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Category: Bharat Biotech International

Posted on July 5, 2020July 5, 2020

Completion of COVID-19 vaccine trials could take at least six-nine months, says Soumya Swaminathan

A realistic (but very optimistic) timeline from the start of Phase-1 to the completion of Phase-3 could be about six to nine months (if all goes exactly according to plan),…

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Posted on July 4, 2020July 4, 2020

A day after ICMR faces flak, it reverses stand and says fast-tracking was only to cut red tape

A day after serious concerns were raised, ICMR has reversed its stand. It says its decision to fast-track the trial process was only to cut the red-tape and not to…

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Posted on July 3, 2020July 16, 2020

ICMR threatens principal investigators to complete COVID-19 vaccine trial by August 15

On July 2, ICMR had sent a threatening letter sent to principal investigators at 12 sites to complete the Phase-1/phase-2 trail of India’s first indigenous COVID-19 vaccine by August 15.…

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Posted on July 2, 2020

Why developing, manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines in India becomes important

With the pandemic raging across many countries and the demand for a safe, efficacious vaccine being huge, availability of an indigenous vaccine will mean guaranteed availability for Indians, while a…

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Posted on December 6, 2019February 3, 2020

Bharat Biotech’s typhoid conjugate vaccine offers 82% protection

Bharat Biotech’s typhoid conjugate vaccine shows nearly 82% efficacy at 12 months in a Phase-3 trail carried out in Nepal. It can be be given to babies as young as…

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Posted on April 18, 2017April 20, 2017

Zika vaccine Phase I trial to begin next month in India

Bharat Biotech International Ltd in Hyderabad will start a Phase I clinical trial of Zika virus vaccine (MR 766) in two centres in India next month. The inactivated  vaccine being…

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Posted on April 18, 2017April 18, 2017

Bharat Biotech’s Zika virus vaccine confers 100% protection in mice

The Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech’s killed (inactivated) Zika virus vaccine using an African strain (MR 766) has shown 100% efficacy against mortality and disease in animal studies. A ‘killed virus vaccine’…

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Posted on January 16, 2016June 28, 2016

Indigenous vaccine against diarrhoea virus ‘safe’

A Phase III randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of 116E rotavirus vaccine undertaken in infants at three centres in India was found to be safe. It had modest efficacy of 56.4…

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