Merel J Smit, Adam F Sander, Maud B P A Ariaans, Cyrielle Fougeroux, Constanze Heinzel, Rolf Fendel, Meral Esen, Peter G Kremsner, Rob Ter Heine, Heiman F Wertheim, Manja Idorn, Søren Riis Paludan, Alexander P Underwood, Alekxander Binderup, Santseharay Ramirez, Jens Bukh, Max Soegaard, Sayit M Erdogan, Tobias Gustavsson, Stine Clemmensen, Thor G Theander, Ali Salanti, Mette Hamborg, Willem A de Jongh, Matthew B B McCall, Morten A Nielsen, Benjamin G Mordmüller
BACKGROUND: Capsid virus-like particles (cVLP) have proven safe and immunogenic and can be a versatile platform to counter pandemics. We aimed to clinically test a modular cVLP COVID-19 vaccine in individuals who were naive to SARS-CoV-2. METHODS: In this phase 1, single-centre, dose-escalation, adjuvant-selection, open-label clinical trial, we recruited participants at the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and sequentially assigned them to seven groups...
January 18, 2023: The Lancet. Microbe