Noora (vaccine)
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| Target | SARS-CoV-2 | 
| Vaccine type | Protein subunit | 
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| Routes of administration | Intramuscular | 
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| COVID-19 pandemic | 
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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. Introduced in June 2021, it was announced as having "successfully passed the first phase of its clinical trial" two months later.
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. 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.