Scancell picks lead COVID-19 vaccine candidate
18th December 2020
UK-based Scancell Holdings has selected a lead COVID-19 vaccine candidate – SN14 – to advance through further development and into clinical trials.
Scancell’s DNA vaccines target dendritic cells to stimulate high avidity T cells that identify and destroy diseased cells.
This technology has been successfully applied with Scancell’s lead ImmunoBody cancer vaccine, SCIB1, which was safely administered to patients with malignant melanoma in a phase I/II clinical trial with “outstanding five-year survival,” according to the firm.
Scancell aims to use this technology platform to produce a simple, safe, cost-effective and scalable vaccine that induces both durable T cell responses and virus neutralising antibodies (VNAbs) to provide long-lasting immunity against COVID-19.