GeoVax announced that it has been nominated in the Public Company category at the Buzz of BIO Contest, recognizing the Company as one of the most innovative companies at the upcoming 2019 CEO & Investor Conference sponsored by the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO).

Please vote for GeoVax at  https://www.bio.org/events/bio-ceo-investor-conference/buzz-bio-voting. The voting window is short -- running from today (Dec 4) through Thursday (Dec 6) at 5:00pm so please vote at your earliest convenience. 

GeoVax's development programs are importantly focused on vaccines against HIV as well as Zika, hemorrhagic fever viruses (Ebola, Sudan, Marburg, Lassa), and malaria. GeoVax also is evaluating the use of its MVA-VLP platform in cancer immunotherapy and for therapeutic use in chronic Hepatitis B infections. .

For more information on GeoVax, please refer to our most recent Quarterly Update dated November 14, 2018, as well as our Executive Informational Overview (EIO), issued on June 15, 2017 and available for download below.

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Crystal Research Associates has released a 17-page Quarterly Update on clinical-stage biotechnology company, GeoVax, Labs Inc. (GOVX-OTC). The report is available for download.

Snapshot of GeoVax

GeoVax Labs is  developing preventative and therapeutic human vaccines against infectious diseases and cancer. The Company’s patented Modified Vaccinia Ankara Virus-Like Particle (MVA-VLP) technology is the foundation for producing non-infectious virus-like particles (VLPs) from the cells of the individual receiving the vaccine. Producing VLPs in a vaccinated individual mimics a natural infection, stimulating both the humoral and cellular arms of the immune system to recognize, prevent, and control the target infection should it appear, while maintaining the safety characteristics of a replication-defective vector.

GeoVax is focused on developing vaccines against hemorrhagic fever (HF) viruses (Ebola, Sudan, Marburg, and Lassa), Zika virus (ZIKV), malaria, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The Company also has programs to develop a vaccine to treat chronic Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and to apply its MVA-VLP technology to cancer immunotherapy (immuno-oncology). Furthermore, GeoVax is collaborating with Emory University to develop a therapeutic vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, with a specific focus on head and neck cancer (HNC). GeoVax believes its expertise is complementary to a range of other human diseases for which there is an unmet medical need, and thus, has plans to expand its pipeline.

GeoVax was the winner of the 2018 “Best Biotech” Vaccine Industry Excellence Awards, a finalist for the 2018 “Best Prophylactic Vaccine” Award for its Zika vaccine at the World Vaccine Congress, and a finalist for Pipelines of Promise at Buzz of BIO 2018.

Key Points

• On November 8, 2018, GeoVax issued an overview of its R&D programs as well as reported its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2018.

• During the quarter, GeoVax announced that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) had awarded the Company a $2.4 million cooperative agreement in support of its novel Lassa Fever (LF) vaccine development program. This followed a Fast-Track Phase I/II SBIR grant award in April 2018 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with an expected budget of up to $1.9 million.

• In November 2018, the Company announced the start of a collaboration to develop a therapeutic vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. The collaboration is to include preclinical animal testing of GeoVax’s MVA-vectored HPV vaccine candidates in combination with Swiss-based Virometix’ synthetic HPV vaccine candidate.

• The Company further began a collaboration with Vaxeal Holding SA, expanding its cancer vaccine program to include the design, construction, characterization, and animal testing of vaccine candidates using GeoVax’s MVA-VLP vaccine platform with Vaxeal’s proprietary designed genetic sequences. This project is complementary to the ongoing collaboration with ViaMune for co-developing cancer immunotherapies. In parallel, GeoVax is collaborating with the University of Pittsburgh and their Distinguished Professor, Dr. Olja Finn, using combined technologies for abnormal MUC1-expressing tumors.

• The Company’s collaboration with American Gene Technologies International, Inc. (AGT) for use of GeoVax’s vaccine in combination with AGT’s gene therapy to develop a functional cure for HIV is on track to enter a Phase 1 trial sponsored by AGT. AGT expects the trial to begin during the first quarter of 2019. In October 2018, positive results from the HVTN 114 (the Phase 1 trial of GeoVax’s preventive HIV vaccine) were presented at the HIVR4P conference in Madrid, Spain.

• The Company will be represented at the following upcoming conferences: Fourth International Conference on Vaccines Research and Development, Baltimore, Nov. 12-14 and World Vaccine & Immunotherapy Congress, San Diego, Nov. 28-30.

• At September 30, 2018, GeoVax reported cash balances of $511,242 versus $312,727 at December 31, 2017.

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GeoVax Labs, Inc. announced today the publication of a manuscript entitled “HIV/AIDS Vaccines: 2018,” authored by Harriet L. Robinson, PhD, GeoVax’s Director of HIV Vaccines and Chief Scientific Officer Emeritus. The paper is published in the peer-reviewed journal Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, a journal of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (ASCPT), and can be viewed at https://ascpt.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpt.1208. Dr. Robinson provides a comprehensive review of progress toward development of an HIV/AIDS vaccine in the article, including key challenges and lessons learned from completed efficacy trials. 

