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Temperature-stable tuberculosis vaccine safe, prompts immune response in first-in-human trial

Medical Xpress

A clinical trial testing a freeze-dried, temperature-stable experimental tuberculosis (TB) vaccine in healthy adults found that it was safe and stimulated both antibodies and responses from the cellular arm of the immune system. A non-temperature stable form of the candidate previously had been tested in several clinical trials.

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The Lancet Respiratory Medicine: Clinical trial finds inhaled immune response protein increases odds of recovery for hospitalised COVID-19 patients

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Inhaled delivery of a formulation of a key protein involved in the immune response – interferon beta-1a – to hospitalised COVID-19 patients in the UK reduced the odds that they would develop severe disease or die from SARS CoV-2 infection.

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

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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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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. With each new universal influenza vaccine candidate and clinical trial, we take another step closer to that goal,” said Acting NIAID Director Hugh Auchincloss.

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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. The trial will enrol up to 50 healthy volunteers aged 18 to 49.

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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). This trial will evaluate the safety of the vaccine and generate efficacy data. Intravacc has received a contract worth $14.6m

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The Lancet: Phase 2 trial of Oxford COVID-19 vaccine in healthy older adults finds it is safe and provokes immune response

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Older adults are at a disproportionate risk of severe COVID-19 disease, so it is essential that any vaccine adopted for use against SARS-CoV-2 is effective in this group Peer-reviewed / Randomised Controlled Trial / People **There will be a UK Science Media Centre briefing at 10.15am UK time on Thursday 19th November about this study. […].