Lucky us! the 13th International Bio Asia Conference is scheduled for March 15-16, 2016 at the Grand Hyatt, Tokyo in Roppongi. It might be a bit early for cherry blossoms, but hope springs eternal! We will be arriving a bit early and staying a bit late. Please let us know if you would like us to meet with you ...

As a Valentine’s day gift to women at risk of Zika everywhere, we’re providing access to our initial analysis of Zika and our opinion on Zika vaccine design.  If you just want access to the slides, here they are: https://bit.ly/Zika_Slides_EpiVax_2016 What’s the key point of this post? We think that it’s won’t be so easy to make an effective Zika vaccine. Rushing ...

The fact that we (EpiVax folk) haven’t said much about Zika probably has people scratching their heads. Well … here you have it We say: proceed with caution. Why? Zika is a Flavivirus, and that means it’s an RNA virus. That means lots of rapid evolution (the virus changes rapidly over time) and that has proven to be ...

The fact that we (EpiVax folk) haven’t said much about Zika probably has people scratching their heads. Well … here you have it We say: proceed with caution. Why? Zika is a Flavivirus, and that means it’s an RNA virus. That means lots of rapid evolution (the virus changes rapidly over time) and that has proven to be ...

(This post has been corrected, thanks Sebastian!) I love “Google Alerts”. They let me know when someone has just published an article citing one of our articles, and link me to new, exciting work that has just been made available on the web. Last week, my google alert linked me to a new paper by Sebastian Spindeldreher’s ...

Our latest mini-publication on ‘vaccines on demand’ can be found here: IQT Quarterly Winter 2016 – EpiVax

Sancha Salgueiro! Congratulations to Sancha and the team at ExpreS2ion Biotechnologies! https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanchasalgueiro

Graduate student Lu He, working with EpiVax CEO De Groot and collaborator Chris Bailey Kellog, recently reported that bacteria ‘copy and paste’ sequences from the human genome to escape immune response. She calls this escape mechanism “bacterial immune camouflage“. She used the JanusMatrix tool to develop a new measure of immune escape,  the Janus Immunogenicity Score ...

An academic version of this blog post, that explains why epitope redundancy provides resiliency (to bacteria) and weakness (to immune defense) can be found here.  . . . So a guy named Elledge has discovered a way to test your blood for the viruses that you’ve been exposed to. Sounds as if it will soon be available ...

An academic version of this blog post, that explains why epitope redundancy provides resiliency (to bacteria) and weakness (to immune defense) can be found here.  . . . So a guy named Elledge has discovered a way to test your blood for the viruses that you’ve been exposed to. Sounds as if it will soon be available ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I., Jan. 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — EpiVax, Inc. (EpiVax) today announced the company’s participation in a new venture, Aceno Biotherapeutics, a BioSuperior company. Co-founder Anne S. De Groot MD will be presenting the vision for the new venture in San Francisco at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco, at 4 PM (Davidson). Aceno ...

A short time ago, we received an email that contained an individual patient’s cancer genome. The patient had appealed to his doctor to make a personalized cancer vaccine, and his doctor emailed us, to ask if we could help out. Our answer? Yes we can! A bigger question might be – how will the patient get permission to ...

Rhode Island offers companies access to research and development to help them grow PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Governor Gina M. Raimondo, along with Secretary of Commerce Stefan Pryor, today launched three new innovation-focused incentive programs aimed at jumpstarting Rhode Island’s economy. Applications for the Innovation Vouchers, Industry Cluster Grants and Innovation Network Matching Grants are now available ...

Seventeen years ago EpiVax Inc. spun out of a laboratory at Brown University – a high-risk but high-reward company whose founders had made an innovative discovery. Today the self-funded, Providence-headquartered company is at the forefront of vaccine research. Its computational tools enable developers to engineer and design safe, effective and protective therapeutic proteins and vaccines, and ...

A new blue ribbon study, “A National Blueprint for Biodefense,” endorsed a new strategic direction for medical countermeasures to biothreats, recommending investments in vaccine-on-demand technologies developed by EpiVax. By Richard Asinof WASHINGTON, D.C. – The vaccine on demand technologies pioneered by EpiVax received a major shot in the arm when the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense released ...