VBI Is Ready To Take On HBV Vaccine Market

VBI’s Sci-B-Vac CONSTANT data firmly establishes the hepatitis B vaccine’s advantages over GSK’s longstanding Engerix-B, but it faces a tougher challenge with Heplisav-B from Dynavax. 

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VBI's hepatitis B vaccine faces tough competition from Dynavax.

With its second pivotal Phase III showing an advantage for VBI Vaccines Inc.’s Sci-B-Vax over Engerix-B, GlaxoSmithKline PLC’s monovalent HBV vaccine, Cambridge, MA-based VBI is preparing for submission and market entry – but it faces a tougher challenge going up against Dynavax Technologies Corp.’s Heplisav-B.

VBI reported on 9 January that the CONSTANT study assessing lot-to-lot manufacturing consistency of its trivalent hepatitis B (HBV) vaccine,...

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