Distributed Bio cofounder Jacob Glanville’s new venture, Centivax, just raised a seed round to lay a foundation for human trials of its promising vaccine platform.
to get a flu shot and you’ll probably hear a similar story from a reluctant pal: “Last time I got the shot, I still got the flu!” Your friend probably isn’t lying: while your seasonal flu vaccine will help spare you the worst brunt of the disease , they aren’t always that great at preventing you from getting sick in the first place. That can make your annual trip to the pharmacy to get one seem like an even worse chore.
Fixing this problem is why Glanville founded his San Francisco-based company, which on Wednesday announced it has raised a $10 million seed funding round co-led by NFX and Global Health Investment Corporation. Centivax’s mission is to develop “universal” vaccines against the flu, Covid and other fast-mutating diseases that provide broad, enduring and “future-proof” protection against viral mutations. Ideally, this could mean fewer or even no boosters in the future.
After dilution, the strains of flu are then combined. The idea here is that while each individual strain is diluted, the dose of viral proteins that all of them havewill be strengthened to the point where an immune response happens and antibodies are produced. This antibody would, in theory, attacks all of those flu strains plus those that are related to them, because it’s attacking the part of the virus that they all have in common.
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