Mission STATEMENT

At the Emory Vaccine Center, our mission is to improve human health by conducting fundamental and clinical research that leads to the
development of effective vaccines against infectious diseases of
global importance.

The Emory Vaccine Center represents one of the largest academic vaccine centers in the world, and is renowned for its expertise in cellular immunity and immune memory.

This expertise leads to the creation of new technologies for the prevention of emerging infectious diseases. Established in 1996 with support from Emory University and the Georgia Research Alliance, the Emory Vaccine Center has including 26 regular faculty, 9 affiliate faculty, over 100 post doctoral fellows and graduate students, plus laboratory, clinical, and administrative staff.

Since 2001, Emory Vaccine Center faculty have reported their research findings in 400+ scholarly articles published in elite peer-reviewed scientific journals such as Nature and Science.

During the first ten years of the Emory Vaccine Center, our faculty have been prolific inventors and have aggressively documented their intellectual property:

• 43 invention disclosures have been recorded since 1996;
• Pending patent applications have been filed for 18 of these;
• 14 patents have been issued; and
• 10 patents have been exclusively licensed with an option to license another.