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INOVIO Expands Global Manufacturing Consortium For Its COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate INO-4800 With Addition of Kaneka Eurogentec S.A.
Partnership with leading global plasmid manufacturer advances INOVIO's INO-4800 Kaneka Eurogentec to support production of INO-4800 PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa.,
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[{"type":"text","content":"Partnership with leading global plasmid manufacturer advances INOVIO's INO-4800\n Kaneka Eurogentec to support production of INO-4800\n\n\nPLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Dec. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- INOVIO (NASDAQ:INO), a biotechnology company focused on bringing to market precisely designed DNA medicines to treat and protect people from infectious diseases and cancer, today announced the execution of an agreement with Kaneka Eurogentec S.A., an affiliate of Kaneka Corporation, for Eurogentec to manufacture INOVIO's COVID-19 vaccine candidate INO-4800 at their industry-leading GMP plasmid production scales. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.\nKaneka Eurogentec joins existing partners Thermo Fisher Scientific, Richter-Helm BioLogics and Ology Biosciences in INOVIO's global manufacturing consortium. Each contract development and manufacturing organization that has been selected to join the consortium is compliant with commercial GMP standards and capable of supporting INOVIO's future large-scale global manufacturing needs across its portfolio of DNA medicines and vaccines.\nINOVIO's President & CEO, Dr. J. Joseph Kim, said, \"Our partnership with Kaneka Eurogentec, one of the world's largest and most experienced plasmid manufacturers, provides additional scale to our growing global manufacturing coalition. Kaneka Eurogentec will be a crucial member of INOVIO's global manufacturing consortium, supporting our plans to produce, manufacture and scale our COVID-19 vaccine candidate, INO-4800.\"\nDr. Lieven Janssens, Kaneka Eurogentec's President and CEO, said, \"We are excited to join INOVIO's growing global manufacturing consortium and look forward to supporting the manufacturing needs of DNA medicines and vaccines across INOVIO's platform. We are pleased that our large-scale manufacturing technologies are well-recognized by INOVIO, a leading player in the DNA plasmid field.\"\nINOVIO's Senior Vice President of Biological Manufacturing and Clinical Supply Management, Robert J. Juba Jr., said, \"Kaneka Eurogentec brings a wealth of DNA plasmid manufacturing expertise and innovation to INOVIO's global consortium to manufacture INO-4800. We look forward to working with them to utilize their state-of-the-art, large-scale manufacturing capabilities towards our goal of producing hundreds of millions of doses of INO-4800 for worldwide distri...