Vaccine development companies FluGen and Bharat Biotech have partnered with the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UWMadison) to develop and evaluate a Covid-19 vaccine candidate, CoroFlu.
Every year, scientists have to choose which strains of flu virus to include in the coming season's flu shots, and when the vaccine strains don't match the circulating strains, vaccine effectiveness can be much lower.
Under the three-year award, FluGen will conduct two challenge-studies with RedeeFlu. In these studies, half of the participants will be vaccinated and half will receive a placebo but all will subsequently be infected with an influenza virus.