Vaccitech rebrands as Barinthus Biotherapeutics

7 November 2023

A biopharmaceutical company developing novel T cell immunotherapeutic candidates designed to guide the immune system to overcome chronic infectious diseases, autoimmunity and cancer, is to go by a new name.

UK-based Vaccitech will now be named Barinthus Biotherapeutics (Nasdaq: BRNS) in an effort to represent the evolution and expansion of the company’s focus beyond vaccines.

"The company has evolved and expanded since being spun out of the University of Oxford"The firm announced the change ahead of The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) – The Liver Meeting 2023, where it will be presenting data from its Phase II hepatitis B trials of VTP-300.

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