Human Vaccines
Volume 6, Issue 12  December 2010
http://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/vaccines/toc/volume/6/issue/11/

Meeting Reports
A key for successful development of flu vaccines: Public-private collaboration – the Barcelona vaccine forum, Phacilitate, the Fira Palace Barcelona Spain, 21-23 June, 2010, the meeting report
Cristina Niculescu and Jean-Marc Balloul

Abstract
At the Barcelona Vaccine Forum, Phacilitate 2010 numerous plenary sessions, round table discussions, and workshops were dedicated to discussions surrounding one major topic, i.e. ensuring flu vaccine availability in a pandemic situation. High level speakers and participants coming from different horizons (WHO, US-FDA, EU-EMA, vaccine industry, etc ) shared their experience encountered during the influenza pandemic from 2009, the strategies and actions undertook for accelerating pandemic flu vaccines development and approval, the cooperation and coordination activities deployed to overcome the shortage for such vaccine, encountered especially in developing countries. During other sessions, the speakers highlighted the role of innovative partnering, business models or funding opportunities in enabling vaccine market development on a global scale. Finally, novel approaches and technologies for vaccines production that respond better to the growing worldwide demand for influenza vaccine and the achievements with the development of an “universal” vaccine that could guard against all seasonal and pandemic influenza strains were presented during the Barcelona Forum.