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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 3.

Viral like particle Vaccines and stages of development

Developer / Researcher Stage of Development Product Description
Medicago Inc. Phase II/III VLP; plant derived VLP adjuvanted with GSK or Dynavax adjuvants; (CoVLP)65
Serum Institute of India/ Accelagen Pty/ SpyBiotech Phase I/II RBD SARS-CoV-2 HBsAg VLP vaccine
Arizona State University Pre-clinical Myxoma virus co-expressing S, M, N and E proteins
Arizona State University Pre-clinical Plasmid driven production of virus like particles (VLPs) containing S, M, N and E proteins of SARS-CoV-2
ARTES Biotechnology Pre-clinical VLP; eVLP
Bezmialem Vakif University Pre-clinical VLP
Doherty Institute Pre-clinical VLP; unknown
Icosavax Pre-clinical VLP displaying the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain (RBD); (IVX-411)
Imophoron Ltd / Bristol University’s Max Planck Centre Pre-clinical VLP; ADDomerTM multiepitope display
IrsiCaixa AIDS Research/ IRTA-CReSA/ Barcelona Supercomputing Centre/ Grifols Pre-clinical S protein integrated in HIV VLPs
Mahidol University/ The Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO)/ Siriraj Hospital Pre-clinical VLP + Adjuvant
Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems Pre-clinical VLP
Medicago Inc./ GSK Pre-clinical VLP (CoVLP)+ Adjuvant
Medicago Inc./ Dynavax Pre-clinical VLP (CoVLP)+ Adjuvant (CpG 1018)
Middle East Technical University Pre-clinical VLP
Navarrabiomed, Oncoimmunology group Pre-clinical Virus-like particles, lentivirus, and baculovirus vehicles
OSIVAX Pre-clinical VLP (COVID-19 and SARS1)
Saiba GmbH Pre-clinical VLP; virus-like particle, based on RBD displayed on virus-like particle
Tampere University Pre-clinical VLPs produced in BEVS
University of Manitoba Pre-clinical Virus-like particle-based dendritic cell-targeting vaccine
University of Sao Paulo Pre-clinical VLPs peptides/whole virus
VBI Vaccines / National Research Council of Canada/ Therapure Biomanufacturing Pre-clinical Enveloped virus-like particle (eVLP): Pan-coronavirus vaccine candidate, targeting COVID-19, SARS, and MERS, spike protein (VBI-2900)