--- description: Johnson & Johnson and GlaxoSmithKline, two of the world's largest drugmakers, are already working together to make vaccine doses title: Drugmakers Collaborate to Make Millions of Ebola Vaccine Doses image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88e0a6421c4cc8bc/69876232a988ca18236a9f7c/ebola-vaccine.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Health](/section/health/) ## Health Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [ebola](/tag/ebola/) ## ebola Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Drugmakers Working Together to Mass Produce Ebola Vaccine by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 22, 2014 2:31 PM CUT  Ruth Atkins has her blood taken before receiving her injection of the ebola vaccine called Chimp Adenovirus type 3 (ChAd3), she is the first healthy UK volunteer to receive an ebola vaccine, at the Oxford Vaccine Group Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine (CCVTM) on September 17, 2014 in Oxford, England. Ruth Atkins has her blood taken before receiving her injection of the ebola vaccine called Chimp Adenovirus type 3 (ChAd3), she is the first healthy UK volunteer to receive an ebola vaccine, at the Oxford Vaccine Group Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine (CCVTM) on September 17, 2014 in Oxford, England.WPA Pool—Getty Images by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 22, 2014 2:31 PM CUT The world’s leading drugmakers are collaborating to develop [millions of doses of an Ebola vaccine](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/22/us-health-ebola-johnson-johnson-idUSKCN0IB0N420141022?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm%5Fsource=twitter "undefined") for use next year, aiming to prevent West Africans and frontline healthcare workers from contracting the deadly virus. Johnson & Johnson said Wednesday that its goal is to produce 1 million doses of a two-step vaccine next year, and is already collaborating with Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline, [Reuters reports](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/22/us-health-ebola-johnson-johnson-idUSKCN0IB0N420141022?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm%5Fsource=twitter "undefined"). The two companies could combine their vaccines and support each other’s work, while other companies are volunteering to provide production capacity. “I have spoken with (GlaxoSmithKline chief executive) Andrew Witty over the past few days several times as colleagues on how we are going to solve this,” Johnson & Johnson U.S. research chief Stoffels told reporters. “It might even be that we have to combine their vaccine with ours.” The World Health Organization wants tens of thousands of people in West Africa, including frontline healthcare workers, to start receiving Ebola vaccines in January as part of clinical trials. \[[_Reuters_](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/22/us-health-ebola-johnson-johnson-idUSKCN0IB0N420141022?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm%5Fsource=twitter "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3531274/ebola-vaccine-drugmakers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3531274/ebola-vaccine-drugmakers/"},"headline":"Drugmakers Working Together to Mass Produce Ebola Vaccine","datePublished":"2014-10-22T14:31:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:56:27.905Z","description":"Johnson & Johnson and GlaxoSmithKline, two of the world's largest drugmakers, are already working together to make vaccine doses","url":"https://time.com/3531274/ebola-vaccine-drugmakers/","keywords":["ebola"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88e0a6421c4cc8bc/69876232a988ca18236a9f7c/ebola-vaccine.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88e0a6421c4cc8bc/69876232a988ca18236a9f7c/ebola-vaccine.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Britons Test New Ebola Vaccine","caption":"Britons Test New Ebola Vaccine","creditText":"WPA Pool—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3531274/ebola-vaccine-drugmakers/","name":"Drugmakers Working Together to Mass Produce Ebola Vaccine"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Ebola Questions You're Wondering About","description":"TIME Health Reporter Alexandra Sifferlin explains why there's no cure for Ebola, how infected patients are treated, and more common questions about the disease.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/9QwqrSi9/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-08-07T17:31:26.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/9QwqrSi9.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3531274/ebola-vaccine-drugmakers/","duration":"PT2M2S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3531274/ebola-vaccine-drugmakers/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```