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Coronavirus vaccine developer urges federal funding for ‘promising’ candidate after UQ failure
The developer of a coronavirus vaccine candidate being trialled in Adelaide is urging the Federal Government to divert funding to the project, after another potential vaccine was abandoned.
Key points:
- Flinders University’s Nikolai Petrovsky has been working on a vaccine for months
- He says the failure of the UQ candidate provides an opportunity to divert funding to his project
- Phase 3 trials are expected to begin early next year
Clinical trials of the vaccine being developed by the University of Queensland (UQ) and biotech company CSL have been scrapped after trial participants returned false positive HIV test results.
The first human trials of Flinders University medical researcher Nikolai Petrovsky’s vaccine, called COVAX-19, began in…
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