Coronavirus: Clinical Trials
(asked on 21st April 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many COVID-19 vaccine trials are underway presently in the UK.
This question was answered on 28th April 2020
The Government is currently funding two United Kingdom vaccine candidates; one at the University of Oxford led by Professor Sarah Gilbert and one at Imperial College London led by Professor Robin Shattock.
Imperial’s vaccine candidate is in pre-clinical testing and the University of Oxford started Phase 1 (human safety) trials on Thursday 23 April. Oxford have recruited healthy volunteers aged between 18 and 55 to take part in these trials.