hVIVO plc (LON:HVO), a fast growing specialist contract research organisation (CRO) and world leader in testing infectious and respiratory disease products using human challenge clinical trials, has announced that it has signed a £2.5m contract with a mid-sized pharmaceutical company to initiate an Omicron characterisation study. The manufacture of hVIVO’s Omicron BA.5 challenge agent was successfully completed in 2023.
Highlights
• | Characterisation study to establish world’s first Omicron BA.5 challenge model |
• | Study to utilise hVIVO’s new state-of-the-art containment level 3 (CL3) quarantine facilities in Canary Wharf |
• | FluCamp to recruit healthy 18-30 year old seropositive volunteers who have previously completed a course of COVID-19 vaccination |
• | New quarantine unit in Canary Wharf facilitates the expansion of hVIVO’s world leading portfolio of human challenge models |