Vical Announces Breakthrough for Pandemic Influenza DNA Vaccines With Preliminary ...(lant; and cardiovascular therapies in wh...),Health

Date:7/16/2008

lant; and cardiovascular therapies, in which the expressed protein is an angiogenic growth factor. The company is developing certain infectious disease vaccines and cancer therapeutics internally. In addition, the company collaborates with major pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology companies that give it access to complementary technologies or greater resources. These strategic partnerships provide the company with mutually beneficial opportunities to expand its product pipeline and address significant unmet medical needs. Additional information on Vical is available at http://www.vical.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Forward-looking statements include statements about the preliminary results of the company's DNA vaccine Phase 1 clinical trial, the effect of the preliminary Phase 1 clinical trial results on the company's DNA vaccine and Vaxfectin(R) adjuvant programs and its collaborative opportunities, and the design and potential benefits of the company's pandemic influenza vaccine and DNA vaccines generally. Risks and uncertainties include whether preliminary H5N1 DNA vaccine Phase 1 clinical trial results will be confirmed upon further analysis or in larger studies; whether DNA vaccines against H5N1 influenza or any other targets will be successfully developed and commercialized; whether DNA vaccines will become alternatives to conventional vaccines; whether DNA vaccines will achieve immune responses in the same range as conventional vaccines in future trials; whether infrastructure will be established to manufacture DNA vaccines at commercial scale in weeks; whether additional data will provide evidence of neutralizing antibody production, cross-strain immune responses, or T-cell responses; whether further analysis will reveal any advantages for the monovalent or t
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