CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Meridian Bioscience, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio (NASDAQ:VIVO) today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Meridian Life Science, Inc. (MLS), formerly Viral Antigens, Inc., completed manufacturing of a clinical infectious inoculum of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in its biopharmaceutical facility located in Memphis, TN. The RSV clinical material will be used by a contract biopharmaceutical client to conduct human challenge studies in order to establish optimal infectious levels in healthy adult volunteers. The client, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, has commenced a clinical program to evaluate the anti-viral activity of its therapeutic product for treatment of RSV infection.
