Mr. Jung-Jin Seo, Chairman and CEO of Celltrion, stated that, "We are very excited with these results, and we will do our best to move forward as quickly as possible into clinical trials with a view to bringing this new product to the clinic in record time.  We are very pleased to collaborate with the U.S. CDC, Severance Hospital and SC World, Inc. on this important public health initiative."

This type of innovative new biological product with broad efficacy against multiple potentially pandemic influenza viruses from animals could transform pandemic preparedness and influenza control strategies. Globally, approximately one billion people are infected by influenza viruses annually, with eight million people being hospitalized every year. In addition, the new antibody screening platform technology used to develop these therapeutic antibodies, can be applied to new therapeutics for other infectious disease.

SOURCE Celltrion, Inc.