Bavarian Nordic Receives NIH Grant to Investigate the Potential of an MVA-BN based Vaccine against Ebola and Marburg Viruses
As previously announced, the company is investigating the potential use of its core vaccine technology, MVA-BN® as a combined vaccine encoding genes for both the Ebola and Marburg strains. The funding from NIH will support an animal efficacy study performed in non-human primates.
Upon evaluation of the initial data from this study, which are expected next year, Bavarian Nordic will determine the future of this project in the company's pipeline.
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