Sanofi-Aventis pulls out of TroVax but in ocular deal with Oxford BioMedica

Sanofi-Aventis has pulled out of developing Oxford BioMedica's novel cancer vaccine TroVax, but will pay the UK company £34 million to develop four preclinical ocular therapies.

Sanofi-Aventis has pulled out of developing Oxford BioMedica's novel cancer vaccine TroVax, but will pay the UK company £34 million to develop four preclinical ocular therapies.

Oxford BioMedica regains the worldwide rights to TroVax after its co-development partner Sanofi-Aventis announced this week that it was stopping...

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