Sanaria Inc. Receives U.S. Army Award for Development of its Malaria Vaccine

ROCKVILLE, MD – Sanaria Inc., a Rockville, Maryland privately held company focused on development of an attenuated whole parasite Malaria Vaccine announced the receipt of a $4.09 million research and development award from the United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity Group in Fort Detrick, Maryland.

Malaria causes more than 500 million clinical cases and one million deaths annually, the majority in children in Africa. Whenever the U.S. military has been deployed to an area with significant malaria transmission during the past 150 years, malaria has been responsible for more casualties than hostile fire. Malaria vaccine development is a major humanitarian and military objective.

Stephen L. Hoffman, M.D., CEO of Sanaria Inc., noted, “These funds, combined with grants from the NIH and a grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the Institute for OneWorld Health, will allow us to complete the establishment and validation of our manufacturing process. We are now working to raise the substantial funding needed to manufacture the vaccine, conduct studies in support of an investigational new drug application to the Food and Drug Administration, and complete the clinical trials in volunteers planned to begin in 2006. Malaria vaccine development is a difficult process. We are particularly grateful for Senator Barbara Mikulski’s support for malaria vaccine research and development.”

Sanaria Inc. was founded in 2003. Its mission is to develop, commercialize, and distribute an attenuated malaria sporozoite vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum, the malaria parasite responsible for more than 95 percent of malaria-associated severe illness and death world- wide, and the malaria parasite for which there is the most significant drug resistance. For more information see https://www.sanaria.com.

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