# Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units (VTEU)

> **NIH NIH UM1** · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · 2021 · $389,005

## Abstract

This proposal is for continuation of support for a Vaccine Treatment and Evaluation Unit (VTEU)
at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and is in response to RFA-AI-18-046. The BCM VTEU will
serve as the focal point for clinical research within the Infectious Diseases Clinical Research
Consortium (IDCRC), composed of the VTEUs, Leadership Group (LG) and the National
Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The BCM team consists of investigators,
administrators, nurses, physician's assistants (PAs), pharmacists, laboratory technicians and
support personnel who are highly qualified to perform research to better understand, treat,
prevent and control infectious diseases (ID), to perform focused epidemiological studies, and to
respond to public health emergencies. The BCM VTEU investigators will utilize their clinical
experience and communications/interactions with the larger community of research experts to
identify and bring forth clinical research concepts for discussion and review within the IDCRC. In
their role within the LG and as directed by the LG policies, the BCM investigators will assist in
reviewing and prioritizing all submitted concepts, and then participate in the design and
development of approved concepts into protocols for implementation within the VTEU network.
During the process of developing a protocol, the BCM VTEU investigators will assess the
suitability of the BCM site to perform the study, and/or will help identify additional sites using an
existing large network of collaborators, if directed by the LG. If the BCM VTEU is selected as a
study site, the BCM VTEU team will implement the study per Good Clinical Practices and
applicable regulations, and assist with data analysis and reporting/publication. BCM
investigators will leverage their collaborative network to identify and onboard additional sites
needed to conduct large scale studies, and provide geographical and population diversity to
meet NIAID's priority research area of emerging ID.
The project's Specific Aims are:
 1. Conduct clinical research addressing clinical vaccine development (Phases 1-4 clinical
 trials), human experimental infections (influenza and enteric viruses), and evaluations in
 patients with respiratory, gastrointestinal and sexually transmitted infections;
 2. Provide infrastructure and capabilities for rapid expansion to evaluate
 vaccines/therapeutics for pathogens of public health importance; and
 3. Provide mentoring to junior investigators with interest in vaccines & ID clinical research.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10404792
- **Project number:** 3UM1AI148575-02S6
- **Recipient organization:** BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
- **Principal Investigator:** HANA M EL SAHLY
- **Activity code:** UM1 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $389,005
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2021-05-20 → 2022-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10404792

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10404792, Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units (VTEU) (3UM1AI148575-02S6). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-21 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10404792. Licensed CC0.

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