Novavax teases Covid-19 vaccine trial design as it kicks off UK study — US to follow next month
Ahead of a US trial set to begin in October, Novavax has begun the first Phase III study for its Covid-19 vaccine candidate in the UK.
Add a smaller safety trial planned in South Africa, and you have three late-stage shots on goal for the Maryland-based biotech, which (like frontrunner Moderna) has never brought a vaccine to the market. But that didn’t stop Operation Warp Speed from betting $1.6 billion on its recombinant protein nanoparticle approach.
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