HHS quickens pace of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine candidate
The Department of Health and Human Services today said it will speed the development and manufacturing of vaccines to prevent COVID-19, starting a candidate from Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Research & Development.
The agency’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority will support non-clinical studies and a Phase 1 clinical trial of Janssen’s COVID-19 investigational vaccine, Ad26 SARS-CoV-2. The Phase 1 clinical trial is set to begin no later than fall of 2020 with the goal of making a COVID-19 vaccine available for emergency use in the United States in early 2021.
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