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We are pleased to announce the successful completion of a clinical client project for Memo Therapeutics AG (MTx), Switzerland. The project included a Phase I clinical trial with AntiBKV, an antibody targeting BK polyomavirus (BKV) infection in renal transplant patients. VPM oversaw the clinical trial and performed translational project management, whereas the Australian cooperation partner and contract research organization (CRO) Accelagen managed the trial, yielding positive results, with all endpoints met. Click here for more information.

The course of respiratory infectious disease pandemics, will strongly depend on how quickly medications or specific vaccines against the pathogens are available. Researchers wanted to investigate in a phase III trial whether the vaccine candidate VPM1002 is also protective against an infection with the novel SARS-CoV-2. The large-scale study has been carried out at several hospitals in Germany and included older people that are susceptible to severe course of the disease. Read about the results here!

We are pleased to announce that our VPM1002 trial, where VPM1002 was given as a prophylaxis against severe respiratory infectious diseases including COVID-19 in the elderly, has successfully been published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. We could show that VPM1002 compared to placebo is reducing the days with severe respiratory disease! Read more!

We are very proud to be able to welcome more than 100 participants at TWINCORE in Hannover!. Read more.

An article about our tuberculosis (TB) vaccine has been published in the “Frankfurter Rundschau”. For more info click here.

A clinical trial in South Africa has now shown that the new vaccine candidate VPM1002, developed by Max Planck researcher Stefan H.E. Kaufmann and his team, is equally safe for newborns with and without HIV exposure and has fewer side effects compared to BCG. Please click here to read the publication.

We are pleased to announce that a major milestone in the pivotal phase III trial (trial name: priMe) of the novel tuberculosis vaccine VPM1002 has been achieved with the end of recruitment of all participants.

VPM was invited guest speaker at the OPTIMMUNIZE 2022 which was held as webinar on April 21st. Watch the video here!

We are pleased that after the long COVID lockdown we were also able to visit the East African sites to touch base and to discuss the conduct of the trial and potential improvements. We thank all centres for their warm welcome and their hospitality during our stay and hope to meet more often in person again.

We have welcome the delegation from Ghana on February, 18 and had a fruitful conversation on vaccine development.