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Vaccine R&D

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R21 / Rvx21

University of Oxford

Malaria

Type

Route

This vaccine is a combination of the licensed R21/Matrix-M P. falciparum vaccine and Rvx21 (a P. vivax version of R21/Matrix-M) developed by the University of Oxford, UK.
The Rvx21 vaccine is a virus-like particle with broad strain coverage of P. vivax circumsporozoite protein. It is designed and manufactured similarly to R21/Matrix-M vaccine.

Status

Target

Virus-like-particles (VLPs)

Intramuscular

Clinical development

Projects

Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax (Pre-erythrocytic stage)

Funders

BMBF-Kfw, European Union

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