Avant to test anthrax vaccine at Walter Reed

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Avant to test anthrax vaccine at Walter Reed

10/15/2002 10:17 AM
By Patricia Resende
Avant Immunotherapeutics Inc. and its partner, DynPort Vaccine Co. LLC (DVC) of Reston, Va., have entered into a Phase I clinical trial of an injectable anthrax vaccine.

The Needham-based company and DynPort will administer the vaccine, which consists of a protective antigen derived from anthrax bacterium, to nearly 70 volunteers.

DVC is a joint venture between DynCorp. and Porton International Inc. in Washington, D.C.

The trial will be held at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Maryland in collaboration with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation and will study the safety of DynPort’s vaccine being developed for the Department of Defense.

In pre-clinical animal trials, the vaccine was found to be “safe and well-tolerated.”

“We are very pleased to have reached the important milestone of taking this injectable anthrax vaccine candidate into the clinic,” said Una S. Ryan, president and chief executive at Avant, in a release.
 

 

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