LV::SFL

A candidate COVID-19 vaccine.

Phase of research

Potential treatment - pre-clinical evidence

How it helps

Vaccine

Drug status

Experimental

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Clinical trials

General information

LV::SFL is a non-replicative lentiviral vector experimental vaccine encoding the full-length, membrane-anchored form of SARS-CoV-2 S protein (Ku et al., 2020).

 


Supporting references

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Intranasal vaccination with a lentiviral vector protects against SARS-CoV-2 in preclinical animal models
Viral vector Animal model In vitro Mixed substance
hACE2 HEK293T cells; C57BL/6J mice; golden hamsters; SARS-CoV-2 strain BetaCoV/France/IDF0372/2020 15.92

Intranasal boosting with the experimental vaccine elicited neutralizing antbody and CD8+ T-cell immune responses, decreased lung viral loads and inflammation in mice. It was also effective in preventing SARS-CoV-2-induced lung injury in golden hamsters.

Dec/16/2020