Who are Candidate varicella vaccine's main competitors?

Direct comparators (same drug class / molecular target / therapeutic area): Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), RotaTeq™ (V260), Live Smallpox Vaccine, Yellow Fever, Rotavirus Vaccine (ROTARIX), Attenuated Hepatitis A Vaccine, H2 Strain.

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Candidate varicella vaccine — Competitive Intelligence Brief

Name: Drug Landscape Pharmaceutical Database
Creator: Drug Landscape
Published: 2026-01-01
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Candidate varicella vaccine (Candidate varicella vaccine) competitive landscape: 6 comparators, recent regulatory actions, upcoming PDUFA, patent timeline. Class: Live attenuated vaccine. Area: Immunology / Infectious Disease.

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Target snapshot

Candidate varicella vaccine (Candidate varicella vaccine) — GlaxoSmithKline. A live attenuated varicella-zoster virus vaccine that stimulates immune responses to prevent chickenpox and herpes zoster infection.

Comparator set (6 drugs)

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Drug	Generic	Sponsor	Phase	Class	Target
Candidate varicella vaccine TARGET	Candidate varicella vaccine	GlaxoSmithKline	phase 3	Live attenuated vaccine	Varicella-zoster virus (VZV)
Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG)	Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG)	TASK Applied Science	marketed	Live attenuated vaccine / Immunotherapy	Pattern recognition receptors (TLR2, TLR4, NOD2); non-specific immune activation
RotaTeq™ (V260)	RotaTeq™ (V260)	Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC	marketed	Live attenuated vaccine
Live Smallpox Vaccine	Live Smallpox Vaccine	Federal Budgetary Research Institution State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology "Vector"	marketed	Live attenuated vaccine	Vaccinia virus antigens (envelope and intracellular proteins)
Yellow Fever	Yellow Fever	Sanofi Pasteur, a Sanofi Company	marketed	Live attenuated vaccine
Rotavirus Vaccine (ROTARIX)	Rotavirus Vaccine (ROTARIX)	International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh	marketed	Live attenuated vaccine
Attenuated Hepatitis A Vaccine, H2 Strain	Attenuated Hepatitis A Vaccine, H2 Strain	Jiangsu Province Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	marketed	Live attenuated vaccine	Hepatitis A virus

Recent regulatory actions (last 90 days)

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Upcoming PDUFA dates (next 180 days)

No PDUFA dates in the next 180 days for this set.

Patent timeline (forward window)

No upcoming patent expiries for this set.

Sponsor landscape (Live attenuated vaccine class)

GlaxoSmithKline · 19 drugs in this class
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC · 11 drugs in this class
Sanofi Pasteur, a Sanofi Company · 9 drugs in this class
PATH · 5 drugs in this class
Sanofi · 5 drugs in this class
Bandim Health Project · 5 drugs in this class
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 3 drugs in this class
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh · 3 drugs in this class
Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention · 2 drugs in this class
Aga Khan University · 2 drugs in this class

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Drug Landscape (2026). Candidate varicella vaccine — Competitive Intelligence Brief. https://druglandscape.com/ci/candidate-varicella-vaccine. Accessed 2026-05-17.

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