Flu Vaccines

Novavax Announces Preclinical Results for Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Program

Published in Vaccine Weekly, January 2nd, 2008

Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ:NVAX) announced favorable results from preclinical studies of its recombinant trivalent seasonal influenza virus-like particle (VLP) vaccine. The trivalent seasonal influenza vaccine is the second of two influenza vaccine programs that Novavax is developing using its recombinant VLP technology. The Company's pandemic influenza vaccine candidate is currently in Phase I/IIa clinical trials.

In a study using mice, two injections of Novavax's trivalent seasonal flu vaccine without an adjuvant induced strong HAI antibody responses against all 3 influenza subtypes contained in the vaccine including H3N2, H1N1, and B. The study showed that when all three...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-01-02)

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