Moderna to Start Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Its Coronavirus Vaccine Candidate in July
Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) is currently running a phase 2 clinical trial for mRNA-1273, its investigational vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. This trial will enroll 600 healthy participants, each of whom will receive two doses of the vaccine, 28 days apart. The trial is testing the vaccine's safety, reactogenicity (the dosage that begins to cause expected side effects), and immunogenicity (its ability to trigger an immune response in the body). However, while phase 2 is still underway, Moderna has already finalized the protocol for a phase 3 study of mRNA-1273, which it says will start in July.
Moderna will collaborate with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct this phase 3 trial, which will enroll about 30,000 participants in the U.S. The primary endpoint for the trial will be "the prevention of symptomatic COVID-19 disease"; secondary endpoints include the prevention of infection by SARS-CoV-2 and the prevention of severe cases of COVID-19.
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