GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 13, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Altimmune, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALT), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 and provided a business update.
“Throughout 2020 we have put significant effort into developing our pipeline; from advancing our vaccine candidates, AdCOVID and Nasoshield, to IND enabling studies and manufacturing for ALT-801 and HepTcell,” said Vipin K. Garg, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer. “Based on our progress, we are poised for a data-rich year, with the expected initiation of NasoShield, ALT-801 and AdCOVID clinical trials.”Recent HighlightsPreclinical testing commences on COVID-19 vaccine candidate, AdCOVID
In collaboration with the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), we have commenced preclinical testing of candidates for our COVID-19 vaccine, AdCOVID. AdCOVID is being developed as a single dose, intranasal vaccine that is designed to activate multiple arms of the immune system including humoral (antibodies), cellular (T-cell) and mucosal immunity.

Our platform vaccine technology is ideally suited for pandemic use and based on Phase 2 clinical data obtained with our influenza vaccine candidate, NasoVAX, AdCOVID is expected to meet or exceed key attributes of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) preferred Target Product Profile (TPP) for a COVID-19 vaccine:

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