Day: January 13, 2023

The partnership will bring enhanced commerce functionality to Retailers around the world.

London, England, Jan. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Flooid today announces a strategic partnership with FreedomPay, the global leader in Next Level Commerce, to bring industry-leading Retail solutions to merchants globally.

Powered by FreedomPay, Flooid allows merchants to connect their retail channels, removing barriers between online and in-store payments. FreedomPay’s data-driven commerce platform grants merchants access to valuable analytics and Business Intelligence platform to drive further customer engagement and loyalty through targeted offers and incentives, all within a frictionless integrated payment solution.

“Through this partnership with FreedomPay, we are bringing enhanced innovation, choice, and flexibility to retailers on the Flooid platform,” said Donna Stevens, Senior VP of Product and Marketing at Flooid. Our goal is to empower merchants with the tools they need to provide the best shopping experience to consumers globally.”

The FreedomPay platform enables enterprises to provide a consistent payment experience for their customers globally, creating a seamless and flexible retail experience managing security, data and loyalty all from a single, unified tech stack.

“The partnership between FreedomPay and Flooid will bring a world-class commerce experience to retailers and shoppers around the globe,” said Liesl Smith, Senior VP of Marketing and Sales Enablement at FreedomPay. “Together we are committed to delivering a seamless payment experience to customers, enabling an innovative and seamless omnichannel payment environment.”

About FreedomPay

FreedomPay’s Next Level Commerce platform transforms existing payment systems and processes from legacy to leading edge. As the premier choice for many of the largest companies across the globe in retail, hospitality, lodging, gaming, sports and entertainment, foodservice, education, healthcare and financial services, FreedomPay’s technology has been purposely built to deliver rock solid performance in the highly complex environment of global commerce. The company maintains a world-class security environment and was first to earn the coveted validation by the PCI Security Standards Council against Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE/EMV) standard in North America. FreedomPay’s robust solutions across payments, security, identity, and data analytics are available in-store, online and on-mobile and are supported by rapid API adoption. The award winning FreedomPay Commerce Platform operates on a single, unified technology stack across multiple continents allowing enterprises to deliver an innovative Next Level experience on a global scale. www.freedompay.com

About Flooid

Flooid helps retailers create the seamless shopping experiences customers demand. Flooid’s unified commerce platform empowers merchants to sell to customers flexibly and consistently wherever they are and however they choose to shop. Our best of breed open ecosystem givers retailers the power to connect leading retail tech partners with a single unified commerce platform to engage with your shoppers, sell more effectively across channels and adapt to retail shopping changes we have yet to imagine.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Sabin Vaccine Institute today announced that the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has awarded Sabin a multi-year contract with funding potential for up to $214 million to advance the development and production of single-dose vaccine candidates for Ebola Sudan and Marburg virus diseases.

There are currently no licensed vaccines against Ebola Sudan and Marburg viruses, which cause hemorrhagic fever and kill approximately half the people infected.

BARDA, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), will initially invest approximately $35 million to produce up to 100,000 doses of Sabin’s Ebola Sudan virus (ChAd3-SUDV) vaccine. These vaccines may be used as part of ongoing U.S. preparedness efforts and in response to future global outbreaks.

The Sabin vaccine was the first to arrive in Uganda during the recent Ebola Sudan virus outbreak that caused 55 deaths after the World Health Organization included it as one of three vaccines for possible use in an outbreak trial in Uganda. The country declared the Ebola Sudan outbreak had ended on January 11, four months after the first confirmed case.

“Sabin successfully delivered Ebola Sudan vaccine doses to Uganda within 79 days of the start of the outbreak – quite an impressive accomplishment,” says Sabin Chief Executive Officer Amy Finan. “This new contract enables Sabin to produce up to 100,000 doses so the world is prepared in advance for future outbreaks.”

In addition to participating in recent outbreak activities, Sabin continues its Sudan development plan and has initiated Phase 2 clinical trial planning in Uganda and Kenya. Based on previous clinical trials, Sabin’s Ebola Sudan vaccine is safe and immunogenic, and in nonhuman primate studies has demonstrated rapid protection, durability up to 12 months, and efficacy.

In addition to Sabin’s ChAd3-SUDV vaccine, the contract also includes support to manufacture Sabin’s vaccine against Marburg virus (ChAd3-MARV), which would generate doses that could also be used in trials and in response to a possible Marburg virus outbreak. As recently as last July, two people in Ghana died after being infected with Marburg virus, reinforcing the urgent need for a vaccine.

The new contract leverages a partnership with BARDA that began in 2019, when the agency awarded Sabin another multi-year contract valued at $128 million to further the development of vaccines against both the Marburg and Ebola Sudan viruses.

