EVAX Inc

Employee size

2-10

Organization type

Privately Held

Headquarters

Morgantown, WV

Founded

2023

EVAX Inc. is the manufacturing and commercialization subsidiary of Enepret Incorporated, a company founded in 2017 to commercialize triterpene-production technologies developed at the University of Kentucky. Its lean team brings together synthetic-biology researchers and pharmaceutical manufacturing specialists to help vaccine developers move from early research into clinical work with non-animal adjuvants and their key ingredients. EVAX manufactures these materials in a 3,500-square-foot facility at the West Virginia University Innovation Corporation in Morgantown.

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