Canadian, privately-owned vaccine development firm ImmunoVaccine says that it has held talks with Health Canada's regulatory affairs division to discuss the requirements for a Phase I trial of a product candidate produced using its VacciMax platform. Company chief executive Randal Chase said that the firm was seeing "impressive preclinical results with the VacciMax platform," adding that "the comments from [Health Canada's] Biologics and Genetic Therapies Directorate are much appreciated because they give us direction as we proceed with our clinical development."
IV is also planning to begin a Phase I program in the USA following its acquisition of Pennsylvania-based developer Immunotope (Marketletter December 17, 2007). The US study will evaluate the safety of candidate antigens for a therapeutic vaccine for patients with ovarian and breast cancer.
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