Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corporation, and Dynavax Technologies Corporation announced the rollout of its COVID-19 vaccine, MVC-COV1901. Approximately 600,000 people are anticipated to receive the Medigen vaccine this week. MVC-COV1901 is a subunit vaccine with recombinant S-2P antigen adjuvanted with CpG 1018 supplied by Dynavax and aluminum hydroxide.

The S-2P antigen is a trimeric and prefusion-stable recombinant spike protein developed by the U.S.NIH. MVC has obtained a global technology license for S-2P from the U.S. Vaccine Research Center at National Institutes of Health (NIH). MVC-COV1901 vaccine's Phase 1 and 3,815-participant Phase 2 clinical study data has shown robust safety and promising immunogenicity responses and as a result obtained Taiwan's EUA approval on July 19th, 2021.

MVC will continue to collaborate with international partners for phase 3 clinical trial development and assist the global community in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.