GSK/Medicago COVID-19 Vaccine Looks Like Also-Ran But Antibody Shows Value Against Omicron

Sotrovimab’s Sustained Efficacy Confirmed

GSK looks unlikely to be a major player in COVID-19 vaccines, even in boosters, but its partnership with Vir could pay off handsomely.

Vir Biotechnology offices San Francisco
GSK's alliance with San Francisco-based Vir could become its most successful COVID-19 partnership • Source: Alamy

GlaxoSmithKline has been playing catch-up in COVID-19 in 2021 and while partnerships in vaccines and therapeutics have just produced two encouraging results, only its antibody drug looks likely to make a big impact.

Partner Medicago has just announced results from a Phase II/III placebo-controlled study of its plant-derived COVID-19 vaccine in combination with GSK’s AS03 pandemic adjuvant, showing 75

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