Emergex Signs Contract of £1.79M with the UK Department of Health and Social Care’s UK Vaccine Network (“UKVN”) to Advance Its Novel Synthetic T Cell-Priming Set-Point Candidate Against Chikungunya Virus
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金曜日, 11月 17, 2023
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In the last decade, CHIKV has become a reemerging mosquito-transmitted virus that has spread into Europe, Asia, the Pacific Region, and the Americas, with epidemics causing severe economic impact.
Key Points:
- In the last decade, CHIKV has become a reemerging mosquito-transmitted virus that has spread into Europe, Asia, the Pacific Region, and the Americas, with epidemics causing severe economic impact.
- The programme is intended to position Emergex for entry to the clinic by its completion, ready to begin a Phase-1 clinical trial.
- Subsequently, Emergex achieved all milestones priming the CHIKV candidate for progression to the next stage of its preclinical development.
- A Phase-2 trial for CoronaTcP and a Phase-1 trial for a Universal Influenza vaccine candidate are planned in H1 2024.