Voltron Therapeutics (HaloVax) ^Company

Voltron subsidiary HaloVax and Hoth Therapeutics said April 2 they entered into a Sponsored Research Agreement with the Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center (VIC) of Massachusetts General Hospital to co-develop a new vaccine designed to protect patients at risk of COVID-19 infection, applying the Self-Assembling Vaccine (SAV) platform developed by the VIC and licensed exclusively to Voltron.
On March 27, Hoth and HaloVax said they agreed to jointly develop a salf-assembling vaccine to develop a vaccine designed to protect patients at risk COVID-19. The companies said the technology initially showed proof of concept in Lassa Fever, with support from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).

Hoth and Voltron said they formed HaloVax, a joint venture, to begin preclinical studies for COVID-19 vaccine candidates with support from MGH. VaxCelerate—which consists of a fixed immune adjuvant and a variable immune target and offers several potential advantages over other compounds in combination therapy. In infectious applications, it allows rapid development against viruses and other pathogens. The vaccine focuses on both DNA and internal/external mutated proteins providing the immune system with more potential targets to attack.