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VaxGen signs research deal with EndoBiologics International Corp.of Missoula

VaxGen Inc. said Wednesday it signed a Meningitis research deal with EndoBiologics International Corp., a Montana biotech.

Brisbane-based VaxGen (Pink Sheets:VXGN.PK) said the two companies will work together to seek a vaccine for Meningitis serogroup B, and that VaxGen will pay for proof-of-concept studies during the next year.

Missoula, Mont.-based EndoBiologics is a privately held company which does research for the government on a vaccine against bacterial dysentery.

Endobiologics Inc

7151 Kestrel Dr

Missoula, MT,

406-543-7909

Full Story: http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2005/05/02/daily25.html

(Thanks to the Montana Chamber of Commerce for passing this along and congratulations to EndoBilogics for their continued success.- Russ)

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EndoBiologics is battling disease and blazing biotechnology trails http://www.mtinbusiness.com/inbusiness_summer_04/bus05.html

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Missoula firm partners up for vaccine production

A small Missoula biotechnology firm announced a partnership Thursday with a California biopharmaceutical company to produce a meningitis B vaccine.

The value of the deal between EndoBiologics International Corp. and VaxGen Inc., a publicly owned company based in Brisbane, Calif., has not been released.

"In the biotech world, you can be small but powerful," said VaxGen vice president Paul Laland about EndoBiologics, which has only four scientists on staff.
The company’s power comes from its low-cost and unique vaccine production method, which uses bacteria to isolate the antigens needed to make a vaccine, said EndoBiologics president and CEO Gary Gustafson. An antigen is what spurs the body’s immune system into action.

EndoBiologics was founded in 1997 by three scientists from the University of Montana and one from the Hamilton-based Ribi Immunochem Inc., which was purchased later by Corixa Corp., Gustafson said.

By ROBERT STRUCKMAN of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2005/05/06/news/mtregional/news07.txt

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