Bird Flu
Carrington Subsidiary DelSite Starts Making Test Batches of First Bird Flu Vaccine Offering Needle-free Self-Administration
Published in Lab Business Week, March 2nd, 2008
Carrington Laboratories, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: CARN) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary DelSite Biotechnologies, Inc. received a shipment of clinical-grade H5N1 (bird flu) antigen from a major pharmaceutical company to commence production, under cGMP requirements, of clinical quantities of DelSite's nasal powder bird flu (H5N1) vaccine. The nasal powder bird flu vaccine is scheduled to begin testing in a Phase I human clinical trial later this year.
The vaccine will utilize DelSite's proprietary GelVac(TM) nasal powder delivery platform, which offers many distinct advantages over traditional vaccine delivery systems: (1) easy, needle-free, self-administration,...
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Source: Lab Business Week (2008-03-02)
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