Poolbeg Pharma, which is focused on developing treatments for infectious diseases, has signed an option agreement to license MelioVac with University College Dublin (UCD).
MelioVac is a vaccine for melioidosis, which was invented by UCD associate professor Siobhán McClean through NovaUCD, the university’s innovation hub.
The company will continue its due diligence on MelioVac, a pre-clinical asset and recipient of a Wellcome Trust Award to aid its development, as well as other potential vaccine candidates discovered by Prof McClean and her team, for the duration of the agreement.
Poolbeg Pharma plc (LON:POLB) is a clinical stage infectious disease pharmaceutical company, with a novel capital light clinical model which enables us to develop multiple products faster and more cost effectively than the traditional biotech model.