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Marburg virus vaccine shows promising results in first-in-human study

Medical Xpress

A newly published paper in The Lancet shows that an experimental vaccine against Marburg virus (MARV) was safe and induced an immune response in a small, first-in-human clinical trial.

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mRNA universal influenza vaccine enters clinical trials

Drug Discovery World

A clinical trial of an experimental universal influenza vaccine developed by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) Vaccine Research Center (VRC) has begun enrolling volunteers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

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Symvivo’s Oral COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Clinical Trials

XTalks

Canadian clinical-stage biotech company Symvivo Corporation has developed an oral COVID-19 vaccine that entered clinical trials this week. The first healthy volunteer was dosed with the vaccine in Australia as part of the bacTRL-Spike COVID-19 Phase I clinical trial.

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NIH begins clinical trial evaluating second COVID-19 booster shots in adults

The Pharma Data

A Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating various additional COVID-19 booster shots has begun enrolling adult participants in the United States. “This trial will help us understand if we can use prototype and variant vaccines alone or together to shift immune responses to cover existing and emerging COVID-19 variants.”

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New Research Shows IBS Symptoms May be Caused by Gut Infections

XTalks

Researchers at KU Leuven in Belgium have found a potential mechanism underlying irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) that involves activation of immune cells primed by past gastrointestinal infections. However, IBS patients do not have allergies to any given foods, nor any gastrointestinal conditions, such as celiac disease.

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Nanoparticle universal flu vaccine enters Phase I trials

Drug Discovery World

Enrolment in a Phase I trial of a new investigational universal influenza vaccine candidate has begun at the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, US. The vaccine candidate under investigation, FluMos-v2, was designed by researchers at NIAID’s Vaccine Research Center (VRC).

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Kaiser Permanente Joins Late-Stage Trial for Pfizer and BioNTech’s Lead COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

XTalks

The company announced that it commenced the Phase III clinical trial to evaluate the investigational COVID-19 vaccine this week. It is also dedicated to fostering innovations in care, clinical research, health education and the support of community health.