Innovative Vector Control Consortium

The Innovative Vector Control Consortium is a consortium of five leading academic institutions. The IVCC's mission statement is "to improve health by enabling partnerships for the accelerated development and delivery of new products and tools that increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the control of insects which transmit disease." It is led by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and includes Colorado State University, University of California at Davis, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the South African Medical Research Council. It has received funding of $50.7 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.