Vaxcyte announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, FDA, granted Breakthrough Therapy designation for VAX-24, the Company’s investigational 24-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, PCV, candidate for the prevention of invasive pneumococcal disease, IPD, in adults. The FDA’s decision was based on positive topline results from the Phase 1/2 proof-of-concept study, which evaluated the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of VAX-24 in adults 18-64 years of age. In the Phase 1/2 clinical study, VAX-24 met the primary safety and tolerability objectives, demonstrating a safety profile similar to Prevnar 20 for all doses studied. The study also demonstrated that VAX-24 met or exceeded the established regulatory immunogenicity standards for all 24 serotypes at the conventional 2.2mcg dose, which the Company intends to move forward into a pivotal Phase 3 program. At this dose, VAX-24 met the standard opsonophagocytic activity response non-inferiority criteria for all 20 serotypes common with PCV20, of which 16 achieved higher immune responses. "The FDA’s Breakthrough Therapy designation supports further acceleration of the VAX-24 development program in adults, while also providing validation of the potential of VAX-24 to deliver broader coverage and better immune responses relative to the standard of care," said Grant Pickering, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Vaxcyte. "Our focus remains on advancing our VAX-24 clinical programs in both adults and infants and we anticipate announcing the topline data from the Phase 2 study in adults 65 and older in the second quarter of 2023."
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