GeoVax Labs receives notice of allowance for Zika vaccine patent

Earlier, GeoVax Labs announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a Notice of Allowance for Patent Application No. 17/000,768 titled, "Method for Generating a ZIKV Immune Response Utilizing a Recombinant Modified Vaccinia Ankara Vector Encoding the NS1 Protein." "Our novel Zika vaccine candidate, GEO-ZM02, is constructed using our modified vaccinia Ankara vector platform. Preclinical studies demonstrated a single dose of GEO-ZM02 provided 100% protection against a lethal dose of Zika virus," stated GeoVax CEO David Dodd. "Addressing many of the world’s most threatening infectious diseases is part of our vision and corporate priorities for MVA’s applications, which also includes an MVA-based next-generation COVID-19 vaccine currently in Phase 2 clinical trials."