NIMS to begin human trials of Covid-19 vaccine soon
Sribala.Vadlapatla@timesgroup.com
Hyderabad: 04.06.2020
The Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) in Hyderabad is among 12 other centres across the country to begin human trials for a coronavirus vaccine soon.
The vaccine trial proposal was placed before the ethics committee on Friday at NIMS after the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) added the hospital cum-research-facility to the list of centres.
“Any such trial needs permission from the hospital's ethics committee, and as a first step, we did that and expecting the nod in a day or two, before we start the trials,” a top official from the health department told TOI.
The vaccine to be developed by Bharat Biotech will be applied intravenously to volunteers. The vaccine trial will continue for six months and only healthy people in the age group between 22-50 years will be selected for human trials, irrespective of gender.
Institutes with clinical pharmacology wings and experience of handling similar human trials, have been selected for the human trials.
NIMS in the last 12 years has the experience of conducting about a dozen human trials, including that of the successful meningococcal vaccine.
“There are only six or seven very experienced institutes in the entire country having done phase 1 clinical trials,” said a doctor at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences.
Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences is among 12 other centres from across the country to begin human trials for a coronavirus vaccine soon
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