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Target | SARS-CoV-2 |
Vaccine type | Protein subunit |
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Routes of administration | Intramuscular |
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Noora (Persian: نورا) is a COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences in collaboration with Plasma Darman Sarv Sepid Co. (lit. White Cypress Plasma Treatment) in Iran.[1][2] Introduced in June 2021,[3] it was announced as having "successfully passed the first phase of its clinical trial" two months later.[4]
The clinical trial reported in the Journal of Medical Virology met a critical scrutiny in May 2023, after which the journal declared it as an invalid study and retracted it in March 2024.[5][6][7] Independent research in 2024 indicated that the vaccine is very weak (poor immunogenicity and neutralization efficacy) unlikely useful for the later variants of SARS-CoV-2.[8][9]