.19 Apr 2018 08:14
"2017 has been a productive year for hVIVO, during which we expanded our services with new proprietary precision development service following the integration of our human disease clinical trial platform and our insights into the biology of diseases that impact the airways. These biological insights played a vital role in advancing the universal flu vaccine candidate FLU-v, where, post period, we announced encouraging symptom based results. This vaccine candidate is designed to minimise the impact of the virus by reducing symptoms - potentially relegating flu to a much milder disease - through stimulating an immune response, in contrast to seasonal flu vaccines. We believe this is the first time any universal flu vaccine candidate has demonstrated a statistically significant reduction in a symptom measure for flu in humans in a controlled clinical study. Our know-how and expertise has also enabled us to expand into new areas, such as drug target identification which we will leverage within our services offering.
We look forward with confidence to 2018, building on our position as an industry leader in human challenge studies and to expand further into areas such as asthma. Our expanded clinical services platform and precision development services approach has already generated significant interest from global pharmaceutical companies and we are excited about the opportunities."