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Results of the tübingen-based vaccine trial are expected in the summer
08.14 PM: the head of The first clinical study with the Corona vaccine the company Curevac to the University hospital of Tübingen is expecting in two months, with the first results. "This is quite a fix gehen", Professor Peter Kremsner, Director of the Institute for tropical medicine, the drug is tested on said. The subjects of the investigations were underway on Thursday, but the first vaccination had not yet been made.
The first subject was a young man. "He will then überwacht" first 24 hours with us in the Department;, Kremsner said. The goal of the first Phase of the study was to learn about the compatibility and the immune system. After more than 100 healthy Volunteers between the ages of 18 and 60 years of age to participate in the study. 
dpa/Sebastian Gollnow/dpa/picture Icon , A man pipetted in a laboratory of the company CureVac, a blue liquid.
The tübingen-based company Curevac is working on so-called mRNA-vaccines. mRNA is a type of messenger molecule, in which the Instructions for the production of proteins is. For your vaccine Curevac have provided researchers mRNA with the Instruction for a Protein of the Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2. The human cells after vaccination of this Protein, which the body recognizes as foreign. He, however, makes antibodies and other immune cells.
For the University hospital of Tübingen, it was a home game, said Kremsner. In Phase two of the study, the group of subjects is to be extended to older people. Also, children should get the vaccine candidates at some point. Two months in the preparation of the study took approximately 30 employees were involved.
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