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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