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Novavax Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

... the second Phase II study of its trivalent season influenza virus-like-particle ("VLP") vaccine candidate. ... to license the company's Seasonal and Pandemic influenza VLP technology to ROVI to create a comprehensive influenza vaccine solution including a facility for the ...

Microbix Sales Grow 22% For Nine Months

... significantly over our traditional markets." influenza Vaccine Business "Influenza vaccine has been ... for seasonal virus strains. Several large global influenza vaccine manufacturers have reported low H1N1 ... of VIRUSMAX to the increasing number of new influenza vaccine manufacturers globally. The Company ...

Winter Park Home to World's Foremost Producers of Large-Scale Decontamination Equipment

... as MRSA and contagious pathogens including H1N1 influenza (swine flu) to first responders, hospitals, ... HAIs and even contagious pathogens such as H1N1 influenza (swine flu) to our city's first responders, ... problem, increase preparedness for pandemic influenza and bioterrorism, and protect the health of ...

Revised: Sinovac Provides Update on Clinical Trial for H1N1 Vaccine Trials

... today that the clinical trial of its A/H1N1 influenza vaccine is proceeding well. All of the volunteers ... 11.8%, which is similar to that of seasonal influenza vaccine. The adverse events were all mild and ... is currently developing Universal Pandemic influenza vaccine and Japanese encephalitis vaccine. ...

Sinovac Provides Update on Clinical Trial for H1N1 Vaccine Trials

... today that the clinical trial of its A/H1N1 influenza vaccine is proceeding well. All of the volunteers ... event rate is 11.8%, which is similar to seasonal influenza vaccine. The adverse events were all mild and ... of September. As usual, Sinovac's seasonal influenza vaccine has been released by China SFDA and ...

Medicago's H1N1 pandemic vaccine candidate shows positive response in 100% of vaccinated animals after a single dose

... results with its vaccine candidate for the influenza A (H1N1) virus, also known as Swine flu. Results ... VLP vaccine was formulated to protect against the influenza A/California/04/09 virus ("California/04"), which ... 5 micrograms. The challenge of current pandemic influenza vaccines is they have to match the circulating ...

ImmuneRegen BioSciences Confirms Homspera's Therapeutic Anti-Influenza Effect on Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Virus After Oral Administration

... Using the accepted ferret model of H1N1 influenza virus infection, animals were treated orally ... Homspera lessened the impact of influenza infection, resulting in shortened duration and ... the ability of Homspera to attenuate symptoms of influenza virus infection, which have previously been ...

Sanofi-aventis Announces Second Quarter 2009 Results

... for the quarter. Net sales of seasonal influenza vaccines rose by 3.3% to euro 32 million. In ... Administration licensed the new sanofi pasteur influenza vaccine manufacturing facility in Swiftwater where production of influenza vaccines has already begun. This facility, ...

FluMist(R) Begins Shipping for 2009-2010 Influenza Season

... today that it has begun shipping its seasonal influenza vaccine FluMist((R) )(Influenza Vaccine Live, ... flu vaccine will be available for the 2009-2010 influenza season through a variety of private health care ... A MedImmune analysis suggests that starting influenza vaccination in August instead of October may help ...

FDA Grants First Authorization of a Commercial 2009 H1N1 Flu Test for use During Pandemic Flu Emergency to Quest Diagnostics' Focus Diagnostics Business

... business for its test for detecting the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus (the "pandemic flu virus"), a strain of influenza A virus initially referred to as the swine flu virus. The influenza A H1N1 (2009) Real Time RT-PCR test is the first ...

Sinovac Initiates Dosing in Human Clinical Trial of Panflu for Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1)

... of various Panflu vaccine candidates for pandemic influenza A (H1N1). Results are expected in September 2009. ... of Sinovac, commented, "In order to prevent the influenza pandemic for a large population in China ... is currently developing Universal Pandemic influenza vaccine and Japanese encephalitis vaccine. ...

Cadila Pharmaceuticals Launches Joint Venture With Novavax in India

... produce and sell products such as seasonal influenza vaccine and potentially other novel vaccines ... also expects to develop the pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine candidate in India that Novavax is ... a VLP-based vaccine against the novel H1N1 influenza strain. The company also plans to initiate a ...

CEL-SCI Corporation Releases Letter to Shareholders

... 1) Vaccines/treatment: H1N1 (swine) and other influenza viruses, as well as a vaccine for ... in recent times. H1N1 (swine) and other influenza viruses: As reflected by global events over ... mechanism of the microbial world. Like all influenza viruses, H1N1 has the advantage of surprise on ...

High-Tech 'Smart' Face Mask Helps Hong Kong Families Combat Swine Flu

... cell walls (bacteria). Many viruses, including influenza viruses, are known to bind to a terminal ... the BioMask(TM) was sprayed with live aerosolized influenza A virus equivalent to 50 times the amount ... sneeze. (The H1N1 swine flu is a strain of the influenza A virus.) More than 99.9% of the viruses were ...

