Tuesday, July 11, 2023
GeoVax Labs, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company, develops human vaccines for infectious diseases and cancer in the United States and internationally. The company through its patented Modified Vaccinia Ankara-Virus Like Particle vaccine platform develops various vaccines. It is developing various vaccines that are in human clinical trials, and preclinical research and development phases, including vaccines against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); Zika virus; malaria; and hemorrhagic fever viruses, such as Ebola, Sudan, Marburg, and Lassa, as well as therapeutic vaccines for chronic Hepatitis B infections and cancers. The company has collaboration and partnership agreements with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health; the HIV Vaccines Trial Network; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; United States Army Research Institute of Infectious Disease; U.S. Naval Research Laboratory; Emory University; University of Pittsburgh; Georgia State University Research Foundation; Peking University; University of Texas Medical Branch; the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland; the Scripps Research Institute; the Burnet Institute; American Gene Technologies, Inc.; Viamune, Inc.; Vaxeal Holding SA; CaroGen Corporation; Virometix AG; and Leidos, Inc. GeoVax Labs, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in Smyrna, Georgia.
Robert LeBoyer, Senior Vice President, Equity Research Analyst, Biotechnology, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.
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GeoVax Presents Preliminary Phase 1/2 HNSCC data GeoVax presented first data from its Gedeptin Phase 1/2 trial at the AACR (American Association for Cancer Research) and AHNS (American Head and Neck Society) joint cancer conference. The results show that the Gedeptin regimen was able to achieve Stable Disease according to RECIST 1.1 criteria in 5 out of 7 evaluable patients.
Study Design and First Data. Gedeptin delivers the PNP gene from E. coli to convert a prodrug, fludarabine, into an active cytotoxic drug, fluoroadenine, inside the tumor cells. The trial enrolled patients with refractory head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) to receive up to 5 cycles of the combination, consisting of 3 intratumoral injections of Gedeptin over two days followed by daily infusions of fludarabine for three days. The presentation reported on the first 8 patients out of a planned enrollment of 10 patients.
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