US Patent Issued to GeoVax on June 17 for "Compositions and methods for generating an immune response to treat or prevent malaria" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,808, issued on June 17, was assigned to GeoVax Inc. (Smyrna, Ga.).

"Compositions and methods for generating an immune response to treat or prevent malaria" was invented by Farshad Guirakhoo (Atlanta), Arban Domi (Atlanta) and Nathanael Paul McCurley (Decatur, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The compositions and methods are described for generating an immune response to a Plasmodium antigen. The compositions and methods described herein relate to a modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) vector encoding one or more viral antigens for generating a protective immune response to malaria by expressing the Plasmodium antigen in the subject to wh...