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Hilleman’s Pioneering Shigella Vaccine Set For First Trials

 
• By Penelope MacRae

India’s Hilleman Laboratories, in partnership with a government agency, expects to start human trials this year with a pioneering multivalent vaccine to prevent shigellosis, a highly contagious bacterial diarrheal disease that is a major killer of children in low-income countries but has proven a difficult vaccine target.

Infectious disease

Hilleman Laboratories’ quest to get the first ever approval for a Shigella vaccine marks a significant shift in strategy for the Indian company, which up to now has specialized in optimizing existing vaccines by making them cheaper, more effective and simpler to use, rather than focusing on developing novel products for unmet health needs.

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