“BARDA has been a supportive partner as we take these essential steps in pandemic preparedness,” said Finan. “The Ebola Sudan outbreak in Uganda underscored the critical need for readily available solutions. We’ll now have ample material to respond quickly to such an outbreak in the future.”

This project will be funded in whole with federal funds from the Department of Health and Human Services; Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response; Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, under contract number 75A50123C00010.

About the Sabin Vaccine Institute

The Sabin Vaccine Institute is a leading advocate for expanding vaccine access and uptake globally, advancing vaccine research and development, and amplifying vaccine knowledge and innovation. Unlocking the potential of vaccines through partnership, Sabin has built a robust ecosystem of funders, innovators, implementers, practitioners, policy makers and public stakeholders to advance its vision of a future free from preventable diseases. As a non-profit with three decades of experience, Sabin is committed to finding solutions that last and extending the full benefits of vaccines to all people, regardless of who they are or where they live. At Sabin, we believe in the power of vaccines to change the world. For more information, visit www.sabin.org and follow us on Twitter, @SabinVaccine.

About Ebola Sudan and Marburg

Ebola Sudan and Marburg are members of the filovirus family. Both can cause severe hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates. No therapeutic treatment of these hemorrhagic fevers has been licensed to date. Marburg and Ebola viruses are transmitted to humans by infected animals, particularly fruit bats. Once a human is infected, the virus can spread to others through close personal contact or contact with bodily fluids. Isolation of infected people is currently the centerpiece of filovirus control.

Marburg was the first filovirus to be recognized in 1967 when outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever were reported in a few Europe-based laboratories including in the town of Marburg, Germany. Ebola was identified in 1976 when two simultaneous outbreaks occurred in northern Zaire (now the DRC) in a village near the Ebola River and in southern Sudan. The outbreaks involved what eventually proved to be two different species of Ebola virus; both were named after the nations in which they were discovered.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — O Sabin Vaccine Institute anunciou hoje que a Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) fechou com a Sabin um contrato plurianual com potencial de financiamento de até US $ 214 milhões para o avanço do desenvolvimento e da produção de vacinas candidatas à dose única para as doenças causadas pelos vírus Ebola Sudão e Marburg.

Atualmente não existem vacinas licenciadas contra os vírus Ebola Sudão e Marburg, que causam febre hemorrágica e matam aproximadamente metade das pessoas infectadas.

A BARDA, parte da Administração de Preparação e Resposta Estratégica (ASPR) do Departamento de Saúde e Serviços Humanos dos EUA, investirá inicialmente aproximadamente US $ 35 milhões para produzir até 100.000 doses da vacina da Sabin contra o vírus Ebola Sudão (ChAd3-SUDV). Essas vacinas podem ser usadas como parte dos esforços contínuos de preparação dos EUA e em resposta a futuros surtos globais.

A vacina Sabin foi a primeira a chegar a Uganda durante o recente surto do vírus Ebola no Sudão que causou 55 mortes, depois que a Organização Mundial de Saúde a incluiu como uma das três vacinas para possível uso em um teste de surto em Uganda. O país declarou que o surto de Ebola no Sudão havia terminado em 11 de janeiro, quatro meses após o primeiro caso confirmado.

“A Sabin entregou com sucesso a Uganda doses da vacina contra o Ebola Sudão em 79 dias depois do início do surto – uma conquista impressionante”, disse a Diretora Executiva da Sabin, Amy Finan. “Este novo contrato permite que a Sabin produza até 100.000 doses para que o mundo esteja preparado com antecedência para futuros surtos.”

Além de participar de atividades recentes de surto, a Sabin continua seu plano de desenvolvimento no Sudão e iniciou a Fase 2 de planejamento de ensaios clínicos em Uganda e no Quênia. Com base em ensaios clínicos anteriores, a vacina contra o Ebola Sudão da Sabin é segura e imunogênica, e em estudos com primatas não humanos demonstrou proteção rápida, durabilidade de até 12 meses e eficácia.

Além da vacina ChAd3-SUDV da Sabin, o contrato também inclui suporte para a fabricação da vacina da Sabin contra o vírus Marburg (ChAd3-MARV), que podem gerar doses que podem ser usadas em testes e em resposta a um possível surto do vírus Marburg. Em Julho passado, duas pessoas em Gana morreram depois de terem sido infectadas com o vírus Marburg, e isso demonstra claramente a necessidade urgente da criação de vacinas.

