The clinical-stage biotechnology company Evaxion Biotech A/S which specializes in the creation of AI-driven immunotherapies, said today that it has chosen gonorrhea as its second bacterial target for the Company's EVX-B2 vaccine product candidate.
Evaxion has opted to create a preventative vaccination against Gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease (STD) that has fast acquired antibiotic resistance, as its second bacterial target. Based on preliminary results in pre-clinical models, we think Evaxion's unique AI platform EDEN has discovered promising antigen candidates for the vaccine.
“We are very pleased to announce that our AI platform EDEN has demonstrated the ability to identify two promising protective antigens based on very encouraging results in the pre-clinical model. Gonorrhea represents a large unmet medical need. We believe that with this vaccine, patients will be able to produce antibodies against bacterial infection - minimizing the risk of infection”
Lars Staal Wegner, CEO