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Altimmune (ALT) Announces FDA Clearance of AdCOVID IND Application

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Altimmune Announces FDA Clearance of AdCOVID™ IND Application

February 17, 2021 7:02 AM EST

GAITHERSBURG, Md., Feb. 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Altimmune, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALT), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Companys Investigational New Drug (IND) application for its Phase 1 clinical trial of AdCOVID, a novel, single-dose, intranasal COVID-19 vaccine candidate. Altimmune expects to commence patient enrollment in the Phase 1 clinical trial in the coming week.

We believe deployment of intranasal vaccines like AdCOVID will be essential to a successful global response to the pandemic, said Vipin K. Garg, President and... More