At the University Hospital of Tübingen, a clinical trial led by Prof. Dr. Peter Kremsner, Director of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Travel Medicine and Human Parasitology and Dr. Rolf Fendel, Research Group Leader at the Institute of Tropical Medicine partnered with the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), was able to show that the vaccine, Sanaria PfSPZ-CVac, which is being developed in Tübingen together with the biotechnology company Sanaria Inc., provides 77 percent cross-strain protection against malaria parasites.