The European Medicines Agency (EMA for its acronym in English) has announced this Tuesday that it begins the evaluation of the Spanish vaccine

Hipra

.

The vaccine is based on

two structurally similar recombinant proteins

, one corresponding to the

alpha variant and the other corresponding to the beta variant

, which join together to form a single structure called a dimer, and which are accompanied by an adjuvant that increases the immune response.

This combination is capable of generating an immune response against one of the proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, known as protein S (for spike, also called spike protein in Spanish).

This platform is the same one that has been used for

the Novavax and Sanofi/GSK vaccines

, which are already in the process of being evaluated for their potential authorization by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), but difference from them, express

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