Generex and NuGenerex Immuno-Oncology Ii-Key-SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Partner Bintai Kinden Executes its Exclusive Distribution & Licensing Option for Australia and New Zealand - Seite 2

“By moving forward with discussions on expanding the distribution and sales of Ii-Key vaccines in Australia and New Zealand, Bintai is demonstrating their confidence in our long-term partnership, and I want to thank them for their commitment to help us develop the Ii-Key Complete Vaccine solution. We continue to advance our Ii-Key COVID-19 vaccine development program with a comprehensive analysis of the human immune response to individual Ii-Key-SARS-CoV-2 epitopes using a proprietary ex-vivo, blood screening protocol using blood from COVID-19 patients. With these ex-vivo human studies we are able to identify specific regions of the coronavirus that the human immune system recognizes to mount a targeted, neutralizing immune response, as well as those that activate the T-Helper Cell response necessary for long-term immune memory. This is the beauty of the Ii-Key platform, that we can determine, through human blood screening and immune characterization, how our Ii-Key vaccines activate targeted, neutralizing, long-term immune responses before we even vaccinate a patient. We are now starting our Ii-Key vaccine GMP manufacturing process and plan to confirm our human blood screening results in clinical trials.”

Mr. Moscato continued, “The goal of our Ii-Key vaccine development program is to provide a safe, specific, and effective vaccine against COVID-19 that does not trigger off-target immune responses that are the hallmark of severe COVID-19 complications, and which may arise from other COVID vaccines that contain RNA to make the whole spike protein. From a commercial standpoint, we have a number of competitive advantages. Our Ii-Key vaccine is amino acid based - not RNA or DNA, so we offer an alternative to those who do not wish to be vaccinated with genetic material, which is especially important for kids and pregnant women. Ii-Key vaccines are comparatively easy to manufacture with standard methods and it does not need to be frozen at -80 degrees because the final vaccine product is lyophilized powder. We look forward to closing this latest distribution and licensing agreement with Bintai for Australia and New Zealand, expanding our international partnership beyond Southeast Asia to the South Pacific. And with our recently announced deal in China, Generex and NuGenerex IO are positioned as a leader in vaccine development throughout Asia.”