Valneva vaccine vials
Valneva SE (NSDQ:VALN) announced promising preliminary lab results involving recipients of its inactivated VLA2001 COVID-19 vaccine.
In a pseudovirus neutralization assay involving sera from 30 volunteers in the Phase 1/2 trial VLA2001-201, all samples had neutralizing antibodies against the ancestral virus and the delta variant. In addition, 87% (26 samples) had neutralizing antibodies to omicron.
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“We continue to believe that VLA2001 could be an important component of the fight against COVID-19, and Valneva remains fully committed to bringing VLA2001 to people who need it as soon as we can,” said Dr. Juan Carlos Jaramillo, chief medical officer of Valneva, in a statement.
Valneva said it was sending data on an ongoing basis to several regulatory agencies, including the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and…