Big Pharma bets on University of Oxford vaccine after monkey tests – By Mike Moffitt (SF Gate) / April 30 2020
First results of human trials expected in June
It worked on monkeys, so researchers at the University of Oxford have high hopes that their coronavirus vaccine will also work on humans.
But they don’t expect preliminary results until the middle of June, John Bell, a regius professor of medicine at Oxford, told BBC Radio on Thursday.
Human trials — the first in Europe for a vaccine — began April 23, following successful tests on rhesus macaque monkeys in late March.
The results were so promising that British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca agreed to partner with the Oxford team to help ramp up production of the hAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine once the human trials are completed, according to the BBC.
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