UC Irvine scientists working on universal vaccine
Автор: CBS 8 San Diego
Загружено: 2021-01-22
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UC Irvine scientists are working on developing a vaccine that would attack all strains of COVID-19 as well as a potential breakthrough that would solve many of the problems related to distributing the medicine, a UCI professor on the project said Friday. Lbachir BenMohamed, a UCI School of Medicine professor, said his team is developing what they envision will be a vaccine that could work on all strains in the SARS-CoV-2 family.
The UCI vaccine would be a "backup" to the vaccines used now and anticipated to be approved shortly, BenMohamed said. "Our vaccine is not only focused on spike protein," to provoke an immune response, like Pfizer's and Moderna's, the professor said. There are two dozen other proteins that can prompt an immune response, he said.
"It is focused on a lot of other proteins that are expressed by SARS-CoV-2, which is the virus that causes COVID-19," he said.
The study is now in pre-clinical trials with mice, and will generate multiple vaccines.
Dr. BenMohamed and his team will then pick the one most effective on Coronavirus, with small-scale human trials beginning as soon as this summer. Those would then expand to larger-scale human trials later this year.
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