Tuesday, October 29, 2013 Daily Archives

Pfenex Inc. Awarded a Subcontract by Leidos to Develop a Scalable cGMP Production Process for a Second Key Malaria Antigen

Pfenex Inc. Funding will be provided by Leidos through its Malaria Vaccine Production and Support Services Contract with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health San Diego, CA, October 29, 2013 – Pfenex Inc. today announced that Leidos Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: LDOS) (formerly SAIC) has awarded Pfenex a subcontract to develop a robust, scalable, cGMP-ready production process for large-scale production of the blood-stage malaria antigen Plasmodium falciparum reticulocyte-binding homolog 5 (Rh5).…