COVID-19 Vaccine Race Will Need To Eliminate Development ‘Dead Space’

As Pfizer begins human trials, CBER’s Marks eyes nine-month target for a vaccine and urges at-risk manufacturing once a candidate reaches Phase III.

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The development of a COVID-19 vaccine potentially could take as little as nine months by removing the “dead space” in the development process and manufacturing at risk, the US Food and Drug Administration’s Peter Marks said during an Axios webinar on 4 May.

US government scientists and politicians have suggested a vaccine against the novel coronavirus could be available within 12-18 months, an...

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