BactiVax (anti-Bacterial Innovative Vaccines) is an innovative European Training Network that will provide high-level training in vaccinology to 15 high-achieving, creative Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), and equip them with a wide range of transferrable skills for thriving careers in vaccine research within academia and industry. BactiVax will focus on developing novel vaccines to tackle the huge challenge of antimicrobial-resistant human pathogens that cause chronic, life-threatening respiratory and/or systemic infections. This network comprises 14 Principal Investigators with expertise in vaccinology, proteomics, medicine, microbiology, biochemistry, immunology, structural biology, medicinal, peptide and glycochemistry from 8 European countries and two companies which will collectively train ESRs in entrepreneurship, commercial vaccine development and bioprocessing.

Participant organisations and principal investigators

University College Dublin (UCD, Dublin, Ireland) –  Assoc. Prof. Siobhán McClean  (2 positions)

National Research Council, Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging (CNR-IBB, Naples, Italy) – Dr. Rita Berisio

Queens University Belfast (QUB, Belfast, UK) – Prof. Miguel Valvano

CIC bioGUNE | Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (Bilbao, Spain) –  Prof. Juan Anguita

CIC bioGUNE | Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (Bilbao, Spain) –  Prof. Jesús Jiménez-Barbero

St. George’s University of London (SGUL, London, UK) – Dr. Rajko Reljic

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU, Munich, Germany) –  Prof. Johannes Huebner

University of Milano Bicocca (UNIMIB, Milan, Italy) – Prof. Francesco Peri

Imperial College London (London, UK) – Prof. Rosemary Boyton and Prof. Danny Altmann (one position)

École  Polytechnique  Fédérale  de  Lausanne  (EPFL,  Lausanne,  Switzerland)  –   Prof. Christian Heinis

Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) – Dr. Kata Horváti

LIONEX GmBH (Braunschweig, Germany) – Prof. Mahavir Singh

ImmunXperts (Gosselies, Belgium) – Dr. Séverine Giltaire