CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VBI Vaccines Inc. (Nasdaq: VBIV) ("VBI"), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation infectious disease and immuno-oncology vaccines, today announced that the company’s abstract titled, “Trivalent hepatitis B (HepB) vaccine yields superior seroprotection rates in adults: results from the phase 3 double-blind, randomized study comparing immunogenicity and safety of a 3-Dose regimen of Sci-B-Vac™ and Engerix B® (PROTECT),” has been selected for a late-breaker oral presentation at IDWeek 2019™, in Washington, D.C., on Friday, October 4, 2019.
Dr. Joanne Langley, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics and Community Health and Epidemiology, CIHR-GSK Chair in Pediatric Vaccinology, Dalhousie University, and Head of the Division of Infectious Disease, IWK Health Centre, and principal investigator of the PROTECT study, will deliver the oral presentation. Dr. Langley will discuss the top-line data from the PROTECT study, a pivotal Phase 3 study designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a 10µg dose of Sci-B-Vac®, VBI’s trivalent hepatitis B vaccine, compared with a 20µg dose of the comparator vaccine, Engerix-B®. Notably, Dr. Langley will highlight the two successfully-met co-primary endpoints and detailed seroprotection data in key patient subgroups, including by age group, gender, diabetic status, body mass index, and smoking status.
Presentation Details
- Abstract #: 717615
- Session: 184 - Late Breaker Oral Abstract Session 2
- Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Room 209 ABC
- Date: Friday, October 4, 2019
- Time: 2:35 – 2:45 PM ET
- Event Website: https://idweek.org
About VBI Vaccines Inc.
VBI Vaccines Inc. (Nasdaq: VBIV) is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a next generation of vaccines to address unmet needs in infectious disease and immuno-oncology. VBI is advancing the prevention and treatment of hepatitis B, with the only commercially-approved trivalent hepatitis B vaccine, Sci-B-Vac®, which is approved for use in Israel and 10 other countries and is currently in a Phase 3 program in the U.S., Europe, and Canada, and with an immunotherapeutic in development for a functional cure for chronic hepatitis B. VBI’s eVLP Platform technology allows for the development of enveloped virus-like particle (eVLP) vaccines that closely mimic the target virus to elicit a potent immune response. Integrating its cytomegalovirus (CMV) expertise with the eVLP platform technology, VBI’s lead eVLP program candidates include a prophylactic CMV vaccine candidate and a glioblastoma (GBM) vaccine immunotherapeutic candidate. VBI is headquartered in Cambridge, MA with research operations in Ottawa, Canada and research and manufacturing facilities in Rehovot, Israel.
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