Coronavirus Notebook: UK To Start World’s First COVID-19 Challenge Study, Janssen Files Its Vaccine For EU Approval

The UK’s clinical trials ethics body has given the go-ahead to the world’s first COVID-19 human challenge study in an effort to better understand how the virus works in the body and help to develop new vaccines and treatments for the disease.

The initial virus characterization study is expected to begin within the next few weeks. It will recruit up to 90 “carefully selected, health adult volunteers” aged 18-30 years who will...