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GSK Gets Swiss Vaccines Firm Okairos

by Michael McCoy
June 3, 2013 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 91, Issue 22

In a bid to enhance its vaccines business, GlaxoSmithKline has acquired Okairos, a Swiss vaccine technology specialist, for about $325 million. Okairos is developing vaccines that use viral vectors to help stimulate immune responses. It has prophylactic products in development for diseases such as hepatitis C virus, malaria, tuberculosis, and Ebola. It is also developing therapeutic vaccines for cancer.

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