April 22, 2021 -- Valneva announced it has initiated a phase III trial to evaluate its inactivated, adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine candidate, VLA2001. The company's Cov-Compare trial will pit VLA2001 against AstraZeneca's conditionally approved vaccine, Vaxzevria, in a comparative immunogenicity trial.
The U.K. trial will enroll 4,000 participants who will receive two doses of either vaccine. The primary end point of Cov-Compare will be to determine immune response two weeks after completion of a two-dose immunization schedule administered in a four-week interval.
Pending results, Valneva plans to submit the vaccine for initial approval later this year, the company stated.