Global InformationRapid Deployment Vaccine Collaborative information
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| Abbreviation | RaDVaC |
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| Formation | March 2020 |
| Type | 501(c)(3) organization |
| Purpose | To design, produce, test, and share open-source vaccine research in an effort to accelerate and strengthen COVID-19 vaccine development |
Key people | Preston Estep, Alexander Hoekstra, Don Wang, Ranjan Ahuja, Brian M. Delaney, George Church |
| Website | radvac |
The Rapid Deployment Vaccine Collaborative (RaDVaC), is a non-profit, collaborative, open-source vaccine research organization founded in March 2020 by Preston Estep and colleagues from various fields of expertise, motivated to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic through rapid, adaptable, transparent, and accessible vaccine development.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] The members of RaDVaC contend that even the accelerated vaccine approvals, such as the FDA's Emergency Use Authorization, does not make vaccines available quickly enough.[10] The core group has published a series of white papers online,[11] detailing both the technical principles of and protocols for their research vaccine formulas, as well as dedicated materials[12] and protocols[13] pages. All of the organization's published work has been released under Creative Commons non-commercial licenses, including those contributing to the Open COVID Pledge.[14] Multiple individuals involved with the project have engaged in self-experimentation to assess vaccine safety and efficacy. As of January 2022, the organization has developed and published twelve iterations of experimental intranasal, multivalent, multi-epitope peptide vaccine formulas, and according to the RaDVaC website, by early 2021 hundreds of individuals had self-administered one or more doses of the vaccines described by the group.
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- ^ "White paper – RaDVaC". Retrieved 2020-09-29.
- ^ "Materials and equipment – RaDVaC". Retrieved 2020-09-29.
- ^ "Protocols for making and taking the vaccine – RaDVaC". Archived from the original on 2020-10-24. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
- ^ "Partners". Open Covid Pledge. Retrieved 2020-09-29.