Washington, DC, March 6 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Sabin Vaccine Institute (Sabin) today announced that it has partnered with the Vaccine Research Center (VRC), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), to manufacture prototype ChAd3 vectored Ebola Sudan and Marburg vaccines to be used for further clinical evaluation and outbreak preparedness and to potentially protect military, first responders, health care and laboratory workers, and other at-risk populations. Sabin will receive $5.3 million to manufacture Ebola Sudan and Marburg vaccines for the VRC.
“We are committed to preventing unnecessary loss of life by bringing vaccines to those that need them most,” said Amy Finan, Sabin’s chief executive officer. “We are pleased to be working with our colleagues at the VRC, who have conducted significant non-clinical studies and early-stage clinical trials with both vaccines.”