FORT COLLINS, Colo. & MEDELLÍN, Colombia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Inviragen, a company developing vaccines to protect against infectious diseases worldwide, and the Program for the Study and Control of Tropical Diseases (PECET), jointly announced the initiation of a Phase 1 clinical trial of DENVax™ in Colombia. DENVax is an investigational vaccine designed to provide protection against all four dengue virus serotypes. The trial will measure the safety of DENVax as well as the immune responses induced by the vaccine in healthy adults in Rionegro, Colombia. The clinical trial is being conducted in collaboration with PECET at Universidad de Antioquia. DENVax is also being studied in an ongoing U.S. Phase 1 trial that commenced in May 2010.
