Novavax and Collaborators Significantly Improve VLP Vaccine for HIV/AIDS
Plans Under Way to Advance New Vaccine Into Clinical Testing
"This advance demonstrates the flexibility and broad applicability of our VLP platform technology and the skill of our development team in engineering customized vaccines," said Novavax President and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Rahul Singhvi. "After demonstrating immunogenicity in pre-clinical studies with our VLP vaccines for influenza, we are eager to develop VLP vaccines against other infectious diseases."
Early versions of Novavax's HIV vaccine were successful in triggering immune responses in pre-clinical studies. However, Novavax scientists and its collaborators recently discovered a way to optimize the expression of the HIV- 1 envelope, which is a principle target for immunity in humans, according to the company.
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