hVIVO signs £2.5m contract for Omicron characterisation study

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
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