J. Joseph Kim, President and CEO of Inovio, said, "We clearly demonstrated the power and speed of our product development platform when we and our collaborators moved our Zika vaccine from the bench to human clinical studies in less than six months, a vaccine industry record. We're pleased to now build further evidence of the potential utility of our product." "Our results support the critical importance of immune responses for both preventing infection as well as ameliorating disease caused by the Zika virus," said lead researcher David B. Weiner, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Director of the Vaccine Center at The Wistar Institute and the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Professor in Cancer Research at Wistar. Dr. Weiner is also a member of Inovio's board of directors and chairs its scientific advisory board. "As the threat of Zika continues, these results further encourage the study of this vaccine as a preventative approach for protecting humans."