Inovio expects to finish recruiting coronavirus vaccine volunteers by end of April, CEO says
most important thing needed to allow the market to bounce backDr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in March he expects a vaccine could be"It's possible," Kim said in the interview, "especially if you have a platform that's shown to be safe and if you have tested similar approaches before against other pathogens, like we have.
Inovio became the second U.S. biotech firm to launch a Covid-19 vaccine phase one study. Inovio's study began in early April at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine and the Center for Pharmaceutical Research in Kansas City, Missouri, after it received Food and Drug Administration clearance. Inovio said it would give volunteers two doses of INO-4800 four weeks apart. The company expects to receive initial data from the trials in late summer.
Inovio's study is backed by a $5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other funding from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, or CEPI, and the Department of Defense.VIDEO
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