BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex:INO), a leader in the development of therapeutic and preventive vaccines against cancers and infectious diseases, announced today that Dr. Spyros Kalams will provide an update of interim immune responses and safety results from the HVTN 080 Phase I clinical study of Inovio’s PENNVAXTM-B HIV DNA vaccine in a preventive setting. Dr. Kalams, principal investigator of this clinical study, is Immunology Director of the Vanderbilt Center for AIDS Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbilt University. The multi-center study is being conducted by Inovio’s clinical collaborator, the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN), at several clinical sites and is sponsored by the Division of AIDS (DAIDS) of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), an agency of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
