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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian Health Ministry has authorized phase 1 and 2 clinical trials of EpiVacCorona-N, one more coronavirus vaccine developed by the Vector research center, according to the ministry s register. An open study of the safety, tolerability, reactogenicity and immunising power of the EpiVacCorona-N peptide antigen-based vaccine for preventing COVID, involving volunteers aged 18-60 (phase 1-2), the register read.
The trials started on April 8 and are set to end on September 30.
The EpiVacCorona vaccine, developed by the Vector State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology, is a peptide-based drug that relies on a promising synthetic platform. It consists of artificially synthesised short fragments of viral proteins - peptides, through which the immune system learns how to recognise and then neutralise the virus.
Volunteers aged 18 to 60 will participate in the trials
MOSCOW, April 9. /TASS/. The Russian Health Ministry has issued a permit to conduct Phase One and Two clinical trials of the EpiVacCorona-N vaccine against the coronavirus developed by the Vector State Research Center, according to the Ministry’s state registry of trial permits.
Volunteers aged 18 to 60 will participate in the trials, the entry stated. The beginning [of trials] is April 8, 2021, the completion - September 30, 2021, the notice specified.
The trials will involve 300 volunteers and will be conducted at the medical facility of the Federal Medical Biological Agency in the Novosibirsk Region.