On September 5, 2017, just 9 months after the launch of CEPI, they put a call out for proposals with the aim to identify new vaccine platform technologies that would enable rapid vaccine development, elicit rapid onset of immunity, and whose production can be scaled-up quickly to respond to the next pandemic disease, soon to be called Disease X. Funding from B&M Gates Foundation and NIAID.
On October 15, 2019 , CEPI launches a “new call for innovative platform technologies to rapidly respond to Disease X” on the back of the September 2019 GPMB “A World At Risk” report!