Gates Foundation TB shot to undergo $550m late-stage test
About a quarter of the world’s population is infected with TB, and 1.6m people died of the disease in 2021, the vast majority of them in low- and middle-income countries.
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About a quarter of the world’s population is infected with TB, and 1.6m people died of the disease in 2021, the vast majority of them in low- and middle-income countries.
If the next steps are successful, M72 would be the first new vaccine in a century to target tuberculosis, a disease that killed 1.6 million people in 2021.
Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced funding, to advance a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate, M72/AS01E (M72), through a Phase III clinical trial.
Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced funding to advance a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate, M72/AS01E (M72), through a Phase III clinical trial. If proven effective, M72 could potentially become the first new vaccine to help prevent pulmonary TB, a form of active TB, in more than 100 years. Wellcome and the
If proven effective, M72 could potentially become the first new vaccine to help prevent pulmonary TB, a form of active TB, in more than 100 years. | Pulse Nigeria