Plexus Vaccine Inc.
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Plexus Vaccine Inc. is a genomics-driven vaccine development company with a platform based on computational drug discovery and immunological informatics. In the near term, it is using its expertise in B-cell-based vaccines to design novel vaccines against potential biowarfare agents Yersinia pestis (plague) and anthrax, but the company believes that its platform is expandable to broad potential uses.
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