Scientists at Imperial College London will start the first clinical trials of a potential Covid-19 vaccine this week on 300 volunteers
Imperial College London will receive more than $56.5 million in backing from UK government and philanthropists for the trial.
When injected, it instructs muscle cells to produce virus proteins to protect against future infection. In animal tests, the vaccine was shown to be safe and showed "encouraging signs of an effective immune response", Shattock's team said in a statement. That should in turn trigger an immune response so that the body can fight off any future Covid-19 infection.Around 300 healthy volunteers will receive two doses of the vaccine in the initial human trials to test whether it is safe in people and whether it produces an effective immune response against Covid-19.The race to develop Covid-19 vaccinesThere are no guarantees any will work but there’s increasing hope that at least some could be ready by the end of the year.
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