Looks like a French company has another candidate, VLA15 that is heading (headed? as of this past March) into Phase II trials (with some help from Pfizer) for ages 5 and up.
Pfizer is also happy to inform people who might want to participate in it’s clinical trials and set up 1-800-718-1021 as a phone number for this and ClinicalTrials.gov_Inquiries@pfizer.com as an email address.
For this particular trial there’s also ‘+43 1 206 20 info@valneva.com’.
The locations where you can participate in the trial are:
Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, 19034
Stamford, Connecticut, 06905
Waterbury, Connecticut, 06708
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55402
Binghamton, New York, 13901
Bronx, New York, 10468
Rochester, New York, 14609
Staten Island, New York, 10312
Cleveland, Ohio, 44122
Erie, Pennsylvania, 16506
Warwick, Rhode Island, 02886
This suggest that if MIRI moves to Peekskill it might be possible to sign up as a group for the trial but it’s placebo controlled so only half of them will get the vaccine.
This situation is basically a smaller Biotech company who’s strength is about doing the underlying science collaborating with a Big Pharma company who’s expertise is in running trials and working the regulatory channel to get drugs approved and then marketing drugs afterwards.
This makes me expect to find the information on the Pfizer website.
Huh, I called this morning and the guy I spoke to said it isn’t Pfizer doing the trial. They said I had to call the other (Austrian?) number on the page, or email info@valneva.com. I did the latter.
Yes. I heard back from them this morning and they recommended contacting the orgs who are doing the trials directly. I googled and called a couple and they both said they are closed to adults now. Only enrolling children and adolescents. I imagine it’s a lot easier to sign up adults for this type of thing...
I would also expect that children are the primary target demographic of the vaccine when it hits the market.
For that group there’s better protection against frivilous lawsuits and a good system to get your vaccine added to the general vaccine list which then equals a lot of demand.
Boy, the historyofvaccines.org page on LYMErix is pretty brutal.
https://www.historyofvaccines.org/index.php/content/articles/history-lyme-disease-vaccine
Looks like a French company has another candidate, VLA15 that is heading (headed? as of this past March) into Phase II trials (with some help from Pfizer) for ages 5 and up.
https://valneva.com/press-release/valneva-and-pfizer-announce-initiation-of-phase-2-study-for-lyme-disease-vaccine-candidate/
Does anyone know how to find out where these trials happen? Would love to sign up if it’s not too late.
Given that the page that Pfizer helps with the Phase II trials the obvious place to look is Pfizers clinical trial recruiting page.
https://www.pfizer.com/science/find-a-trial/nct04801420 is the trial and it’s currently recruiting.
Pfizer is also happy to inform people who might want to participate in it’s clinical trials and set up 1-800-718-1021 as a phone number for this and ClinicalTrials.gov_Inquiries@pfizer.com as an email address.
For this particular trial there’s also ‘+43 1 206 20 info@valneva.com’.
The locations where you can participate in the trial are:
Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, 19034
Stamford, Connecticut, 06905
Waterbury, Connecticut, 06708
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55402
Binghamton, New York, 13901
Bronx, New York, 10468
Rochester, New York, 14609
Staten Island, New York, 10312
Cleveland, Ohio, 44122
Erie, Pennsylvania, 16506
Warwick, Rhode Island, 02886
This suggest that if MIRI moves to Peekskill it might be possible to sign up as a group for the trial but it’s placebo controlled so only half of them will get the vaccine.
Wow thanks! I was all over Google and the Valneva site but didn’t think to look at Pfizer.
This situation is basically a smaller Biotech company who’s strength is about doing the underlying science collaborating with a Big Pharma company who’s expertise is in running trials and working the regulatory channel to get drugs approved and then marketing drugs afterwards.
This makes me expect to find the information on the Pfizer website.
Huh, I called this morning and the guy I spoke to said it isn’t Pfizer doing the trial. They said I had to call the other (Austrian?) number on the page, or email info@valneva.com. I did the latter.
That’s a bit unfortunate, did you email info@valneva.com for more info?
Yes. I heard back from them this morning and they recommended contacting the orgs who are doing the trials directly. I googled and called a couple and they both said they are closed to adults now. Only enrolling children and adolescents. I imagine it’s a lot easier to sign up adults for this type of thing...
I would also expect that children are the primary target demographic of the vaccine when it hits the market.
For that group there’s better protection against frivilous lawsuits and a good system to get your vaccine added to the general vaccine list which then equals a lot of demand.