With less than a month to go before we congregate for the World Vaccine Congress in Washington in April, we are pleased to share the organisations and individuals who have progressed to the final shortlist for the VIE Awards.  

After successful rounds of submissions and voting we now present the shortlist. The names below have been contacted to fill in a submission form for review by the Scientific Advisory Board, which contributes to the final decision. This will be announced on the evening of the 4th April at the Awards Dinner.  

Good luck to all shortlisted; we look forward to celebrating your achievements at the Congress and Dinner.  

Best Clinical Trial Company

Benchmark Research 
Cedar Health Research 
CTI Clinical Research Centre 
Flourish Research 
PanAmerican Clinical Research 
Rochester Clinical Research 
Velocity/Meridian Clinical Research

Best Clinical Trial Network

Accelerated Enrollment Solutions (AES) 
Accellacare 
Alliance for Multispecialty Research (AMR) 
CenExel 
DM Clinical Research 
Pratia 
Tekton Research 

Best Central/Speciality Laboratory

Charles River Labs 
ICON Labs 
Labcorp Drug Development 
Nexelis, a Q² Solutions Company 
PPD Clinical Research business of Thermo Fisher Scientific 
Viroclinics-DDL, a Cerba Research Company

Best Contract Research Organsation

FHI Clinical 
ICON 
IQVIA 
Nexelis, a Q² Solutions Company 
Parexel 
PPD Clinical Research business of Thermo Fisher Scientific 
Syneos Health

Best production/process development

3M 
Bharat Biotech 
Luminex 
MilliporeSigma 
Moderna 
VGXI

Best new vaccine technology/platform

BioNTech – mRNA platform 
GSK’s RSV vaccine candidate 
Janssen’s RSV vaccine candidate 
Moderna – RNA 
NOVAVAX – RECOMBINANT PROTEIN-BASED VACCINE WITH MATRIX-M™ ADJUVANT 
Pfizer’s RSV vaccine candidate 
Vaxcyte, Inc. –XpressCF  ™ cell-free protein synthesis platform

Best Pharma

AstraZeneca 
GlaxoSmithKline 
Janssen 
Merck 
Moderna 
Pfizer 
Sanofi Pasteur

Best logistics, technology, and cold chain delivery

DHL 
Marken 
Sanaria 
Siemens 
UPS 
Viroclinics-DDL, a Cerba Research Company 
World Courier

Best academic/research team

Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland on Malaria – Dr Miriam K. Laufer 
City of Hope – COVID-19, Dr Don Diamond 
Institute for RNA Innovation, University of Pennsylvania – Dr Drew Weissman & Dr Katie Kariko 
La Jolla Institute’s work on COVID-19 T-cell responses – Dr Alessandro Sette & Dr Shane Crotty 
Precision Vaccines Program, Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children’s Hospital, Professor, Harvard Medical School – Dr Ofer Levy 
Stanford University, Dr Bali Pulendran’s lab for pioneering systems biological approaches to assess mechanisms and correlates of vaccine responses 
Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development – Dr Peter Hotez & Dr Maria Elena Bottazzi 
UW Medicine’s research in preventative breast cancer vaccine – Dr Nora Disis