MONTREAL -- Canada's first homegrown vaccine for COVID-19 is showing promising antibody results in hundreds of participants in a Phase 2 trial and could be ready for a final authorization request this summer.
Nathalie Landry, the executive vice-president for scientific and medical affairs for Medicago, said the vaccine appears to produce 10 times the antibodies as are seen in people who have had COVID-19. A Phase 3 trial for Medicago with 30,000 volunteers is already underway in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, and will expand to Brazil this week.
The Phase 3 trial is the final step before Health Canada can decide whether to approve the vaccine or not, something Landry hopes can happen this summer.
If approved, the Medicago vaccine is likely to be the first COVID-19 shot produced in Canada in any way. The bulk material will mainly be manufactured at Medicago's North Carolina facility, but the vials are filled and finished with the GlaxoSmithKline pandemic adjuvant in Canada.
MONTREAL -- Canada's first homegrown vaccine for COVID-19 is showing promising antibody results in hundreds of participants in a Phase 2 trial and could be ready for a final authorization request this summer.
Nathalie Landry, the executive vice-president for scientific and medical affairs for Medicago, said the vaccine appears to produce 10 times the antibodies as are seen in people who have had COVID-19.
A Phase 3 trial for Medicago with 30,000 volunteers is already underway in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, and will expand to Brazil this week.
The Phase 3 trial is the final step before Health Canada can decide whether to approve the vaccine or not, something Landry hopes can happen this summer.
If approved, the Medicago vaccine is likely to be the first COVID-19 shot produced in Canada in any way. The bulk material will mainly be manufactured at Medicago's North Carolina facility, but the vials are filled and finished with the GlaxoSmithKline pandemic adjuvant in Canada.