Volunteers invited to participate in vaccine trials
Islamabad
April 24, 2021
Islamabad : The Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University (SZABMU) is the first public sector university in Islamabad to become a DRAP-approved site for Phase III clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccine. SZABMU-PIMS is now becoming part of a multicentre phase III study for COVID-19 vaccine ZF2001. These trials have been approved by National Bioethics Committee (NBC) Pakistan and Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP).
Prof. Dr. Tanwir Khaliq, Vice Chancellor of SZAMBU, expressed these views during a briefing given to Secretary Health Aamir Ashraf Khwaja when he visited the university here on Friday.
Daily Times
Federal Secretary Health Aamir Ashraf Khwaja visited Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University (SZABMU), PIMS.
He was briefed by Prof. Dr. Tanwir Khaliq, Vice Chancellor, that SZABMU is the public sector university in Islamabad to become a DRAP approved site for Phase III clinical trials of Covid-19 vaccine. SZABMU-PIMS is now becoming a part of a multicentre phase III study for COVID-19 vaccine ZF2001. These trials have been approved by National Bioethics Committee (NBC) Pakistan and Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP).
Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, medical researchers all over the world are rushing into the research and development of vaccines. ZF2001 vaccine is co-developed by The Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMCAS) and Anhui Zhifei Longcom Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd. It is a protein subunit based vaccine targeting different variants of COVID-19 as well. It is expected to prevent respiratory diseases caused by no
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