Oct 11, 2010 - Dynavax Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: DVAX) said that Dr. William L. Heyward, Vice President, Clinical Development, will make an oral presentation of new data from a subset of diabetes subjects evaluated as part of the company's previously reported multicenter, observer-blinded phase 3 study. The PHAST (Phase 3 HeplisAv Short-regimen Trial) study compared two doses of HEPLISAV (20ug HBsAg combined with 3000ug 1018 immunostimulatory sequence, Dynavax's Toll-like receptor agonist) given at 0 and 4 weeks (placebo at 24 weeks) to three doses of Engerix-B given at 0, 4 and 24 weeks. The presentation will be made in a late-breaker session on October 23, 2010 at the Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) in Vancouver, British Columbia.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has been studying the hepatitis B infection rates among diabetics and in long-term care facilities for quite some time. Later this month, ACIP will consider a recommendation for hepatitis B vaccination of adults with diabetes. Diabetics are at risk for hepatitis B infection and once infected, their disease frequently results in more severe chronic illness. Multiple outbreaks of hepatitis B among diabetics have occurred over the last several years in long-term care facilities, but prevention by vaccine has been complicated by the fact that diabetics are not routinely immunized and commonly do not respond well to currently licensed hepatitis B vaccines... Dynavax Technologies' Press Release -
