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HIV vaccine being developed by Johnson & Johnson fails clinical trial

STAT News

Yet another experimental HIV vaccine has failed. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases reported Wednesday that a Phase 3 clinical trial of a vaccine was stopped because the vaccine was ineffective at preventing HIV infection. Read the rest…

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Pfizer's Covid Vaccine and Allergies: How Concerned Should You Be?

NY Times

British health officials recommended that people with severe allergy reactions not be given the vaccine. Such reactions to vaccines are rare, even in people who have allergies to food or bee stings.

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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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Intravacc gets NIAID contract for intranasal gonorrhoea vaccine development

Pharmaceutical Technology

from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) unit National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to develop a prophylactic intranasal vaccine against Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG). Leveraging its outer membrane vesicles (OMV) platform technology, Intravacc will develop the vaccine.

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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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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. BacTRL Gene Therapy Platform.

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US launches clinical trial for pandemic preparation  

Drug Discovery World

An early-stage clinical trial has been launched in the US investigating a vaccine against Nipah virus infection. . The clinical trial has been launched by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to evaluate an investigational vaccine to prevent infection with Nipah virus.