Tonix Pharmaceuticals CEO Dr. Seth Lederman joined Steve Darling from Proactive to announce that the company has been awarded a grant from the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium to support the continued development of its next-generation vaccine candidate. MCDC is a consortium comprising industrial, academic, and non-profit organizations that assist the U.S. government in advancing medical solutions to protect against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats. Dr. Lederman explained that the vaccine candidate is being developed as an improved immunization option for mpox and smallpox, with the potential for delivery via innovative alternative methods designed to enhance patient compliance, ease of administration, and overall tolerability. The MCDC grant will support comprehensive market analyses, target market identification, and commercialization planning for both private and government sectors. The investigational vaccine is a minimally replicating live-virus formulation based on a modified orthopoxvirus. It has demonstrated the ability to provide single-dose immune protection against mpox in preclinical studies while offering improved tolerability compared to traditional live-virus vaccines. Previous studies have also shown its effectiveness in protecting animals from lethal intratracheal exposure to a more virulent strain of the mpox virus. Tonix is currently preparing for Phase 1 clinical trials in both the United States and Kenya. Kenya, which is on the outskirts of an MPOX outbreak in Africa, presents an opportunity to test the vaccine in an area with a growing case burden. #proactiveinvestors #tonixpharmaceuticalsholdingcorp #nasdaq #tnxp #Biotech #MPOXVaccine #Smallpox #TNX801 #VaccineDevelopment #ClinicalTrials #PharmaceuticalNews #MedicalResearch #WHO #GlobalHealth #InfectiousDiseases #Biopharma #ProactiveInvestors