Update on a new clinical Phase Ib trial for the RH5.1 blood-stage malaria vaccine
Hørsholm, Denmark, July 21, 2021 – ExpreS2ion Biotech Holding AB’s affiliate ExpreS2ion Biotechnologies ApS (“ExpreS2ion") announces that University of Oxford has initiated the VAC080-study, a Phase Ib clinical trial to assess the safety and immunogenicity of the blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum malaria vaccine candidate RH5.1/Matrix-M in adults and infants living in Tanzania.The RH5.1 blood-stage malaria protein vaccine has previously been administered to 67 healthy UK adults, with various doses, and was found to be safe and well tolerated. The study is estimated to be completed in H2