Article: PowderMed Manufactures a Vaccine Against H5N1 (Avian Influenza) for Clinical Development.

OXFORD, England -- PowderMed, the immunotherapeutics company focused on the development and manufacture of DNA-based vaccines for viral diseases and cancer, has announced that it has progressed its H5N1 Avian Influenza Vaccine programme into the final stages of preclinical development. PowderMed has produced an H5N1 vaccine by cloning the H5 gene from the current circulating avian flu strain ("the gene cassette") into the company's proprietary DNA vaccine backbone and the vaccine is now ready for development. Manufacturing and toxicology studies are now in progress, and it is anticipated that this vaccine will enter clinical trials by the middle of 2006.

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