Despite development of effective antiretroviral therapies (ART), only 49% and 48% of people living with HIV in the U.S. and worldwide, respectively, have drug-controlled infections. Patients without drug-controlled infections develop AIDS and spread the infection. This indicates that for eliminating HIV, there is a need for an effective vaccine to be added to the arsenal of ART. Thus, only with a demonstrated effective HIV/AIDS vaccine can people worldwide avoid the infection, ongoing health risks, and societal impact resulting from this disease. GeoVax is a leader in developing a vaccine for the clade B subtype of HIV prevalent in the Western Hemisphere, Europe, and Japan. The Company's vaccine, GOVX-B11, is currently progressing in human clinical trials with the sponsorship of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).”

GeoVax's development programs are focused on vaccines against HIV as well as Zika, hemorrhagic fever viruses (Ebola, Sudan, Marburg, Lassa), and malaria. GeoVax also is evaluating the use of its MVA-VLP platform in cancer immunotherapy and for therapeutic use in chronic Hepatitis B infections. .

For more information on GeoVax, please refer to our most recent Quarterly Update (https://bit.ly/2x4w4t8) dated August 14, 2018, as well as our Executive Informational Overview (EIO), issued on June 15, 2017 and available for download below.

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GeoVax Labs announced today that its Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Farshad Guirakhoo, will deliver a talk during the 12th Vaccine Congress, organized by Elsevier and Vaccine journal, being held September 16-19th, 2018 in Budapest, Hungary. 

Dr. Guirakhoo’s presentation is entitled “Development of Novel, Safe and Efficacious Single-Dose Vaccines; Zika, Ebola and Lassa Fever as Examples” and will be delivered on September 18th. GeoVax’s vaccine technology platform integrates its recombinant Modified Vaccinia Ankara (MVA) vector with advanced antigen design (Virus-Like Particle, VLP) and state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies.

The Company's technology is supported with funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and is performed at laboratories of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC) in Fort Collins, CO, Institute of Human Virology, University of MD and NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories, which have demonstrated the broad utility of the MVA-VLP platform, especially to deliver single-dose vaccines for emerging infectious diseases such as Zika, Lassa fever and Ebola.

During his talk, Dr. Guirakhoo will present proof-of-concept studies for three independent vaccines against three different viral families. The Company has demonstrated full protection after a single dose using various preclinical lethal challenge models.

In addition to vaccines against emerging infectious diseases, GeoVax is developing prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines for other infectious disease as well as cancer. These include prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines for HIV (already in advanced clinical trials), preventive vaccines for Marburg, Sudan and Malaria, all with major epidemic potential with high human lethality, as well as therapeutic vaccines for chronic Hepatitis B infections and tumor-associated antigen (TAA)-based-cancer vaccines.

For more information on GeoVax, please refer to our most recent Quarterly Update (https://bit.ly/2x4w4t8) dated August 14, 2018, as well as our Executive Informational Overview (EIO), issued on June 15, 2017 and available for download below.

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GeoVax announced today a significant step forward in developing its vaccine candidate for protection against Lassa hemorrhagic fever virus (LASV). Efficacy testing in a murine challenge model (using a LASV reassortant) showed a single dose of the candidate vaccine, GEO-LM01, provided 100% protection to mice infected with a lethal dose of the challenge virus.

During testing, mice were given a single-dose vaccination of GEO-LM01 into muscle tissue, then infected with 1000 Plaque Forming Unit of the challenge virus by intracranial inoculation. All vaccinated mice survived while all unvaccinated mice died within one week of infection. Vaccinated animals produced a strong T cell immune response against LASV at 10 days post vaccination. The study was conducted at the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, with a repeat of the study confirming the findings.

A member of the Arenaviridae virus family, LASV causes severe and often fatal hemorrhagic illnesses in an overlapping region with Ebola virus (EBOV). Compared to the unpredictable epidemics of filoviruses such as EBOV, LASV is endemic in West Africa with an annual incidence of over 300,000, and leading to 5,000 to 10,000 deaths.

New study data suggests that the annual number of LASV cases may actually be meaningfully higher, with 3 million infections and 67,000 deaths (making upwards of 200 million individuals at risk). There are no treatments or vaccines available today to stem LASV epidemics, even though LASV kills more people in one year than the EBOV did in the last 41 years after its first epidemic in 1976 in West Africa.

GeoVax's GEO-LM01 uses the Company's proven MVA-VLP vaccine platform, which has been shown to be safe and to induce durable antibody and T cell responses in multiple human clinical trials for GeoVax’s prophylactic HIV vaccine. Using the same platform, a single dose of GeoVax’s Ebola vaccine has been shown to protect 100% of rhesus monkeys against death.

GeoVax is also developing vaccines against Sudan virus (SUDV) and Marburg virus (MARV), two other lethal filoviruses for which no effective vaccine currently exists. In addition to developing the four individual vaccines (EBOV, LASV, SUDV, MARV), the Company’s seeks to combine the vaccines into a single tetravalent vaccine to provide broad protection for individuals at-risk for these viruses.

Lassa fever has a greater human impact than any other hemorrhagic fever virus, except for dengue fever, and despite this clear need, no vaccine has yet entered human clinical trials. GeoVax is now ready for advanced preclinical testing, which could lead to initiation of human clinical trials.

For more information on GeoVax, please refer to our Executive Informational Overview (EIO), issued on June 15, 2017. This EIO is a 80-page report detailing GeoVax's business, product development, strategic relationships, market opportunities, competition, financials, risks, and more. It is available for download below.

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