GlycoVaxyn pulls in $9.3M for conjugated vaccines
Zurich’s GlycoVaxyn, a biotech developing new “conjugated vaccines”, raised a $9.3 million first funding round. Sofinnova Partners and Index Ventures supplied the investment.
The company will use the funding to push forward with the development of vaccines for bacterial infections, and plans to begin clinical trials by 2009.
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