Covid-19 vaccine developed by University at Buffalo, POP Biotechnologies enters human trials

Published February 1, 2021

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Business First reported that a COVID-19 vaccine developed by UB and Buffalo-based startup POP Biotechnologies has entered human clinical trials in South Korea.

The vaccine is being commercialized in partnership with EuBiologics, a publicly traded health sciences firm based in South Korea. POP Biotechnologies President Jonathan Smyth was a UB student in 2015 when he co-founded the company with UB researcher Jonathan Lovell, SUNY Empire Innovation Associate Professor of biomedical engineering.

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