Vaccine Research Center

Vaccine Research Center

Headquarters of Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Agency overview
Formed	1997; 27 years ago (1997)
Agency executive	John R. Mascola
Parent department	National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Parent agency	National Institutes of Health
Website	www.niaid.nih.gov/about/vrc

The Vaccine Research Center (VRC), is an intramural division of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The mission of the VRC is to discover and develop both vaccines and antibody-based products that target infectious diseases.^[1]

The broad research portfolio of the VRC includes basic, clinical, and translational^{[clarification needed]} research into vaccines for HIV, Ebola, Marburg, and RSV, among other viruses,^[2] and therapeutic antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 (the virus responsible for COVID-19) and other pathogens.^[3]