"As an update to the 3 FDA approved vaccine developers to conduct clinical trials in the Philippines, Janssen Pharmaceuticals has already started with their trials," Science Undersecretary Rowena Cristina Guevara told reporters in a virtual press briefing.
Guevarra said she could not disclose the number of participants involved in the clinical trial of Janssen, the pharmaceutical arm of US health-care company Johnson & Johnson.Courtesy of DOHIn late December, the Food and Drug Administration approved Janssen as the first pharmaceutical firm to conduct clinical trials in the country.
The adenovirus carries a gene from the coronavirus into human cells, which then produce the coronavirus spike protein, but not the coronavirus itself. This spike protein is what primes the immune system to fight off a subsequent infection by the virus.
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