Important cooperative agreements were recently signed between the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service and Medgene, an animal health company that produces highly-targeted platform vaccines. The agreements are designed to apply Medgene’s proprietary platform vaccine technologies against two well-known foreign animal diseases: Nipah Virus and Rift Valley Fever.
In the case of Nipah Virus, a highly fatal disease currently affecting swine in Southeast Asia, the agreement is to test Medgene’s platform vaccines developed on its proprietary baculovirus protein expression system. The Rift Valley…
