Selecta Biosciences, Inc. Initiates Phase 1 Clinical Study of SEL-068, a First-in-Class Synthetic Nicotine Vaccine for Smoking Cessation and Relapse Prevention

WATERTOWN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Selecta Biosciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of synthetic vaccines and immunotherapies, today announced that it has initiated a Phase 1 clinical trial to assess the safety, tolerability and pharmacodynamic profile of SEL-068, a nicotine vaccine candidate for smoking cessation and relapse prevention. SEL-068 is the first product candidate to enter clinical evaluation from Selecta’s proprietary Synthetic Vaccine Particle (SVP™) platform, and it has the potential to become the first nanoparticle vaccine that is synthetically engineered, distinct from conventional biological vaccine manufacturing processes.