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Gates-Backed Coronavirus Vaccine Enters Human Testing
Solange Reyner
4-9-20
A new COVID-19 vaccine backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has entered phase 1 clinical human testing, reports Tech Crunch.
Gates earlier this week said his foundation will make billions of dollars available for manufacturing the most promising vaccines to combat the coronavirus, which has infected more than 1.5 million people worldwide and killed more than 88,000.
Inovio Pharmaceuticals on Monday received regulatory clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to begin testing its vaccine in humans. The Gates Foundation, along with other nonprofits, have poured funding into the project.
Inovio's candidate, called INO-4800, is the second potential...
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