August 23, 2021 -- French firm Valneva has begun the regulatory submission process to the U.K.'s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, VLA2001.
The candidate is a whole-virus, inactivated, adjuvanted vaccine -- the only one of its kind in clinical trials in Europe, according to the company. The company is conducting a phase III trial for the vaccine and hopes to receive approval for it before the end of the year.
In September 2020, Valneva entered into an agreement with the U.K. government for the option to purchase up to 190 million doses of the vaccine through 2025, it said.