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GeoVax Reports 2022 Third Quarter Financial Results and Provides Corporate Update
Phase 2 Clinical Trials Advance for COVID-19 and Immuno-Oncology Company Secures Rights to NIH-MVA for Protection Against Monkeypox and Smallpox ATLANTA, GA,
About this update from Geovax Labs, Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"Phase 2 Clinical Trials Advance for COVID-19 and Immuno-Oncology Company Secures Rights to NIH-MVA for Protection Against Monkeypox and Smallpox ATLANTA, GA, Nov. 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NewMediaWire – GeoVax Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: GOVX), a biotechnology company developing immunotherapies and vaccines against cancers and infectious diseases, today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022. GeoVax’s management will host a live conference call and webcast at 4:30 p.m. EST on Wednesday, November 9, 2022, to provide a general business update and discuss financial results. Further details are provided below. THIRD QUARTER 2022 DEVELOPMENTS & PROGRESS “Our unwavering focus is on the advancement of our GEO-CM04S1 and Gedeptin® clinical programs. To that end, we are expanding to additional clinical sites and accelerating patient enrollment for both programs,” said David Dodd, GeoVax’s Chairman and CEO. “We are also delighted that we have secured rights to the NIH-MVA for further development and commercial use against Monkeypox (MPX) and Smallpox (SPX) viruses, which provides a compelling opportunity to leverage our MVA-based vaccine expertise and help expand the global public health supply options available for this ongoing worldwide public health threat. Our successful financing activities during the year provide us with adequate resources to advance these programs, including the production of additional drug product for use in these clinical trials. We are also now well-positioned to advance the preclinical studies for our GEO-CM02 pan-coronavirus vaccine candidate and our MVA-VLP-MUC1 cancer immunotherapy program to further solidify our promising pipeline of human vaccines and immunotherapies.” CORONAVIRUS VACCINES GeoVax has been focused on advancing its two Phase 2 clinical studies of GEO-CM04S1 against COVID-19, one as a primary vaccine for immunocompromised cancer patients, in direct comparison to the Pfizer mRNA vaccine (NCT04977024), and the second as a booster for healthy patients who have previously received either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine as their initial inoculation (NCT04639466). During the November 9th Corporate Update call, GeoVax will provide a progress report on study expansion developments. Earlier this year, data from a Phase 1 study of GEO-CM04S1 were published in the ...