Anthrax Vaccine
LigoCyte awarded an additional $2.3M contract for mucosal anthrax vaccine
Published in Vaccine Weekly, August 2nd, 2006
The award for $2.3 million continues the DOD's support for the preclinical development of LigoCyte's intranasal, dual-antigen vaccine.
Protection data from LigoCyte's vaccine was recently reported in the May, 2006 journal Vaccine. The new vaccine provided 100% protection from an inhaled anthrax challenge in an animal study at Battelle Memorial Institute. "Our vaccine not only prevented death in all of the immunized animals, but it also...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2006-08-02)
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