Product Programs

Our research and development activities yield product candidates that utilize our technology platform and we believe represent potential commercial opportunities. For example, preclinical research in hearing loss and balance disorders suggests delivery of the atonal gene using GenVec’s adenovector technology may have the potential to restore hearing and balance function. We are working with Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc. (together with Novartis AG and its subsidiary corporations, including Novartis Pharma AG, Novartis), on the discovery and development of novel treatments for hearing loss and balance disorders. There are currently no effective treatments available for patients who have lost all balance function, and hearing loss remains a major unmet medical problem.

In partnership with our collaborators we have multiple vaccines in development. These programs are funded by third-parties and utilize our core adenovector technology. GenVec has grant-supported preclinical programs to develop vaccine candidates for the prevention of RSV and HSV-2. In addition, we have programs with the U.S. Naval Medical Research Center to develop vaccines for dengue fever and malaria.In the field of animal health, we are working with Merial to commercialize vaccines for the prevention of a major animal health problem, FMD. Development efforts for this program are also supported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.