Anthrax Vaccines
ImmuneRegen BioSciences Reports Material Transfer Agreement with VaxGen, Inc.
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 26th, 2007
ImmuneRegen BioSciences, a wholly owned subsidiary of IR BioSciences Holdings, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: IRBO) , announced it has finalized a Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) with VaxGen Inc. (Pink Sheets: VXGN.PK). As part of the agreement, ImmuneRegen will receive the pharmaceutically active ingredient of VaxGen's anthrax vaccine candidate, recombinant Protective Antigen, or rPA, to be tested at one of ImmuneRegen's partnering labs. Commercial terms of the MTA were not disclosed.
VaxGen's rPA102 anthrax vaccine is composed of a purified rPA and an aluminum salt adjuvant routinely used in many vaccines. ImmuneRegen will be testing for adjuvant activity of ImmuneRegen's...
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