Candidate: Vaccine
Category: VAX
Type: Peresonalized vaccines using technology originally developed against cancer
Status: Helix will use the personalized vaccine technology it created over two years against cancer to fight COVID-19, co-founder and CEO Hannu Rajaniemi told The Wall Street Journal in a report updated March 15. Also last month, the company received an investment of undisclosed size from Sam Altman, advisor to Y Combinator and president of the Silicon Valley accelerator from 2014–2019.
COVID-19: 200 Candidates and Counting
To navigate through the >200 potential therapeutic and vaccine options for COVID-19, GEN has grouped the candidates into four broad categories based on their developmental and (where applicable) clinical progress:
● FRONT RUNNER – the most promising therapeutics/vaccines based on clinical progress, favorable data or both.
● DEFINITELY MAYBE – earlier phases with promising partners, or more advanced candidates in development that have generated uneven data
● KEEPING AN EYE ON… – interesting technology, attracting notable partners, or both, but preliminary data.
● TOO SOON TO TELL – longshots pending additional experimental and/or clinical data.
GEN has also tagged the most common treatment types:
● ANTIVIRAL
● VAX
● ANTIBODY
● RNA
