- With most of Evaxion's strategic milestones for 2024 now successfully achieved, the company announces milestones for 2025
- The 2025 key milestones reflect all parts of Evaxion's strategy for value realization
- Evaxion expects to discuss the milestones at an investor event in the first quarter of 2025
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, December 9, 2024 - Evaxion Biotech A/S (NASDAQ: EVAX) ("Evaxion"), a clinical-stage TechBio company specializing in developing AI-Immunology powered vaccines, announces its strategic milestones for 2025 after having now achieved almost all the milestones set for 2024.
The 2025 milestones reflect Evaxion's high activity level, broad pipeline and strong external interest in potential partnerships around both our AI-Immunology platform and pipeline assets. As such, the milestones underscore our continued anticipated strategic progress.
"We have been very successful in executing our strategy and plans throughout 2024. This makes us excited and confident looking into 2025, as reflected in the milestones for the year. In essence, our strategy for value creation is unchanged and so is our daily focus on executing this strategy to the benefit of shareholders, patients and employees," says Christian Kanstrup, CEO of Evaxion.
Evaxion's overriding priorities are execution upon our business development strategy, continuation of the ongoing EVX-01 phase 2 trial, the ongoing strengthening of our AI-Immunology platform and further advancement of our research activities, including progressing our ERV-based precision vaccine concept towards clinical development. Finally, the focus is, of course, on advancing our existing partnerships, including bringing the MSD collaboration, entered in September 2024, to option exercise.
All this is reflected in the 2025 milestones as listed below. Evaxion expects to discuss the milestones at an investor event in the first quarter of 2025.
| Milestones | Target | |
| AI-Immunology | Launch of automated lead vaccine candidate design module | H2 |
| Business development and partnerships | At least two new agreements | 2025 |
| EVX-01 | All patients completed EVX-01 dosing | H1 |
| EVX-01 | Supplemental phase 2 biomarker and immunogenicity data | H1 |
| EVX-01 | Two-year phase 2 clinical efficacy readout | H2 |
| Precision ERV cancer vaccines | Selection of lead vaccine candidate | H2 |
| MSD vaccine collaboration (EVX-B2/EVX-B3) | MSD option exercise, up to USD 10 million option exercise fee | H2 |
| EVX-V1 | Lead antigens selected for CMV vaccine candidate | H2 |
| Infectious diseases | Two new pipeline candidates | 1 in H1, 1 in H2 |
Contact information
Evaxion Biotech A/S
Mads Kronborg
Vice President, Investor Relations & Communication
+45 53 54 82 96
mak@evaxion-biotech.com
About EVAXION
Evaxion Biotech A/S is a pioneering TechBio company based upon its AI platform, AI-Immunology. Evaxion's proprietary and scalable AI prediction models harness the power of artificial intelligence to decode the human immune system and develop novel immunotherapies for cancer, bacterial diseases, and viral infections. Based upon AI-Immunology, Evaxion has developed a clinical-stage oncology pipeline of novel personalized vaccines and a preclinical infectious disease pipeline in bacterial and viral diseases with high unmet medical needs. Evaxion is committed to transforming patients' lives by providing innovative and targeted treatment options. For more information about Evaxion and its groundbreaking AI-Immunology platform and vaccine pipeline, please visit our website.
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