O novo contrato alavanca uma parceria com a BARDA que teve início em 2019, quando a agência fechou com a Sabin outro contrato de vários anos com um valor de US $ 128 milhões para o desenvolvimento de vacinas contra os vírus Marburg e Ebola Sudão.

“A BARDA tem sido parceira de apoio às nossas medidas essenciais para a preparação para a pandemia”, disse Finan. “O surto de Ebola Sudão em Uganda ressaltou a necessidade vital de soluções prontamente disponíveis. E teremos amplo material para responder rapidamente a esse surto no futuro.”

Este projeto será financiado, no todo, com fundos federais do Departamento de Saúde e Serviços Humanos; Administração para Preparação e Resposta Estratégica; Autoridade de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Avançado Biomédico, sob o contrato número 75A50123C00010.

Sobre o Sabin Vaccine Institute

O Sabin Vaccine Institute é um dos principais defensores da expansão do acesso e uso de vacinas em todo o mundo, do avanço da pesquisa e desenvolvimento de vacinas e da ampliação do conhecimento e inovação das vacinas. Revelando o potencial das vacinas através da parceria, o Sabin criou um ecossistema robusto de financiadores, inovadores, implementadores, profissionais, formuladores de políticas e partes interessadas públicas para avançar sua visão de um futuro livre de doenças evitáveis. Como uma organização sem fins lucrativos com três décadas de experiência, o Sabin está empenhado em encontrar soluções duradouras que levem todos os benefícios das vacinas a todas as pessoas, independentemente de quem sejam ou de onde vivem. No Sabin, acreditamos no poder das vacinas para mudar o mundo. Para mais informação, visite www.sabin.org e siga-nos no Twitter, @SabinVaccine.

Sobre a Ebola Sudão e Marburg

Ebola Sudão e Marburg são membros da família dos filovírus. Ambos podem causar febre hemorrágica grave em seres humanos e primatas não humanos. Nenhum tratamento terapêutico das febres hemorrágicas foi licenciado até o momento. Os vírus Marburg e Ebola são transmitidos aos seres humanos por animais infectados, particularmente pelos morcegos-fruta. Uma vez infectada, uma pessoa pode transmitir o vírus para outras pessoas através do contato pessoal próximo ou com fluidos corporais. O isolamento das pessoas infectadas atualmente é a parte central do controle do filovírus.

O Marburg foi o primeiro filovírus a ser identificado em 1967, quando surtos de febre hemorrágica foram relatados em alguns laboratórios da Europa, incluindo na cidade de Marburg, Alemanha. A ebola foi identificada em 1976, quando dois surtos simultâneos ocorreram no norte do Zaire (agora RDC) em uma aldeia perto do rio Ebola e sul do Sudão. Os surtos envolveram o que eventualmente provou ser duas espécies diferentes do vírus Ebola; ambos receberam o nome nações em que foram descobertos.

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Sabin Vaccine Institute
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WASHINGTON, 12 janv. 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Le Sabin Vaccine Institute a annoncé aujourd’hui que la Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) avait attribué à Sabin un contrat pluriannuel avec un potentiel de financement pouvant atteindre 214 millions de dollars pour faire progresser le développement et la production de candidats vaccins à dose unique pour les maladies que causent les virus Ebola-Soudan et Marburg.

Il n’existe actuellement aucun vaccin autorisé contre les virus Ebola-Soudan et Marburg, qui causent des fièvres hémorragiques et tuent à peu près la moitié des personnes infectées.

La BARDA, qui fait partie de l’Administration pour la préparation et la réponse stratégiques (Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, ASPR) du Département de la Santé et des Services sociaux des États-Unis, investira au départ environ 35 millions de dollars pour produire jusqu’à 100 000 doses de vaccin de Sabin contre le virus Ebola-Soudan (ChAd3-SUDV). Ces vaccins pourront être utilisés dans le cadre des efforts actuels de préparation des États-Unis et en réponse aux futures épidémies mondiales.

Le vaccin de Sabin a été le premier à arriver en Ouganda lors de la récente épidémie de virus Ebola-Soudan qui a tué 55 personnes après que l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé l’a inclus comme l’un des trois vaccins pouvant être utilisés dans un essai contre les cas d’épidémie en Ouganda. Le pays a déclaré que l’épidémie d’Ebola-Soudan s’était terminée le 11 janvier, quatre mois après le premier cas confirmé.

