With its Phase II trial finally underway, Inovio has enlisted another key manufacturing partner to hit its goal of hundreds of millions of doses of its DNA vaccine — filling the role of a contract manufacturer it’s still in a legal standoff with.
Japan’s Kaneka Eurogentec is tasked with plasmid production, for which Inovio has previously relied on Korean-owned VGXI. It joins a consortium Inovio has assembled that includes Thermo Fisher Scientific, Richter-Helm BioLogics and Ology Bioservices.
Author: Canan Schuman, PharmD/PhD
Canan Schumann is Chief Editor for Axxiem and for Axxiem's blog "BiotechOntheWeb". When not writing for Axxiem, Canan works as a Clinical Research Scientist II at the Research and Development Department at Molecular Testing Labs, developing endpoint assays for the detection of infectious disease and cancer. Canan currently resides in Portland, Oregon, where he received his Honors Bachelor of Science (HBS), Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD.), and his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Biopharmaceutics at Oregon State University.