Vaccinology (tools and technologies)

The STAR IDAZ IRC roadmap for development of candidate vaccines outlines the key steps in developing candidate vaccines, based on a number of common criteria that need to be considered for all vaccine types.

The generic vaccine roadmap has been used to develop disease-specific vaccine roadmaps, these can be found under the relevant priority topics.

Following discussions within STAR IDAZ IRC on the importance of platform vaccine technologies, ‘Applications of platform technologies in veterinary vaccinology and the benefits for One Health’ (Entrican & Francis, 2022) was published in Vaccine, covering the key technological underpin vaccine design, defining vaccine platform technologies and setting the veterinary vaccinology and One Health context. In November 2023, a number of funders and networks came together to organize a vaccinology workshop at the 13th International Veterinary Immunology Symposium (IVIS) to discuss the opportunities and challenges for adopting novel platform technologies to develop next-generation vaccines against bacteria in veterinary species. ‘Opportunities and challenges for the adoption of novel platform technologies to develop veterinary bacterial vaccines’ (Entrican et al., 2025) summarised the presentations and discussions from the workshop.