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$42,990,046

Department of Health and Human Services·National Institutes of Health

to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

biotechactive
ACTION DATE·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_UM1AI148452_075
Award description

VANDERBILT VACCINE AND TREATMENT EVALUATION UNIT

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Funds Vanderbilt's vaccine and treatment evaluation unit to conduct clinical research and testing of vaccines and therapeutics.

Sub-sectors
vaccine-developmentclinical-evaluationnih-research
Why this matters

Vaccine evaluation capacity is critical infrastructure for pandemic preparedness and rapid response to emerging infectious diseases.

Supply-chain signal

Signals demand for clinical trial infrastructure, laboratory equipment, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing partnerships.

U.S.–China competition angle

Vaccine development and evaluation capability is a strategic asset in global health competition and pandemic response leadership.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002070.

Period of performance
Start
2020-07-14
End
2026-11-30
Status
activein 197 days
Sources

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