JUPITER, Fla., July 10, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dyadic International, Inc. (“Dyadic”) (OTCQX:DYAI), announced today that it has entered into a comprehensive series of research and development agreements, including a potential commercialization agreement, with Biotechnology Development for Industry (“BDI Holdings”), a Spanish biotech company, and its subsidiaries – VLP The Vaccines Company, S.L.U. (“VLPbio”), and Biotechnology Developments for Industry in Pharmaceuticals, S.L.U. (“BDI Pharma”) (collectively “BDI”). Dyadic expects to leverage the BDI team’s know-how in the development of next generation vaccines and drugs. Additionally, Dyadic will utilize BDI’s previous C1 industrial fermentation scale-up and commercialization experience with yeast and filamentous fungi processes to further advance Dyadic’s proprietary C1 technology for biopharmaceutical product development and production.
Dyadic engaged BDI to provide research and development services for an aggregate of approximately USD $2.1 million over two years, including EUR €1 million through a Research Services Agreement to develop designated C1 based product candidates and another USD $1 million through a Service Framework Agreement for certain research projects specified by Dyadic. All of the data and any products developed from the funded research projects will be owned by Dyadic. As part of these research agreements, Dyadic received a 16.1% equity interest in BDI Holdings and a 3.3% equity interest in VLPbio. Other shareholders of BDI include the founders of BDI and Inveready, an independent Spanish venture capital firm specializing in Biotechnology.
“We are very excited about this research and development arrangement with BDI, as we expect it to help us accelerate the further development of C1’s capabilities in biopharmaceutical product development and manufacturing,” said Mark A. Emalfarb, founder and CEO of Dyadic. “This collaboration provides us with priority access to BDI’s scientists who have extensive experience working with C1 and other microorganisms. Furthermore, BDI’s vaccine business provides us with additional opportunities to apply the C1 technology.”
About Dyadic International, Inc.
Dyadic International, Inc. is a global biotechnology company which is developing what it believes will be a potentially significant biopharmaceutical protein production system based on the fungus Myceliopthora thermophila, nicknamed C1. The C1 microorganism, which enables the development and large scale manufacture of low cost proteins, has the potential to be further developed into a safe and efficient expression system that may help speed up the development, production and performance of biologic vaccines and drugs at flexible commercial scales. Dyadic is using the C1 technology and other technologies to conduct research, development and commercial activities for the development and manufacturing of human and animal vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, biosimilars and/or biobetters, and other therapeutic proteins. Dyadic pursues research and development collaborations, licensing arrangements and other commercial opportunities with its partners and collaborators to leverage the value and benefits of these technologies in developing and manufacturing biopharmaceuticals which these technologies help produce. In particular, as the aging population grows in developed and undeveloped countries, Dyadic believes the C1 technology may help bring biologic drugs to market faster, in greater volumes, at lower cost, and with new properties to drug developers and manufacturers and, hopefully, improve access and cost to patients and the healthcare system, but most importantly save lives.
Please visit Dyadic’s website at www.dyadic.com for additional information, including details regarding Dyadic’s plans for its biopharmaceutical business.
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Contact: Dyadic International, Inc. Thomas L. Dubinski Chief Financial Officer Phone: 561-743-8333 Email: tdubinski@dyadic.com
