NanoBio Corporation today announced that it has been awarded a two-year Phase II Small Business Research Innovation (SBIR) grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, for the development of an intranasal nanoemulsion (NE) adjuvanted vaccine for the prevention of genital herpes. The grant will fund up to $1.5 million of critical preclinical research and process development activities, including the completion of a pre-IND meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Under NIAID’s suite of preclinical services, researchers at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center previously tested NanoBio’s intranasal vaccine in several guinea pig challenge studies. “NanoBio’s intranasal vaccine is one of the only vaccine candidates we’ve studied that has shown efficacy in both the prophylactic and the therapeutic animal models,” said Dr. David I. Bernstein, Professor of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. “Based on our data with this unique approach, we look forward to seeing the intranasal NE vaccine progress to human clinical studies.”
