ID Biomedical

NIH grant awarded for development of cell culture-based influenza vaccine

Published in Physician Law Weekly, October 20th, 2004

ID Biomedical has been awarded a $9.5 million grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop its cell culture-based influenza vaccine.

ID Biomedical's proprietary cell culture-based manufacturing process is being developed as a possible future replacement to the classical egg-based manufacturing process currently used by all flu vaccine manufacturers, including ID Biomedical.

The technology has particular application to manufacturing vaccine in the event of an influenza pandemic. This grant will allow ID Biomedical to further develop and conduct early-stage human trials of its cell culture-based influenza vaccine.

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