« Sabin est parvenue à fournir des doses de vaccin contre l’Ebola-Soudan en Ouganda dans les 79 jours qui ont suivi le début de l’épidémie, ce qui est réellement impressionnant », a commenté Amy Finan, présidente-directrice générale de Sabin. « Ce nouveau contrat permet à Sabin de produire jusqu’à 100 000 doses afin que le monde soit préparé à l’avance aux futures épidémies. »

En plus de participer aux récentes activités contre les épidémies, Sabin poursuit son plan de développement au Soudan et a initié la planification d’un essai clinique de phase 2 en Ouganda et au Kenya. Sur la base des précédents essais cliniques, le vaccin de Sabin contre l’Ebola-Soudan est sûr et immunogène, et lors d’études sur des primates non humains, il a démontré son efficacité, sa protection à action rapide et sa durabilité jusqu’à 12 mois.

Outre le vaccin ChAd3-SUDV de Sabin, le contrat comprend aussi un soutien à la fabrication du vaccin de Sabin contre le virus Marburg (ChAd3-MARV), consistant en la production de doses pouvant également être utilisées dans des essais et en réponse à une possible épidémie de virus Marburg. Pas plus tard qu’en juillet de cette année, deux personnes sont mortes au Ghana après avoir été infectées par le virus Marburg, renforçant ainsi le besoin urgent d’un vaccin.

Le nouveau contrat s’appuie sur un partenariat avec la BARDA qui a débuté en 2019, lorsque l’agence a attribué à Sabin un autre contrat pluriannuel d’une valeur de 128 millions de dollars pour poursuivre le développement de vaccins contre les virus Marburg et Ebola-Soudan.

« L’aide que nous apporte la BARDA en tant que partenaire est inestimable alors que nous prenons ces mesures essentielles pour nous préparer aux pandémies », a ajouté Mme Finan. « L’épidémie d’Ebola-Soudan en Ouganda a souligné qu’il était réellement crucial de disposer de solutions prêtes à l’emploi. Nous possèderons désormais des ressources suffisantes pour réagir rapidement à une telle épidémie à l’avenir. »

Ce projet sera financé en totalité par des fonds fédéraux du Département de la Santé et des Services sociaux, l’Administration pour la préparation et la réponse stratégiques et la Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, sous le contrat numéro 75A50123C00010.

À propos du Sabin Vaccine Institute

Le Sabin Vaccine Institute est l’un des principaux défenseurs de l’élargissement de l’accès aux vaccins et de leur adoption à l’échelle mondiale, de l’avancement de la recherche et du développement de vaccins et de l’amplification des connaissances et de l’innovation en matière de vaccins. Libérant le potentiel des vaccins par le partenariat, Sabin a bâti un écosystème robuste de bailleurs de fonds, innovateurs, agents de mise en œuvre, praticiens, décideurs politiques et parties prenantes publiques pour faire avancer sa vision d’un avenir où les maladies évitables ont enfin disparu. En tant qu’organisation sans but lucratif comptant trois décennies d’expérience, Sabin s’est engagée à trouver des solutions qui durent et à étendre tous les bienfaits des vaccins à l’ensemble des individus, peu importe qui ils sont et où ils résident. Chez Sabin, nous sommes convaincus que les vaccins ont le pouvoir de changer le monde. Pour de plus amples informations, rendez-vous sur le site www.sabin.org et suivez-nous sur Twitter, @SabinVaccine.

À propos des virus Ebola-Soudan et Marburg

Ebola-Soudan et Marburg font partie de la famille des filovirus. Les deux peuvent causer des fièvres hémorragiques sévères chez l’humain et les primates non humains. Aucun traitement thérapeutique de ces fièvres hémorragiques n’a été autorisé à ce jour. Les virus Marburg et Ebola sont transmis aux humains par des animaux infectés, en particulier les chauves-souris frugivores. Une fois qu’un être humain est infecté, ces virus peuvent se propager à d’autres par le biais d’un contact personnel étroit ou d’un contact avec des fluides corporels. L’isolation des personnes infectées constitue actuellement la principale stratégie pour contrôler les filovirus.

Marburg a été le premier filovirus à être reconnu en 1967 lorsque des épidémies de fièvre hémorragique ont été signalées dans plusieurs laboratoires basés en Europe, y compris dans la ville de Marbourg, en Allemagne. Le virus Ebola a été identifié en 1976 lorsque deux épidémies se sont produites simultanément dans le nord du Zaïre (devenu la RDC), dans un village près de la rivière Ebola et dans le sud du Soudan. Ces épidémies ont impliqué ce qui s’est finalement avéré être deux espèces différentes de virus Ebola ; chacune devant son nom à la nation dans laquelle elle a été découverte.

Pour toute demande des médias :

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Contact auprès des médias :
Monika Guttman
Spécialiste des relations avec les médias
Sabin Vaccine Institute
+1 (202) 662-1841
press@sabin.org

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