Brii Ups Its Bet On VBI’s Hepatitis B Assets Amid Larger Treatment, Prevention Push

The two companies have partnered on VBI-2601 since 2018, and Brii is now taking global rights to that program as well as licensing rights to VBI’s hepatitis B vaccine.

Brii is in-licensing VBI's hepatitis B vaccine • Source: Shutterstock

Brii Biosciences is expanding the scope of its license for an investigational hepatitis B virus (HBV) immunotherapy drug and taking on an HBV vaccine in its more than four-year-old partnership with VBI Vaccines Inc., months after Phase II data for the drug demonstrated promising tolerability and antibody responses.

The two companies said 5 July that Brii Bio would expand its exclusive license for the HBV drug, VBI-2601/BRII-179, from an exclusive license to include global rights and acquire an exclusive license for VBI’s three-antigen HBV vaccine, PreHevbri, in the Asia-Pacific region

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