Asia Deal Watch: China’s BravoVax, US-based GeoVax Team Up On Coronavirus Vaccine

Deal news from GeoVax/BravoVax, Onconova/HanX, Zydus Cadila/China Medical System Holdings, EyePoint/Ocumension, Ningbo NewBay Medical/Genentech, Otsuka/PhoreMost, Almirall/WuXi Biologics

Asia Deal Watch

Scrip regularly covers business development and deal-making in the biopharmaceutical industry. Deal Watch is supported by deal intelligence from Strategic Transactions.

On 27 January, US firm GeoVax Labs Inc. and Chinese vaccine developer BravoVax Co. Ltd. said they had signed a letter of intent to jointly develop a vaccine against the new Wuhan coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

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