Spanish Government Selects Novavax's VLP Technology for Comprehensive Flu Vaccine Solution in Spain

... use the VLP technology to create a comprehensive influenza vaccine solution for the Spanish government under ... to achieve marketing authorization of the VLP influenza vaccines in the European Union in 2012. ... unique in-border vaccine supply offering. This influenza vaccine supply solution consisting of our VLP ...

Preclinical Proof-of-Concept Studies Published for Novavax Seasonal Influenza Virus-Like-Particle Vaccine

... Immune Responses against a Variety of Seasonal influenza Strains in Mice and Ferrets ROCKVILLE, Md., ... VLP vaccine against the H3N2, H1N1 and B influenza strains. The study, which was conducted by ... which induced HAI antibodies against all three influenza strains represented in the vaccine and against a ...

CEL-SCI Files Patent Application to Support Company's Treatment for More Virulent Strain of H1N1 Swine and Other Influenza Viruses

... prevention/treatment of H1N1, swine, bird flu, influenza A and/or evolving mutants or variants of these ... from essential proteins to be found in the A influenza virus for H1N1, H1N5, swine, bird flu and Spanish influenza to create an effective vaccine/treatment that ...

Sinovac Completes Construction of H1N1 Virus Seed Bank

... Production of Seasonal influenza Vaccine Is Nearly Completed BEIJING, June 15 ... Organization declared the H1N1 virus a pandemic influenza outbreak. Having completed the construction of ... of Anflu for the 2009/2010 Northern Hemisphere influenza season is nearly completed. The production of ...

Commercial Manufacturing of H1N1 'Swine Flu' Vaccine Underway

... is FluBlok(R), a seasonal recombinant trivalent influenza vaccine consisting of influenza hemagglutinin proteins. FluBlok is manufactured ... receive FDA approval in time for the 2009/2010 influenza season. ...

Australia: Face Mask That Kills Swine Flu Readied for Australian Pandemic Fight

... BioMask to help combat the spread of influenza A (H1N1) across Australia. The BioMask is the first medical face mask to kill the influenza A virus within seconds of contact while ... to contain the spread of Swine Flu, a strain of influenza A. By complying with the European Community's ...

Lethality of H1N1 Influenza Virus Increasing According to Latest Analysis of Virus Peptide Genomic Data

... of the latest peptide genomic data for the H1N1 influenza virus indicates that the current global outbreak ... Count of the Lethality Gene in 836 previous H1N1 influenza virus isolates has remained essentially unchanged ... been found to act independently in all common influenza strains in human, swine, and bird hosts, both of ...

Sinovac Begins the Production of Influenza A (H1N1) Vaccine

... it begins the production of a vaccine against influenza A (H1N1) virus. The virus seed was received from ... is approximately 20-30 million doses of pandemic influenza vaccine. The capacity for H1N1 will depend on the ... to co-manufacture Panflu, Sinovac's pandemic influenza vaccine with H1N1 virus seed upon approval from ...

Mach One Corporation Developing a Nasal, Hand Carried Product as Solution to Swine Flu (H1N1) Virus

... One Corporation said, "Having worked with the influenza virus group since 1974, the current strain of influenza Swine Flu (H1N1) appears to be similar to the swine influenza A (H1N1) triple reassortant virus, ...

Novavax and the NIH Agree to Evaluate a Virus-like Particle (VLP) Vaccine Candidate Against the Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Virus

... Company completes initial steps towards producing influenza A (H1N1) VLP vaccine for animal and human testing ... (VLP) vaccine candidate against the novel influenza A (H1N1) virus. Novavax has produced influenza A (H1N1) VLP vaccine against the strain ...

China's Vice Premier, Li Keqiang, Visits Sinovac to Inspect H1N1 Vaccine Production Preparation

... its production preparation for a vaccine against influenza A (H1N1). Li Keqiang also emphasized the importance of having a vaccine for influenza A (H1N1) and encouraged Sinovac to step ... Center for Disease Control began distributing the influenza A (H1N1) virus strain to manufacturers. Once ...

HHS Awards MedImmune Contract to Manufacture Live Attenuated Nasal Spray Vaccine for Novel Influenza A (H1N1)

... monovalent (single-strain) live attenuated influenza vaccine for Novel influenza A (H1N1) to vaccinate priority populations ... promising vaccine candidates against the Novel influenza A (H1N1) strain, and are currently evaluating ...

Sanofi Pasteur Receives Seed Virus to Produce New Influenza A(H1N1) Vaccine

... SNY ), announced today it has received the new influenza A(H1N1) seed virus, enabling the world's leading manufacturer of influenza vaccines to begin the production process for an A(H1N1) vaccine. The emergence of a new influenza A(H1N1) virus strain recently led the World ...

