NasVax: Closing Share Purchase Agreement of Protea Vaccine Technologies

Protea has become a fully owned subsidiary of NasVax

14-Jul-2009 - Israel

NasVax Ltd. announced that it has closed the purchase of 100% of the shares of Protea Vaccine Technologies of Kiryat Shmona Israel. As a result, Protea has become a fully owned subsidiary of NasVax.

In June 2009, Protea announced that it signed a Research and License Option Agreement with GlaxoSmithKline to a set of Protea’s conserved pneumococcal proteins for the development and commercialization of a universal protein-based Streptococcus pneumoniae vaccine.

Protea is developing an next-generation vaccine against diseases caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, based on widely conserved pneumococcal proteins.

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