Enesi Pharma and BARDA Drive Enter Public-Private Partnership to Develop ImplaVax® Solid Dose Vaccine Delivery Technology Against Influenza

OXFORD, England, April 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Enesi Pharma ("Enesi"), an innovative pharmaceutical company developing unique injectable solid dose drug-device vaccine products, announces it has entered a public-private partnership with the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority's (BARDA) DRIVe (Division of Research, Innovation, and Ventures) initiative to develop new vaccines against influenza enabled by Enesi's ImplaVax® device and formulation technology. ImplaVax® is a novel formulation and needle-free device technology that enables solid dose vaccine implants to be delivered quickly under the skin. The aim of this technology is for healthcare providers or individuals themselves to administer the vaccine using this simple, convenient and reusable needle-free device. ImplaVax® also has the potential to generate improved immune responses, along with reduced storage and distribution costs. This new programme aims to provide a cost-effective technological innovation that improves vaccination uptake, coverage, compliance and preparedness and is part of DRIVe's innovative health security technologies portfolio. DRIVe is seeking and funding extremely bold, radical and disruptive innovative solutions that have the ability to transform health security. Relevant projects in this portfolio may create new technologies or leverage existing technologies in an innovative, disruptive way. Under the programme, Enesi will leverage its ImplaVax® platform, combining a protective influenza vaccine with its simple and robust needle-free vaccine delivery system, enhancing the vaccine's efficacy, thermal stability and rapid administration to a target population. ImplaVax® could become a potentially disruptive technology not only for pandemic influenza, but for multiple vaccines, vaccination protocols, infectious diseases and biological threats.