GSK on track to file for Shingrix approval this year

15 September 2016

GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK) edged up 1.48% to 1,620 pence by close of trading on Tuesday, after the company released encouraging results from a Phase III study of its investigational shingles vaccine Shingrix yesterday.

GSK released detailed results from a randomized Phase III study (ZOE-70) of its investigational shingles vaccine Shingrix showing 90% efficacy in adults aged 70 years and older that is maintained for at least four years. The results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

The study, from which headline results were reported in October 2015, showed that the two-dose candidate shingles vaccine had 90% efficacy (95% confidence interval: 84%-94%) compared to placebo in people over 70 years old. Vaccine efficacy was maintained across the various age groups included in the study, ranging between 90% in people aged 70-79 years (95% confidence interval: 83%-94%) and 89% in those aged 80 years and above(95% confidence interval: 745-96%).

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