Soligenix Extends Patent Protection for its Filovirus Vaccine Platform to the United Kingdom and South Africa
PRINCETON, N.J., April 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Soligenix, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNGX) (Soligenix or the Company), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products to treat rare diseases where there is an unmet medical need, announced today that it has received notice of intent to grant additional patents based on its patent application titled “Compositions and Methods of Manufacturing Trivalent Filovirus Vaccines” in the United Kingdom and South Africa, with other international jurisdictions pending. The Company has previously announced multiple issued patents within the same patent family in the United States (U.S.). The allowed claims are directed to unique, proprietary compositions and methods related to combinations of glycoprotein antigens with nanoemulsion adjuvants comprising sucrose fatty acid esters prior to lyophilization. The described vaccine platform has previously been successfully applied to mono-, bi- and tri-valent candidates for Zaire ebolavirus, Sudan ebolavirus and Marburg marburgvirus, including monovalent vaccines SuVax™ (targeting Sudan ebolavirus) and MarVax™ (targeting Marburg marburgvirus).