ISIDOReOpen Call for Proposals: Free Access to ISIDORe facilities

To prevent future pandemics, and advance the development of the appropriate medical countermeasures, the ISIDORe preparedness programme includes a list of priority preparedness pathogens clustered in four calls for proposals to support research on the epidemic-prone pathogens.

ISIDORe preparedness calls for proposals are multidisciplinary and open to all scientists (EU and international) from both academia and the private sector

To prevent future pandemics, and advance the development of the appropriate medical countermeasures, the ISIDORe preparedness programme includes a list of priority preparedness pathogens clustered in four calls for proposals to support research on the epidemic-prone pathogens such as:

• Risk-Group 4 pathogens
  (Ebola virus, Marburg virus, Nipah virus, Hendra virus, Lassa virus, “New world arenaviruses”, CCHF virus)
• Respiratory Pathogens
  (zoonotic betacoronaviruses, Influenza A, Y. pestis, M. tuberculosis/bovis, C. burnetii)
• Vector-borne Pathogens
  (Rift valley fever virus, Zika virus, Chikungunya virus, West Nile virus, Dengue virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, Yellow fever virus, Tick-borne encephalitis virus, Plasmodium, B. burgdorferi, Leishmania)
• Other pathogens with epidemic potential
  (pathogen X, Orthopoxviruses, Non polio enteroviruses, Polio enteroviruses)

Proposals must require access to at least one of the ISIDORe services and be aligned with at least one of the sections presented on the calls webpage.