Similar to Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine, which began Phase 1 testing in March, Inovio’s vaccine is also derived from genetic material. However, Inovio’s vaccine -- named INO-4800 -- is derived from DNA, not messenger RNA, which makes up Moderna’s vaccine.“We anticipate rapid enrolment of this initial study,” Dr Pablo Tebas, an infectious disease specialist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the study’s principal investigator, said in the news release. “There has been tremendous interest in this vaccine among people who want to do what they can do to help protect the greater public from this pandemic as soon as possible.”
The college said early findings show that in animals, the vaccine does have a positive effect.“We are looking for volunteers to take part in our trial in June -- they will be the first volunteers to get the vaccine,” Professor Robin Shattock told BBC radio. “And we’ll be studying what doses give us the best type of immune response and are free from showing any sort of tolerability issues.”
“There’s always an element of risk in any clinical trial, but we try to remove those elements and minimize them as much as possible.”
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Germany says it has approved the first clinical vaccine trial
From CNN's Stephanie Halasz
The first clinical trial for a Covid-19 vaccine has been approved in Germany, the country's Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedical Drugs has said.
The potential vaccine is being developed by biotech company BioNTech in Mainz, Germany.
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An exterior view of biopharmaceutical company BioNTech in Mainz, Germany, pictured on March 18. Ronald Wittek/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
The Paul Ehrlich Institute, the Federal Agency, says it was able to complete the approval process in four days.
Another human vaccine trial is set to get underway at Oxford University in the UK on Thursday, the British health secretary confirmed this week.
And a separate trial at London's Imperial College is also in the pipeline for June, with researchers asking for volunteers.
陈薇将军打了中国乃至全世界第一针疫苗,美国疫苗,那必须死人,信不过的。不是陈薇的,不能打呀!