The company, which has licensed a line of vaccine innovations from the University of Arkansas System s Division of Agriculture, is building offices, a research lab and a manufacturing plant in north Springdale. Its mission is to provide vaccine technologies to protect poultry, swine, ruminants, fish and, perhaps soon, people.
Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station research on animal vaccines for economically important pathogens such as salmonella, eimeria and avian influenza has led to a new manufacturing and business development by Pacific GeneTech.