Develop a full range of vaccine types and applications with professionals from Covance who understand the challenges and complexities of vaccines as preventative, immunizing or therapeutic agents:

• Vaccine development
• Characterization
• Testing
• Validation

DNA vaccines

• Hold promise for revolutionizing human immunization
• Require extensive testing
  • biodistribution studies

Recombinant protein vaccines

• Great potential against HIV and other infectious agents
• Require extensive testing
• Raw material testing
• Cell bank testing
• Monitor bulk harvest
• Assessment of stability, safety, security and storage

Bacterial vaccines (whole cell or subunit)

• Characterization and testing challenges
• Whole cell purity analysis
• Wide range of specific Covance HPLC and mass spectrometry (MALDI-ToF) methods and techniques for testing
• Protein characterization for subunit vaccines

Viral vaccines

• Benefit from advances in recombinant DNA technology
• Safety enhanced by adventitious viruses and retroviruses testing
• Require biotechnology testing