Bharat Biotech's Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin was on Tuesday recommended by an expert panel for phase II/III clinical trial on those aged between two to 18 years, official sources said
Says the company would like to recover the costs incurred in clinical trials, and other things and reinvest the money into R&D to be ready for future pandemics
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Expert panel recommends emergency use authorisation
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Progressive Medicos and Scientists Forum said the Clinical Trial (PMSF) Phase 3 data should be evaluated in a transparent manner as and when available for India for both vaccines
More than 5,000 people have been given both shots of the vaccine; efficacy data around March
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Company to initiate trials with around 30,000 volunteers
An expert panel in the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation that met on Wednesday to consider emergency use authorisation applications will reconvene on Jan 1 to deliberate on the matter.
Covaxin, being developed in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research and the National Institute of Virology, is now undergoing phase-3 trials
The discrepancy, reported for the first time by Reuters, centres on the regimen administered to a smaller group of volunteers in the late-stage trials, of half a dose followed by a full dose
The ethics committee has seven members, including a chairperson who has to be from outside the institution where the trial is being conducted.
Pfizer has not yet applied for holding clinical trials on Indian volunteers
The trial, which started at the city''s ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED), was inaugurated by state Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar
The press release did not specify as to how long the human trials are likely to take and by when the vaccine would be ready for use
The SEC had on October 5 asked the firm to re-apply stating it will have to conduct both phase 2 and 3 clinical trials and cannot directly hold phase 3 trial for the vaccine in India
Good momentum in US and domestic sales, along with Covid-19 treatment portfolio is already driving analysts to upgrade earnings estimates
On the issue of how the government plans to roll out the Covid-19 vaccine, he said that it is anticipated that supplies of vaccines would be available in limited quantities in the beginning
Health Secy says a vaccine should be available in first quarter of next year if everything goes according to plan