Scientists are applying for permission to infect healthy volunteers with Covid-19 amid fears the number of cases in the UK has fallen so steeply that it will be difficult to test potential vaccines.
The health research company Hvivo, which runs a quarantine laboratory in east London, has joined scientists who say the world needs a vaccine so urgently that researchers should resort to a controversial method known as a “human challenge study”.
Open Orphan (LON:ORPH) was founded in 2017, with the goal of rapidly building Europe’s leading pharma services company by a management team with extensive industry and financial expertise. The company comprises of two commercial specialist CRO services businesses (Venn Life Sciences and hVIVO) and is also developing a genomics data platform business (Genomic Health Data).