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Imperial College London has joined an Oxford-led clinical trial as a key site to begin testing a vaccine against COVID-19.

Trials will be conducted at multiple centres across the UK, including Oxford, Southampton, Bristol and London and are expected to run for the next six months.

As part of the study, Imperial will be one of several sites carrying out trials of the vaccine and Imperial College NHS Trust is currently recruiting healthy volunteers to participate.

The work will enable researchers to assess if healthy people can be protected from COVID-19 with the new vaccine, called ChAdOx1 nCoV-19. It will also provide valuable information on safety aspects of the vaccine and its ability to generate good immune responses against the virus.

The team will do this by randomly allocating participants to receive the COVID-19 vaccine or a control injection in addition to doing blood tests and collecting information about any symptoms that occur after vaccination.

Dr Katrina Pollock, Clinical Research Fellow in Vaccinology, who will be leading the work at Imperial鈥檚 Hammersmith campus, said: 鈥淭his is the first-in human trial for this candidate vaccine and an important step towards developing a safe and effective vaccine against the novel coronavirus. Our clinical team is excited to begin trials this week as a key centre in this landmark study to combat COVID-19.鈥�

Dr David Owen, Head of Clinical Studies at the 蓝莓视频 Imperial Clinical Research Facility, said: 鈥淭he vaccine team at the 蓝莓视频 ICRF has started this project in record time. We are delighted to be able to support Dr Pollock in delivering this extremely important trial.鈥�

For further information on the Oxford-led vaccine study or to register as a participant, please see the . You can monitor progress of this trial at Imperial College NHS Trust site on this site.

In addition to this work, Professor Robin Shattock at Imperial College London is leading on , which will be tested in human trials beginning in June, also at the 蓝莓视频 Imperial Clinical Research Facility. The team at the ICRF will soon begin screening participants for the trial of Professor Shattock鈥檚 vaccine; members of the public can register their interest by signing up via the .

The vaccine trials held at 蓝莓视频 Imperial Clinical Research Facility are also supported by 蓝莓视频 蓝莓视频.

written by Ryan O鈥橦are. 漏 Imperial College London