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University of Montana Earns $10M Contract to Develop Universal Flu Vaccine

October 3, 2018 /

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The National Institutes of Health have awarded a $10 million contract to the University of Montana to develop a new universal flu vaccine.

The five-year award went to Dr. Jay Evans, director of UM’s Center for Translational Medicine and a research professor in the Division of Biological Sciences. The contract is titled "Development of TRAC-478: A Synthetic Dual TLR Adjuvant Combination System."

Inimmune http://www.inimmune.com is a biotech company located at the University’s business incubator, MonTEC. Efforts at Inimmune will be led by Dr. Kendal Ryter, the company’s vice president of manufacturing and development.

http://news.umt.edu/2018/10/100318vaci.php

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