Centralized Laboratory Network publications and other resources

Recent Press releases

Charles River Laboratories joins CEPI's global vaccine assessment network | 7 December 2023

The CEPI centralized laboratory network for COVID-19 will help prepare for future outbreaks | 19 September 2023

Laboratory network to test vaccines against epidemic and pandemic diseases expands presence in Global South – CEPI | 30 May 2023

Webinars

Expanding the CEPI Centralized Laboratory Network - Webinar for the labs | 7 - 9 December 2021 | Presentation Material | Video Recording | Q&A | Transcript (in English)

Webinar 'Standardization of Immune Response Assays to COVID-19 Vaccines: A Year’s Experience Transferring Assays to a Global Network of Labs | 31 August 2021 |
Presentation Material | Report | Recording Part 1 - Lessons Learned | Recording Part 2 - The Future

Publications

Future directions in combating outbreaks at CEPI Centralized Laboratory Network | Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics 21(1):2561458 | 2025

Development and Validation of a Standardized Pseudotyped Virus-Based Neutralization Assay for Assessment of Anti-Nipah Virus Neutralizing Activity in Candidate Nipah Vaccines | Vaccines 13(7):753 | July 2025

Monitoring immunological COVID-19 vaccine clinical testing across the CEPI Centralized Laboratory Network | Frontiers in Immunology Volume 16 | 3 April 2025

Preparedness and priority research to tackle the mpox outbreak response | Nature Medicine 31, 14–15 | 2025

Standardized immunological assays for assessing COVID-19 vaccines by the CEPI-Centralized Laboratory Network | npj Vaccines 9, 128 | 16 July 2024

Clinical assays for vaccine development: the role of CEPI centralized laboratory network | Vaccine Insights 3(4), 113–117 | 25 June 2024

Driving consistency: CEPI-Centralized Laboratory Network's conversion factor initiative for SARS-CoV-2 clinical assays used for efficacy assessment of COVID vaccines | Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics Volume 20 | 6 May 2024

Unifying global efforts by CEPI’s centralized laboratory network | Frontiers in Immunolology Volume 15 | 11 April 2024

Standardised quantitative assays for anti-SARS-CoV-2 immune response used in vaccine clinical trials by the CEPI Centralized Laboratory Network: a qualification analysis | The Lancet Microbe Volume 5, Issue 3 |  January 2024

The CEPI centralized laboratory network for COVID-19 will help prepare for future outbreaks | Nature Medicine 29, 2684–2685 | 19 September 2023

The CEPI centralised laboratory network: supporting COVID-19 vaccine development | THE LANCET Volume 397 | 5 Jun 2021