Takeda takes its Zika vaccine candidate into clinical testing

1 December 2017

Tokyo’s Takeda Pharmaceutical (TSE: 4502) is progressing its Zika vaccine candidate TAK-426 into Phase I trials, backed by funding from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HSS), the company has announced.

A trial involving 240 male and female subjects in the USA between the ages of 18 and 49 will assess the safety and immunogenicity at several dose levels.

Both Takeda and French drugmaker Sanofi (Euronext: SAN) have been developing Zika vaccines using inactivated forms of the virus.

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