Vaxart Begins Animal Testing of H1N1 Flu Vaccine Candidate

... company has created a candidate vaccine for H1N1 influenza (swine flu). On Saturday, May 23, Vaxart began ... an engineered variant of the circulating pandemic influenza strain and growing it in eggs. An advantage of ... alternatives to current vaccines such as annual influenza and HPV. The company expects to begin clinical ...

Thomson Reuters Makes Disease Briefing on Influenza Covering H1N1 (Swine Flu) Publicly Available

... prevent and address outbreaks such as the current influenza A (H1N1) flu outbreak, the Healthcare and Science ... the free availability of its Disease Briefing on influenza taken directly from the wealth of information ... , and provides information on influenza A (H1N1) including: ...

A New Era in the Application of Lab-on-a-Chip to Rapid Point-of-Care Diagnosis

... product portfolio: a Diagnostic Test Kit for influenza Type A/H1N1 and a MOBILE FIELD UNIT ensuring ... developed in rapid response to the 2009 novel influenza A (H1N1) virus outbreak, as the World Health ... surveillance and diagnostic capacities for influenza and other acute respiratory infections. The ...

Medicago succesfully expresses VLP antigen for A H1N1 strain

... expressed a new VLP antigen ("H1 VLP") from the influenza A (H1N1) strain that caused the recent influenza outbreak in North America and other countries. ... that we can rapidly express an antigen from a new influenza strain without modifying our current technology ...

Novavax Reports First Quarter 2009 Financial Results

... of a VLP vaccine candidate against the novel influenza A (H1N1) virus that has recently emerged in the ... H1N1 VLP vaccine based on the 1918 Spanish influenza strain protected against both the Spanish flu and a highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza strain. Announced the initiation of ...

Novavax Announces Enrollment in the Second Phase II Study of its Seasonal Influenza VLP Vaccine Candidate

... Development of the seasonal influenza virus-like particle (VLP) vaccine progresses with ... trial of its virus-like particle (VLP) seasonal influenza vaccine. Building on data from the first study, ... VLPs against the 2008-2009 H3N2, H1N1, and B influenza strains will be studied in approximately 220 ...

Meso Scale Diagnostics' Point of Care Influenza Test Led to the First Identification of A(H1N1) Swine Flu Infection

... (MSD) confirmed today that its investigational influenza test was used in detecting the first identified ... 2009 A(H1N1) swine flu. The MSD(R) Point of Care influenza Test, which is being developed under a contract ... ongoing clinical study of the MSD Point of Care influenza Test, coordinated at that site by the Naval ...

Protein Sciences Announces Signing of a Forbearance Agreement With Emergent BioSolutions

... is FluBlok(R), a seasonal recombinant trivalent influenza vaccine, consisting of influenza hemagglutin (HA) proteins. FluBlok is ... will be approved in time for the 2009/2010 influenza season. Our web site is ( ...

Sinovac Initiates Preparatory Activities for Swine Flu Vaccine

... for the development of a vaccine for the new influenza A (H1N1) strain, Swine Flu, which is currently ... annual manufacturing capacity for its pandemic influenza vaccine, Panflu(TM), to 20 million doses; these ... of new viruses before they can cause a human influenza pandemic. Panflu is an approved whole viron ...

Flu vaccine given in microneedle skin patches proves effective in mice

... has proven just as effective at preventing influenza in mice as intramuscular, hypodermic flu ... Another study by the research team on a different influenza strain was described in the journal PLoS ONE . ... steel microneedles coated with inactivated influenza virus. The patches were pressed manually into the ...

Biotechnology Company, Replikins Ltd., Provided Advance Warning of Mexican H1N1 'Swine Flu' Virus Outbreak

... high risk of H1N1 outbreaks: --- H1N1 influenza Virus with Highest Replikin Count(TM) Since the ... that the Replikin Count(TM) of the H1N1 strain of influenza virus has recently increased to 7.6 (plus/minus ... 0.001). A rising Replikin Count of a particular influenza strain, indicating rapid replication of the ...

Biotechnology Company Provided Advance Warning of Mexican H1N1 "Swine Flu" Virus Outbreak

... the high risk of H1N1 outbreaks: "H1N1 influenza Virus with Highest Replikin Count™ Since ... the Replikin Count™ of the H1N1 strain of influenza virus has recently increased to 7.6 (plus/minus ... 0.001). A rising Replikin Count of a particular influenza strain, indicating rapid replication of the ...

NexBio Completes Clinical Advisory Board for the Advanced Development of DAS181 (Fludase(R)*), a First-In-Class Medicine for Influenza

... development to address the threat of a potential influenza pandemic. The CAB is chaired by Andrew Pavia, ... research interests include the epidemiology of influenza and other emerging infections; he has ... has published numerous key clinical articles on influenza vaccines and pathogenesis of influenza. ....
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