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Cleveland Clinic Recognizes New Strategies for Creating Vaccines for Avian Flu as a Top Ten Medical Innovation for 2009
Date:11/13/2008

Novavax uses strategies to create vaccines for avian flu through

genetically-engineered virus-like particles (VLPs)

ROCKVILLE, Md., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX) announced today that its strategy for treating avian flu through genetically-engineered virus-like particles (VLPs) was ranked as a Top Ten Innovation at Cleveland Clinic 6th Annual Medical Innovation Summit.

Novavax, Inc. believes its vaccine initiatives have the potential to impact millions of people affected by infectious diseases each year by creating novel vaccines that can be produced in a cost effective and timely manner within the same scalable manufacturing platform worldwide.

VLPs are recombinant structures that mimic the size and shape of a virus but lack genetic material and are therefore incapable of replication. Because they resemble actual infectious particles presenting proteins in the same conformation as on the wild-type virus, they are able to induce potent immune responses. Novavax's VLP vaccine may be differentiated from other influenza vaccines in several ways. First, it includes three viral proteins (incorporated in the vaccine as three separate VLPs) important for inducing a broad immune response including two surface proteins, hemmaglutinin ("HA") and neuraminidase ("NA"), and a core matrix protein, M1. The HA protein induces antibody that neutralizes or blocks the growth of the virus; NA induces antibodies that prevent cell-to-cell transmission of virus down the respiratory tract, potentially reducing the severity of influenza disease; and cell mediated immune responses to M1 may lead to destruction of cells already infected. Further, the vaccine is made in cell culture rather than eg
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