Cambridge-based vaccine company ImmunoBiology Ltd (ImmBio) joined up with Sinopharm Vaccine Institute to co-develop its T-BioVax Vaccine against TB infection. ImmBio is pleased to announce the signing of an initial cooperation agreement with LIBP negotiated by Cambridge-based biopharma consultancy company – Link China Pharma Solutions.
ImmunoBiology Ltd, a vaccine development company based at the Babraham Research Campus near Cambridge UK, is pleased to announce the signing of an initial cooperation agreement with LIBP, a subsidiary company under Sinopharm’s biological products division – CNBG (China National Biotech Group) negotiated by Cambridge based biopharma consultancy company – Link China Pharma Solutions.
This partnership collaboration will enable ImmBio and LIBP(Lanzhou Institute of Biological Product) to co-develop ImmBio’s proprietary T-BioVax vaccine for Tuberculosis(TB) into clinical studies in China aiming to launch the TB vaccine first into the Chinese market upon completion of successful clinical studies. This Sino-UK high-tech partnership deal first initiated nearly a year ago by Marshall Ma – Managing Director of Link China Pharma Solutions as ImmBio’s China Business Development. Over the course of the past year, ImmBio’s CEO Graham Clarke, Development Director Chris Bailey and Marshall Ma had intensive business discussions and technical exchanges with CNBG President, Vice President, Chief Scientist and other top Chinese vaccine experts at CNBG headquarters in Beijing and in Lanzhou China.
The partnership will form a strategic alliance between ImmBio’s proprietary platform technology based innovative TB vaccine product with the Chinese partner’s strong technical ability, manufacturing capacity and well established distribution channel in the Chinese vaccine market. This partnership will also lead the way for more successful collaboration opportunities on ImmBio’sImmBioVax platform technology and ImmunoBodies platform technology based anti-infectious vaccines such as Meningitis, Pneumococcal, Hepatitis C and Flu vaccines etc.
TB is a serious, debilitating and highly contagious disease affecting millions of people worldwide. If not properly treated, it is often fatal. TB is responsible for the greatest number of deaths from an infectious disease. Each year 54 million people are infected, 6.8 million develop clinical disease and 2.4 million people die of TB. It is endemic in numerous countries. TB is a major public health problem in China. China has the world's second largest tuberculosis epidemic (after India), and of the 37 notifiable communicable diseases in China, TB ranks first in terms of notified cases and deaths. Naturally prevention of TB infection becomes the Chinese government’s top priority infectious disease control initiative. Therefore this TB vaccine partnership deal between Sino-UK companies will add to its significance and will speed up the development process to produce an effective TB vaccine to reduce the infection rate.