From One To Seven In 12 Days: ZIKV Vaccine Candidates Speed Into Labs

When Scrip first wrote about Zika virus (ZIKV) less than two weeks ago there was no record of any clinical development ongoing for a treatment or vaccine against the mosquito-transmitted disease, let alone any available therapies.

When Scrip first wrote about Zika virus (ZIKV) less than two weeks ago there was no record of any clinical development ongoing for a treatment or vaccine against the mosquito-transmitted disease, let alone any available therapies.

There was just one collaborative pair working preclinically on a possible DNA-based vaccine, Inovio Pharmaceuticals and GeneOne Life Sciences, but...

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