On Dec. 3, 2020, Inovio Pharmaceuticals announced the execution of an agreement with Kaneka Eurogentec an affiliate of Kaneka Corp., for Eurogentec to manufacture INOVIO’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate INO-4800 at their industry-leading GMP plasmid production scales. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Kaneka Eurogentec joins existing partners Thermo Fisher Scientific, Richter-Helm BioLogics and Ology Biosciences in INOVIO’s global manufacturing consortium. Each contract development and manufacturing organization that has been selected to join the consortium is compliant with commercial GMP standards and capable of supporting INOVIO’s future large-scale global manufacturing needs across its portfolio of DNA medicines and vaccines