{"id":132415,"date":"2021-12-14T19:23:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T03:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/israeli-co-kicks-off-covid-oral-vaccine-trial-in-south-africa"},"modified":"2021-12-14T19:23:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T03:23:11","slug":"israeli-co-kicks-off-covid-oral-vaccine-trial-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/israeli-co-kicks-off-covid-oral-vaccine-trial-in-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"Israeli co. kicks off COVID oral vaccine trial in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israeli-co-kicks-off-covid-oral-vaccine-trial-in-south-africa.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first volunteer in a Phase I clinical trial of an oral COVID-19 vaccine developed by an Israeli-American company has been screened and enrolled, according to Oravax Medical, a subsidiary of Oramed Pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n<p>The trial is taking place in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Oramed Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, is based on technology developed by Hadassah-University Medical Center and run by Israeli CEO Nadav Kidron.<\/p>\n<p>Oravax developed a novel oral virus-like particle (VLP) COVID-19 vaccine based on the Oramed\u2019s \u201cPOD\u201d oral delivery technology that can be used to orally administer a number of protein-based therapies, which would otherwise be delivered by injection.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Volunteers for Oramed\u2019s medical trial will receive two doses of the oral COVID vaccine three weeks apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first volunteer in a Phase I clinical trial of an oral COVID-19 vaccine developed by an Israeli-American company has been screened and enrolled, according to Oravax Medical, a subsidiary of Oramed Pharmaceuticals. The trial is taking place in South Africa. Oramed Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, is based on technology developed by Hadassah-University Medical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}