight projects.
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