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Table 2 WHO – Pipeline Zika virus (ZIKV) vaccines (in preclinical development) (last updated January 2017) January 2017)

From: Zika vaccines and therapeutics: landscape analysis and challenges ahead

Platform

Candidate vaccine name

Developer/Collaborators

Replicating virus (Yes/No)

Antigen

Adjuvant

Inactivated whole target organism

BK1603

BIKEN

No

ZIKV full genome

To be determined

Inactivated whole target organism

 

Bio-Manguinhos in house development and Sanofi Pasteur/WRAIR (discontinued in 2017)

No

ZIKV full genome

Alum

Recombinant subunit (non- VLP)

 

Bio-Manguinhos partnership

No

ZIKV E protein

Alum

Recombinant viral vector

 

Bio-Manguinhos/Aggeu Magalhaes (FIOCRUZ)

Yes

PrM/E and PrM/E/NS1

None

Live, attenuated recombinant virus

 

Brazilian Ministry of Health agreement with University of Texas

Yes

rZIKV

None

    

rZIKV NS1

 

Inactivated whole target organism

Butantan ZIKV

Butantan

No

ZIKV full genome

Alum

Live, attenuated target organism

Butantan attenuated ZIKV

Butantan

 

ZIKV full genome

None

Inactivated virus + aluminum adjuvant

ZIKV

Emergent BioSolutions

No

ZIKV full genome

Aluminum

Recombinant viral vector

GEO-ZM05

GeoVax/University of Georgia/CDC Atlanta, US

No

ZIKV PrM/E + NS1

None

SAM

WT

GSK-NIH

Yes

ZIKV prM/E

 

SAM

CO

GSK-NIH

Yes

ZIKV prM/E

 

SAM

VRC_5283

GSK-NIH

Yes

ZIKV prM/E

 

SAM

VRC_5288

GSK-NIH

Yes

ZIKV prM/E

 

Recombinant subunit (non-VLP)

ZIK-80E

Hawaii Biotech, Inc.

No

  

Recombinant subunit VLP (non-fusion)

ZIKVLP

Institut Pasteur Shanghai, China

No

  

Recombinant viral vector

NI.LV-ZIK

Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

No

ZIKV prM/E

None

Recombinant viral vector

ChAdOx1-Zk

Jenner Institute

 

ZIKV prM/E

None

Inactivated whole target organism

KAKETSUKEN ZIKV

Kaketsuken

No

ZIKV full genome

TBD

Inactivated whole target organism

 

NewLink Genetics

No

ZIKV prM/E + NS1

TBD

Recombinant subunit VLP (fusion)

 

NewLink Genetics

No

ZIKV prM-E

TBD

Live, attenuated target organism

rZIKV/D2D30

NIAID

Yes

ZIKV prM/E

None

Live, attenuated target organism

rZIKV/D4D30

NIAID

Yes

ZIKV prM/E

None

Live, attenuated target organism

rZIKVD30

NIAID

Yes

ZIKV full genome

None

Recombinant viral vector

 

NIAID

Yes

 

None

Sf9 cells/Baculo

ZIKV envelope dimers (EnvD)

Novavax, Inc.

No

ZIKV E protein

Matrix M adjuvant or aluminum hydroxide

nanoDNA/ZIKA-LAMP chimera construct

LAMP-ZIKA nanoDNA

Pharos Biologicals

No

ZIKV prM/E

 

Recombinant subunit (non-VLP)

ZIKA recombinant

Protein Sciences/Sinergium Biotech/Lab Liomont

No

ZIKV E protein

Aluminum based

Peptide

Replikins Zika Vaccine and Bocker

Replikins Ltd.

No

Synthetic Peptides

None

Recombinant viral vector

Chimerivax-Zika

Sanofi Pasteur

 

ZIKV prM/E + NS1

None

Recombinant viral vector

SCV-CHIKV+ZIKV+YF

Sementis Ltd.

No

ZIKV, yellow fever, and CHIKV surface antigens

None

Recombinant viral vector

SCV-CHIKV+ZIKV

Sementis Ltd.

No

ZIKV and CHIKV surface antigens

None

Recombinant viral vector

SCV-ZIKV

Sementis Ltd.

No

ZIKV surface antigens

None

Inactivated whole target organism

 

Takeda

No

ZIKV full genome

Alum

Subunit

 

Tours University

No

  

VLP HBV-Zika

Prime-boost

 

U1187 INSERM (CYROI, La Reunion)

   

Live attenuated + ZIKV exosome

Inactivated whole target organism

 

Valneva

No

ZIKV full genome

Aluminum hydroxide

Recombinant viral vector

VXA-Zikavax

Vaxart

 

ZIKV prM/E

 

VLP

VBI-2501A

VBI Vaccines

No

ZIKV E + NS1

 

DNA

 

WRAIR/BIDMC/Harvard

No

ZIKV prM/E

 

Recombinant viral vector

 

WRAIR/BIDMC/Harvard

 

ZIKV prM/E

 
  1. BIDMC Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, BIKEN Research Foundation for Microbial Diseases of Osaka University, CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CHIKV Chikungunya virus, GSK GlaxoSmithKline, LAMP loop-mediated isothermal amplification, NIH National Institutes of Health, NIAID National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, SAM self-amplifying mRNA, SCV Sementis Copenhagen vector, VLP virus-like particles, WRAIR Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, YF Yellow fever, ZIKV Zika virus