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Zika vaccine hope as British firm handed £500,000 of government cash for research

Zika vaccine hope as British firm handed £500,000 of government cash for research

A British firm has been given a £500,000 Government grant to develop a vaccine for Zika, as the World Health Organization said there have been no confirmed cases of the virus among travellers or athletes at the Rio Olympics.Excivion is now looking for backers to match that funding and ideally launch immunisation for the mosquito-borne virus by 2023.Zika was declared a global health emergency in February after breaking out in Brazil last year.


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HHS to pay Japanese company $20 million to speed Zika vaccine

HHS to pay Japanese company $20 million to speed Zika vaccine

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response announced September 1 it would disburse an initial $19.8 million over the next 18 months to Deerfield, Ill.-based Takeda Vaccines to accelerate the development of a Zika vaccine for the United States.Takeda Vaccines is a subsidiary of the Takeda Group headquartered in Japan and one the largest pharmaceutical companies in Japan and Asia.Takeda has vaccine programs for dengue, Chikungunya, norovirus, polio and pandemic influenza.


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Zika virus vaccine firm handed £500,000 grant booster

Zika virus vaccine firm handed £500,000 grant booster

The Government has granted £500,000 to a small British firm that is on track to develop a Zika vaccine in a matter of years.A transmission electron micrograph of the Zika virusThe Government has granted £500,000 to a small British firm that is on track to develop a Zika vaccine in a matter of years.Cambridge-based Excivion is now looking for backers to match that funding and ideally bring immunisation for the mosquito-borne virus to market by 2023.


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Deerfield's Takeda gets $19.8 million to develop Zika vaccine

Deerfield's Takeda gets $19.8 million to develop Zika vaccine

Deerfield's Takeda will get $19.8 million from the federal government to develop a vaccine for the Zika virus.Takeda Vaccines, a subsidiary of Japanese drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., will get the funding over the next 18 months, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.Takeda's commercial U.S. headquarters is in Deerfield.


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Government grants £500,000 to small British firm hoping to develop Zika vaccine

Government grants £500,000 to small British firm hoping to develop Zika vaccine

Close up of a female Aedes aegypti mosquito known to be a carrier of the Zika virusThe Government has granted £500,000 to a small British firm that is on track to develop a Zika vaccine.Cambridge-based Excivion is now looking for backers to match that funding and bring immunisation for the mosquito-borne virus to market by 2023.Excivion clinched the contract as part of a competition run by the Small Business Research Initiative and the Government's innovation agency, InnovateUK.