Deal combines new lung cancer agent with targeted inhaled delivery

16 August 2017

UK inhaled therapies developer Vectura Group (LSE: VEC) has signed an exclusive global agreement for the application of its smart nebulizer technology with US immunotherapy specialist Dynavax Technologie (Nasdaq: DVAX) to deliver a lung cancer agent.

Vectura’s AKITA smart nebulizer will be used by Dynavax to deliver DV281, a novel toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) agonist designed specifically for local delivery to primary lung tumors and lung metastases in order to generate an anti-tumor immune response.

Vectura’s nebulization technology combines optimizing patient’s inhalation technique with the effective control of the flow rate and volume of the drug being delivered, the company says. This approach maximizes the efficiency of the nebulization and enables consistent targeted drug deposition.

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