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In the first deal for the product, CSL has acquired the right of first refusal to a licence to commercialise Pevion Biotech's therapeutic vaccine against Candida albicans, PEV7, in Australia and New Zealand.

Pevion Biotech has appointed the former president of Sanofi-Pasteur MSD, Didier Hoch, to its board of directors. Mr Hoch served in the president role at Sanofi-Pasteur MSD from 2000-10, and has previously worked as vice-president Africa & Middle East at Aventis Pharma International and deputy general manager at Rhône-Poulenc Rorer France. Pevion is a Swiss vaccine company developing vaccines based on its virosome technology.