Ocean Biomedical announces Virion to present study of VRON-0200

Ocean Biomedical congratulates its joint venture partner, Virion Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing T cell-based immunotherapies, for the acceptance of their abstract highlighting the first-ever human data from its novel checkpoint modifier immunotherapy for HBV functional cure, for late breaker oral presentation at the upcoming 33rd Annual Meeting of APASL. The late breaker presentation will highlight the safety data observed, to date, in the ongoing Phase 1B clinical trial of VRON-0200. “This accepted abstract highlights Virion’s commitment to finding a functional cure for chronically HBV-infected patients – and the first-ever human data for a genetically encoded checkpoint modifier T cell vaccine of any kind. VRON-0200 is uniquely developed to stimulate a patient’s own immune response to the virus. Additionally, its mechanism of action and intramuscular administration were designed to limit safety issues for this novel therapy,” said Dr. Sue Currie, COO of Virion, and one of the study authors. “We look forward to sharing these late breaking clinical HBV data at APASL, one of the leading meetings on the treatment of liver diseases in the world.”