Dartmouth company gets more federal funding for COVID-19 vaccine development

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A Dartmouth pharmaceutical company developing a COVID-19 vaccine announced Thursday that it has received more funding from Ottawa to fund further testing and development of its vaccine candidate it calls DPX-COVID-19, which is designed to prevent the infection caused by the novel coronavirus.

Marianne Stanford, vice-president of research and development at IMV, holds vials filled with components of what could be a vaccine for COVID-19 during CTV News' exclusive look inside the Dartmouth lab.HALIFAX -- A Dartmouth pharmaceutical company developing a COVID-19 vaccine announced Thursday that it has received more funding from Ottawa for further testing and development of its vaccine candidate.

Health Canada notified IMV that it would provide up to $5.4 million in funding to support clinical trials that are expected to start before the end of 2020. That brings the total IMV has received from government to $10 million. "In consultation with Health Canada, IMV decided to combine its original Phase 1 and 2 studies into a single trial with the potential to accelerate the clinical development and the timeline of the overall project," IMV said in a news release.

The company also announced that it has partnered with a manufacturer that can produce several hundred million doses of DPX-COVID-19, if necessary.

 

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Who is the CEO and what other government contracts have they already won in the past? How deep into the Montreal Mafia are they? Or is this China related?

RUN Run from the CON-vid cult. This has become a religion -

So trump is right by yrs end then ?

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