Valneva Completes Recruitment of Elderly Participants in Phase 3 Trial of its Inactivated COVID-19 Vaccine - Seite 2

About VLA2001-304
Trial VLA2001-304 is expected to enroll two cohorts. Cohort 1 includes 300 volunteers aged 56 years and older in an open-label manner in order to generate safety and immunogenicity data for VLA2001 in this age group. Cohort 2 of the trial is expected to include approximately 600 volunteers aged 12 years and older in order to compare immunogenicity data of Valneva’s original COVID-19 vaccine candidate, VLA2001, to an additional COVID-19 vaccine candidate, VLA2101, based on a variant strain to be confirmed. In both cohorts, vaccinations will be administered in a two-dose immunization schedule 28 days apart. The trial will be conducted at approximately 10 trial sites in New Zealand. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04956224

About Valneva SE
Valneva is a specialty vaccine company focused on the development and commercialization of prophylactic vaccines for infectious diseases with significant unmet medical need. The Company takes a highly specialized and targeted approach to vaccine development, beginning with the identification of deadly and debilitating infectious diseases that lack a prophylactic vaccine solution and for which there are limited therapeutic treatment options. It then applies its deep understanding of vaccine science, including its expertise across multiple vaccine modalities, as well as its established vaccine development capabilities, to develop prophylactic vaccines to address these diseases. The Company has leveraged its expertise and capabilities both to successfully commercialize two vaccines and to rapidly advance a broad range of vaccine candidates into and through the clinic, including candidates against Lyme disease, COVID-19 and the chikungunya virus.

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