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Osivax CEO Hopes Vaccines Maker Can Develop Universal Flu ‘Silver Bullet’

 
• By Sten Stovall

Emerging Company Profile: Osivax is using its oligoDOM technology platform to developer a vaccine pipeline. The French biotech aims to establish proof-of-concept in influenza A then expand the pipeline to provide a universal flu vaccine.

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Osivax has a universal flu vaccine candidate in pre-clinical development • Source: Shutterstock

French vaccines start-up Osivax was spun off from Imaxio SA in 2017 from which the company obtained its oligoDOM pro-immunogenic antigen re-engineering technology. The spin-off’s CEO Alexandre Le Vert told Scrip it plans to bring about a paradigm shift in the prevention of seasonal and pandemic influenza, and potentially develop a universal flu vaccine from its technology.

He said Osivax’s technology platform was 12 years in the making and provides a versatile basis to trigger effective immune...

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