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Blue Water Vaccines Announces Collaboration with Instituto Butantan for the Development of BWV-101, a Universal Influenza Vaccine Candidate
CINCINNATI, May 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Blue Water Vaccines, Inc. (“BWV” or “Blue Water Vaccines” or “the Company”) a biopharmaceutical company
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[{"type":"text","content":"CINCINNATI, May 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Blue Water Vaccines, Inc. (“BWV” or “Blue Water Vaccines” or “the Company”) a biopharmaceutical company developing vaccines, announces a collaboration with the multidisciplinary Center for R&D in Immunobiologics (“CeRDI”), an initiative of Instituto Butantan (“Butantan”). Through this partnership, Butantan, a leading Brazilian producer of immunobiologic products and vaccines, and BWV will develop the universal influenza vaccine candidate, BWV-101, in Brazil. Instituto Butantan was approved for a grant from The State of Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) to develop BWV’s universal influenza vaccine candidate in Brazil. This project grant is part of a larger consortium across CeRDI to develop a centralized resource to achieve national autonomy in vaccines and biologics manufacturing and development. The consortium includes multiple research groups across universities, including the University of Oxford, along with other private companies. Through this collaboration, CeRDI commits to advance vaccines based on the adjuvant formulation and newer cell-culture based vaccines. \"We are incredibly honored to enter into this joint effort to develop our vaccine candidate in Brazil,” said Joseph Hernandez, Chairman and CEO of Blue Water Vaccines. “Instituto Butantan is a leading producer of vaccines in Brazil and is highly respected globally. We hope to scale new heights in vaccine manufacturing and development through this collaboration.” Blue Water Vaccines is developing a universal influenza vaccine that could potentially provide lifelong protection from influenza, including pandemic strains like the 1918 pandemic and 2009 swine flu. Scientists from the University of Oxford identified epitopes of limited variability in the head domain of the haemagglutinin protein. These epitopes are targeted naturally by the immune system and vaccination studies have shown that regions of influenza viruses that circulated in 2006 and 1977 were able to protect against infection with an influenza virus that last circulated in 1934. The vaccine is being produced using an E. coli expression platform allowing for a more cost effective and rapid production of the vaccine, compared to the current influenza production models. About Blue Water Vaccines Blue Water Vaccines, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focus...