RE: No IG trading29 Jan 2021 16:34
It's here, just makes it more official in my book, the worm turns next week chaps, good luck orphans.
The Human Challenge Programme, part of the government’s Vaccine Taskforce, is a partnership between the government, the NHS, academia and the private sector to establish human challenge studies for COVID-19 in the UK.
The programme is funded by Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) through the Vaccine Taskforce and will be delivered through a partnership between government, hVIVO, Imperial College London, and The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
This partnership will explore the use of human challenge studies to improve and accelerate the development of vaccines and treatments against COVID-19 and will create a UK-based infrastructure for future human challenge trials supporting the world’s biotech and pharmaceutical industries.
The first stage of this project will explore the feasibility of exposing healthy volunteers to COVID-19. In this initial phase, called the Virus Characterisation Study, the aim will be to discover the smallest amount of virus it takes to cause a person to develop COVID-19. The study will be sponsored by Imperial College London and conducted by hVIVO at the Royal Free Hospital’s specialist research unit in London, under the scrutiny of hVIVO’s highly trained scientists and medics. If the COVID-19 research is approved by regulators, it will begin early next year with results expected by May 2021.
hVIVO will be expanding its Clinical Operations in London to facilitate this work, learn more about openings at www.hvivo.com/careers hVIVO’s, state of the art facility at Queen Mary’s Bioenterprise Centre, London, is booked to maximum capacity until Summer 2021 and will continue to be used to deliver the Company’s traditional challenge study contracts, particularly respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
Once the characterisation study is completed, this Human Challenge Study model can be utilised to conduct COVID-19 Human Challenge Studies from mid-2021 subject to regulatory approvals.