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Accelerated market access for drugs and vaccines under development to combat COVID-19

May 2020

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Overview

One key to successfully combating COVID-19 lies in clinical research. Currently, almost all large research-based pharmaceutical manufacturers and a large number of other pharmaceutical companies and research institutions are in a global race to develop effective drugs and vaccines against the disease. Companies and institutions usually need many years to carry out preclinical and clinical research into a medicinal product or vaccine and obtain a marketing authorisation for their product.

Authors

Jana Grieb

Partner

Frankfurt

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