Published: Jul 19, 2021 By Gail Dutton
Martin Moore, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder of Meissa Vaccines, pictured above.
Meissa Vaccines’ intranasal vaccine for COVID-19 equals the protection afforded by existing vaccines in the same class of subjects after only a single dose, according to data presented this week at the American Society of Virology annual meeting. The caveat is that the data is from preclinical, non-human primate studies.
The data – also published on bioRxiv – indicates that the MV-014-212 vaccine-induced mucosal (nasal IgA) antibodies in the upper respiratory tract and systemic (serum neutralizing and binding IgG antibodies) in African green monkeys and provided protection when challenged by the wild-type SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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