NervGen Pharma Corp.: NervGen Pharma Reports 2020 Year End Results
Vancouver, British Columbia (Newsfile Corp. - April 8, 2021) -
NervGen Pharma Corp. (TSXV: NGEN) (OTCQX: NGENF) ( NervGen or the Company ), a biotech company dedicated to creating innovative solutions for the treatment of nerve damage and neurodegenerative diseases, today reported its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2020.
Paul Brennan, NervGen s President & CEO, stated, We made substantial progress in the development of our lead program, NVG-291, towards clinical trials during 2020. We were able to resubmit our Investigational New Drug Application for NVG-291 early in 2021 and we look forward to starting our Phase 1 trial in Australia this quarter. We continue to generate encouraging preclinical data to support our programs to bring life-changing hope to many people suffering from nerve damage as a result of injury or neurodegenerative diseases. Pending successful completion of our Phase 1 stud
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A Burnaby biotech company is partnering with a global pharmaceutical giant on research into advancing delivery of oral vaccines, including for COVID-19.
Symvivo Corporation, a clinical-stage biotechnology company that has a proprietary bacTRL gene delivery platform, announced Tuesday that it has entered into a research collaboration with Merck Sharp and Dohme Corp. Under the terms of the agreement, Merck receives an option to take an exclusive license to Symvivo’s bacTRL platform technology for use in advancing delivery of oral vaccines.
“We are excited to be collaborating with Merck on this novel program,” said Lloyd Mackenzie, president and COO at Symvivo. “This agreement builds on Symvivo’s efforts to develop the bacTRL platform across a range of diverse and important indications.”