Ebola Vaccine

Ebola vaccine with Vical technology produces immune responses in trial volunteers

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, March 21st, 2006

Vical, Inc., (VICL) announced that an Ebola vaccine candidate administered using Vical's DNA delivery technology was safe and well-tolerated, and produced both antibody and T-cell Ebola-specific responses in all healthy volunteers who received the full 3 doses of vaccine.

The phase I, randomized, placebo-controlled, dose-escalation study, the first human trial for any Ebola vaccine, was sponsored by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), and conducted at the NIH Clinical Center. The data were presented at the American Society for Microbiology 2006 Biodefense Research meeting in Washington, DC, by...

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