SAN DIEGO, March 22, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vical Incorporated (Nasdaq:VICL) announced today that the U.S. Navy, through the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., has awarded Vical a contract to conduct a Phase 1 clinical trial of the company’s Vaxfectin®-formulated DNA vaccine against A/H1N1 pandemic influenza (swine flu). Vical had previously been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy, in collaboration with the Transformational Medical Technologies Initiative (TMTI) of the Department of Defense (DoD), to support large-scale cGMP vaccine manufacturing and related clinical and regulatory preparations for the trial, bringing total U.S. government funding for this project to approximately $2 million.
