Bhubaneswar: Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Berhampur and Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol claim to have developed a vaccine that can be effective against all variants of coronavirus.

The scientists claim that the peptide vaccine could provide protection against any future variants of coronavirus. The research was accepted for publication in the Journal of Molecular Liquids.

Dr. Malay Kumar Rana, Assistant Professor, Chemical Science Department, IISER Berhampur and two PhD students of the institute Parth Sarthi Sen Gupta and Saroj Kumar Panda, and Abhigyan Choudhury and Suprabhat Mukherjee from Kazi Nazrul University were part of the research.

"The designed vaccine was found to be highly stable, antigenic and immunogenic," the researchers said.

The team developed the vaccine using computational methods and the next stage would involve the production of the vaccine which would be followed by testing, said Choudhary.

The vaccine is first-of-its-kind. No other vaccine in the world has been designed to fight all the Coronaviridae family viruses at a single time, he said.

Saroj Kumar Panda said permission will be sought from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for the trail of the vaccine.