ExpreS2ion Biotechnologies is a Danish biotechnology company specialised in the development of new

vaccine A vaccine is a biological Dosage form, preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease, infectious or cancer, malignant disease. The safety and effectiveness of vaccines has been widely studied and verifi ...

s and

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products based in

Hørsholm Hørsholm () is an urban area on the Øresund coast approximately north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It covers most of Hørsholm Municipality and straddles the borders neighbouring Fredensborg Municipality and Rudersdal Municipality. Hørsholm proper ...

Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...

and listed on the

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Growth Market

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. ExpreS2ion is part of the PREVENT-nCoV consortium comprising AdaptVac (a joint-venture between ExpreS2ion Biotechnologies and the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University. ...

spin-out NextGen Vaccines),

Leiden University Medical Center Leiden University Medical Center (Dutch: ''Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum'') or LUMC is the university hospital affiliated with Leiden University, of which it forms the medical faculty. It is located in Leiden, Netherlands. LUMC is a modern u ...

Institute for Tropical Medicine Tübingen The Institute for Tropical Medicine, Travel Medicine, and Human Parasitology (Institut für Tropenmedizin, Reisemedizin, Humanparasitolgie, (ITM)) specializes in infectious diseases, tropical diseases and human parasitosis. With a staff of about 100 ...

, the Department of Immunology and Microbiology (ISIM) at the University of Copenhagen, and the Laboratory of Virology at

Wageningen University and Research Wageningen University & Research (also known as WUR) is a public university, public research university in Wageningen, Netherlands, specializing in life sciences with a focus on agriculture, technical and engineering subjects. It is a globally i ...

. In March 2020 the consortium was awarded an EU

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grant of €2.7million for the development of a

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candidate, of which ExpreS2ion was funded with €0.88million.

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External links

ExpreS2ion Biotechnologies website
Biotechnology companies of Denmark Companies listed on Nasdaq Stockholm {{Denmark-company-stub