Proposals to Accelerate Novel Vaccine Development for Children.

Competing Interests: POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST: Sallie Permar has received grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and collaborates with Merck Vaccines and Moderna on sponsored research programs on cytomegalovirus vaccines. She provides individual consulting services to Moderna, Merck, Dynavax, and Pfizer. Kathryn Edwards has received grant funding from the NIH and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is a consultant to Bionet and IBM. She is also a member of the Data Safety and Monitoring Board for Sanofi, X-4 Pharma, Seqirus, Moderna, Pfizer, Merck, and Roche. Buddy Creech is a principal investigator for NIH-funded studies of the Moderna coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine (adults and children) and Janssen COVID-19 vaccine and a member of a Data and Safety Monitoring Board for Astellas and has recently served as a consultant to Altimmune and Horizon Pharma (unrelated). He also receives royalties from UpToDate. Emmanuel Walter is a principal investigator for Pfizer-funded studies of COVID-19 vaccine (adults and children) and an NIH-funded study of the Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine (adults), a coinvestigator for a vaccine study funded by Moderna, and a member of an advisory board for Vaxcyte.