Protein Sciences and Orygen Biotecnologia to license Flublok influenza vaccine for Brazil

12 April 2016

Privately-held US biotech Protein Sciences has agreed on the terms of a licensing partnership that grants Orygen Biotecnologia an exclusive license to Flublok influenza vaccine for the Brazilian market.

Orygen Biotecnologia is a joint venture between the Brazilian pharma companies Eurofarma Laboratórios SA and Biolab Sanus Farmaceutica.

Brazil is experiencing a severe outbreak of H1N1 swine flu that has killed almost twice as many people over the past three months as it did in all of 2015, according to Brazil's Health Ministry, evidencing the need for effective influenza prevention.

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