Bharat Biotech US partner Ocugen files for clinical trials of Covaxin
Malvern: Ocugen, Inc., has announced that the company has submitted an Investigational New Drug application (IND) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) to evaluate the COVID-19 vaccine candidate, BBV152, known as COVAXIN outside the United States.
COVAXIN is a whole-virion inactivated COVID-19 investigational vaccine candidate that uses the same vero cell manufacturing platform that has been used in the production of polio vaccines for decades.
The Phase 3 trial proposed in the IND is designed to establish whether the immune response experienced by participants in a completed Phase 3 efficacy trial in India is similar to that observed in a demographically representative, healthy adult population in the U.S. who either have not been vaccinated for COVID-19 or who already received two doses of an mRNA vaccine at least six months earlier.
"We are very excited to take this next step in the development of COVAXIN, which we hope will bring us closer to introducing a different type of COVID-19 vaccine to the American public," said Dr. Shankar Musunuri, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and Co-Founder of Ocugen. "We are hopeful that the study conducted under the IND, if allowed to proceed, will help demonstrate that the data from India will be applicable to the U.S. population."
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