UK Meningitis Trust highlights ImmBio's vaccine development

21 September 2008

The UK's Meningitis Trust has issued a statement supporting UK firm ImmunoBiology's development of a new approach to meningitis treatment, which has made progress towards a vaccine against the serogroup B form of the virus.

ImmBio is developing heat shock protein complexes to deliver multiple antigens to dendritic cells. The firm says this elicits a broad and protective immune response.

A poster presentated at the 16th International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference in Rotterdam, Netherlands, highlighted that a HspC vaccine derived from Neisseria meningitidis strain MC58 induced antibodies that mediate the uptake of a diverse panel of NmB strains by human phagocytic cells in a pre-clinical study.

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