In 2002, the company was created and acquired the complementary peptide patent. The company raised funds and got organized as a management company in the center of an expertise and competence network of collaborations and sub-contracting companies.

In 2006, the key article showing that the MG vaccine works not only in the lab on rat models but also on naturally occurring myasthenia gravis in pet dogs is published and the MG vaccine patent is filed.

In 2007, Nicolas Havelange joined CuraVac and together, he and Dr. Huberty have taken this vaccine production technique out of the lab to bring it to patients.

In 2009, the human formulation of the MG vaccine is manufactured following GLP and GMP guidelines.
The myasthenia gravis Therapeutic Vaccine, our first vaccine, was granted Orphan Drug Designation in Europe by a team of independent experts of the 27 European member states.

In 2011, the MG therapeutic vaccine was granted Orphan Drug Designation in the USA by the FDA

In 2013, following a call for proposals that was answered by all the best medicine projects in the world, CuraVac’s project for a MG therapeutic vaccine was one of the 7 therapeutic vaccine projects that were selected by an Independent Jury Committee of the best world experts.

CuraVac then created a European consortium of four companies and one University Medical Center that received the support of the FP7 2013 Health Innovation to conduct clinical trials of the MG therapeutic vaccine: MYASTERIX.

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