Novavax, Inc.'s Dr. Gale Smith To Chair Scientific Congress

ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Novavax Inc. said today that Dr. Gale Smith, the company's Vice President of Vaccine Development, will serve as Chairman of the prestigious Baculovirus and Insect Cell Culture meeting next month in San Francisco.

The three-day conference, which begins February 5, focuses on process development, high throughput screening and production issues involving vaccines and therapeutic products derived from insect cells. Dr. Smith is the co-inventor of the insect cell-baculovirus expression technology, which is widely used in the discovery and manufacture of recombinant DNA products including human vaccines.

Novavax is developing virus-like particle (VLP) vaccines for pandemic and seasonal influenza, HIV/AIDS, and other important diseases using the insect cell-baculovirus expression system.

Dr. Smith will deliver a presentation entitled "The Baculovirus Expression System as a New Platform for Virus-Like Particle Vaccines" at 8:30 a.m. PST February 5.

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