FluGen, Inc. announced today that the company’s novel M2 deleted, single replication (M2SR) influenza vaccine was safe and well tolerated, generated a dose-response effect for both humoral and mucosal antibodies, and produced robust T-cell responses in a first-in-human phase 1a trial of 96 healthy volunteers ages 18-49 years.
“The strong safety and immunogenicity data we see in this study are consistent with a vaccine that could provide broad and durable protection against influenza,” said Robert Belshe, M.D., one of the study’s lead authors, and the Diana and J. Joseph Adorjan Endowed Professor of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Emeritus, at Saint Louis University.
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