Meningococcal Group ACYW135 Quadrivalent Conjugate Vaccine (MCV4) developed by Tianjin Cansino Biotechnology has been approved for clinical trial by China Food and Drug Administration (approval number: 2015L05606).
We received the clinical trial application acceptance notice in February, 2013 and submitted the materials to Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) in December, 2013. MCV4 of Cansino is used for 3 months infants to 18 years old adults, which can elicit memory immune responses for the prevention of epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis caused by Group ACYW135 meningococcal.
In 2010, a quadrivalent meningitis conjugate vaccine, Menveo, was licensed by Novartis, which has been proved to be highly effective in young children above three months old. However, MCV4 is still absent in Chinese market. In an effort to fill in this gap, CanSino has been striving to develop MCV4 of better immunogenicity and safety via developing novel carriers and higher conjugation efficiency.