NanoViricides, Inc. Appoints Andrew Hahn as Consultant for Design and Construction of Pilot cGMP Production Facility
May 14, 2012 at 04:30 pm IST
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NanoViricides, Inc. announced that it has retained the services of Mr. Andrew Hahn to help with the overall design and construction of its laboratory and cGMP pilot production facility. This facility will be built by renovating an existing 18,000 sqft light manufacturing plant on a 4.2 acre lot in Shelton, CT. Mr. Hahn will help the Company in the overall design, architecture, engineering, and construction of the whole facility that includes the cGMP facility, laboratories, and office spaces. Mr. Hahn recently retired as the Senior Director of Engineering, Pharmaceutical Facilities, Global Engineering, at the Bristol-Myers-Squibb Company Worldwide Medicines Group (BMS). He has almost 30 years of experience in architecture, design and project management in the creation of new and refurbished facilities at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. Of importance to the Company's project, he was responsible for the worldwide design and construction of pharmaceutical plants, pilot plants and clinical supply facilities as well as research laboratories and offices while at BMS.
NanoViricides, Inc. is a development stage company, which is creating special purpose nanomaterials for antiviral therapy. The Company's novel nanoviricide class of drug candidates are designed to specifically attack enveloped virus particles and to dismantle them. Its lead drug candidate is NV-CoV-2 (API NV-387) for the treatment of COVID-19 disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Its other advanced candidate is NV-HHV-1 for the treatment of Shingles. NV-CoV-2 is its nanoviricide drug candidate for COVID-19 containing the nanoviricide API, NV-387. NV-CoV-2-R is its other drug candidate for COVID-19, which is made up of NV-387 with remdesivir encapsulated within its polymeric micelles. It has developed both of its own drug candidates, NV-CoV-2 and NV-CoV-2-R independently. It is also developing drugs against a number of viral diseases, including RSV, oral and genital Herpes, viral diseases of the eye, including EKC and herpes keratitis, H1N1 swine flu, H5N1 bird flu and others.