July 20, 2025 4:54 PM
ICMR developing indigenous two-stage malaria vaccine, AdFalciVax
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is developing a novel chimeric malaria vaccine candidate — AdFalciVax— in collaboration with its Regional Medical Research Centre in Bhubaneswar (RMRCBB), the National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR), and the Department of Biotechnology’s National Institute of Immunology (DBT-NII). The recombinant multistage vaccine is designed to target two critical phases of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite responsible for the most lethal form of mal...