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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 16.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Cell Biol Physiol. 2021 Oct 13;4(1-2):1–12.

Table 2.

Inactivated/ Live attenuated virus Vaccines and stages of development

Developer / Researcher Stage of Development Product Description
Beijing Institute of Biological Products/ Sinopharm Phase III Inactivated, (BBIBP-CorV)51
Bharat Biotech/ Indian Council of Medical Research/ National Institute of Virology/ Ocugen/ Precisa Medicamentos Phase III Inactivated; whole virion (COVAXIN) (BBV152)52; 53; 54
Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Phase III Inactivated55
Research Institute for Biological Safety Problems, Republic of Kazakhstan Phase III Inactivated, (QazCovid-in®)
Sinovac/ Instituto Butantan/ Bio Farma Phase III Inactivated (inactivated + alum); CoronaVac (formerly PiCoVacc)52,56; 57
Wuhan Institute of Biological Products/ Sinopharm Phase III Inactivated 58
Erciyes University Phase II Inactivated; (ERUCOV-VAC)
Shenzhen Kangtai Biological Products Co.,Ltd./ Beijing Minhai Biotechnology Co., Ltd. Phase II Inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine (Vero cell)
Valneva/ Dynavax/ National Institute for Health Research, United Kingdom Phase I/II Inactivated (Inactivated + CpG 1018), VLA2001
Shifa Pharmed Industrial Co Phase I COVID-19 inactivated vaccine (COVIran Barekat)
Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO; Thailand) / Dynavax / PATH Pre-clinical Egg-based, inactivated, whole chimeric Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV) expressing membrane-anchored pre-fusion-stabilized trimeric SARS-CoV-2 S protein (Hexapro) + CpG 1018
Institute Butantan (Brazil) / Dynavax / PATH Pre-clinical
Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biologicals (IVAC; Vietnam) / Dynavax / PATH Pre-clinical
KM Biologics Pre-clinical Inactivated (inactivated + alum)
Kocak Farma Ilac ve Kimya San. A.S. Pre-clinical Inactivated
National Research Centre, Egypt Pre-clinical Inactivated whole virus
Osaka University / BIKEN / NIBIOHN Pre-clinical Inactivated
Selcuk University Pre-clinical Inactivated
Sinovac/ Dynavax Pre-clinical Inactivated + adjuvant (CpG 1018)
Live attenuated virus Vaccines and stages of development
Codagenix / Serum Institute of India Phase I Single-dose, intranasal, live attenuated vaccine, (COVI-VAC)
Indian Immunologicals Ltd/ Griffith University Pre-clinical Codon deoptimized live attenuated virus
Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University/ Acıbadem Labmed Health Services A.S. Pre-clinical Codon deoptimized live attenuated vaccines
Meissa Vaccines Pre-clinical MV-014-210