The BD-Ebov trial, which is being conducted in Oxford, will evaluate the safety, tolerability and immune response of the ChAdOx1 BDBV vaccine in 50 healthy adults aged between 18 and 55 years.
The funding will support three promising vaccine candidates being developed by Moderna, the University of Oxford in partnership with the Serum Institute of India, and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI).
This arrangement strengthens an existing partnership between the two pharmaceutical giants, who already collaborate on manufacturing the mpox vaccine.
The collaboration aimed to support the distribution of Valneva’s single-dose vaccine, Ixchiq, in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) across Asia.