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2002 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- GenVec, Inc., (GNVC), a biopharmaceutical company developing gene-based medicines, announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2002. GenVec reported a net loss of $6.4 million or ($0.29) per share compared with a net loss of $3.3 million or ($0.18) per share in the comparable quarter of 2001. GenVec ended the first quarter of 2002 with $34.4 million in cash and investments.
Revenues for the quarter ended March 31, 2002 were $628,000 compared with $2.0 million for the same period last year. Revenue for the current quarter was primarily attributable to the commencement of activities under the company's new $10.2 million collaboration with the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under which GenVec will use its proprietary adenovector technology for the development and manufacture of clinical grade preventative AIDS vaccine candidates.
The overall decline in revenue was due to the absence of payments under the company's research and development agreement with Pfizer, Inc. Under the terms of the 1997 agreement, Pfizer will be responsible for all development costs associated with the phase II clinical trials of BioBypass through July 22, 2002, including the costs related to the orderly transfer to GenVec of the investigational new drug (IND) applications for both the coronary artery disease and ...
Source: HighBeam Research, First quarter 2002 performance: net loss of $0.29 per share.(GenVec...