Positioned to Solve the World-wide Pandemic Existential Crisis

In 2009, Dr. Reid Rubsamen invented the revolutionary key to getting the T-cell side of the human immune system to defeat cancers and pandemic-causing viruses. T-cell vaccine platforms to be efficacious depend on the ability to reliably deliver killer T-cells to hit the right target to elicit a continuing killer T-cell response to destroy the enemy.  Dr. Rubsamen’s FlowVax solution addresses the issues with past T-cell vaccine platforms making it possible to finally harness the T-cell side of the immune system to kill foreign invaders like COVID.  There is no greater problem to solve on our planet now than defeating this world-wide pandemic – and now is the time for a 21^st century solution.

Reid Rubsamen, MD, MS, MHCM, CEO and founder of Strategic Vaccines and Flow Pharma – (Berkeley, AB Biochemistry & Computer Science; Stanford, MD & MS Computer Science; Harvard Mass General, Anesthesiology Residency; MIT, NIH funded fellowship Computer Science; Harvard Master in Healthcare Management; 71 issued US patents) – Twenty years ago, after developing inhaled insulin delivery for diabetes – Dr. Reid Rubsamen formed Flow Pharma Inc, a Biotech R&D company, and twelve years ago began the research ultimately resulting in the revolutionary FlowVax targeted killer T-Cell vaccine platform to address viruses that he believed would not be defeated by 20^th century antibody vaccines. 

We understand that trust is a primary issue required to support another approach (revolutionary or not) to combatting Covid-19 and the variants. And, for many, it is especially difficult to trust a radical departure from the available vaccines based on trusted 20^th century antibody platforms. Reid founded a new vaccine company based on research he began 20 years ago to develop a reliable way to use the T-cell side of our immune system to combat cancers, and viruses he postulated decades ago that would emerge someday to cause another pandemic. The more you know about Reid’s significant accomplishments to advance medical knowledge, how he has dedicated his life to saving lives, all the knowledge he has acquired in pursuit of better ways to deal with diabetes, and combatting cancer, and why he and the Flow/Strategic team are prepared to defeat a virus like COVID-19 – the more you’ll be able to trust that Strategic Vaccines is prepared to defeat COVID-19. 

When COVID-19 hit American shores in March of 2020, Flow Pharma formed Strategic Vaccines LLC to deploy Dr. Rubsamen’s revolutionary targeted killer T-Cell platform which was ready and available to defeat COVID-19.  At that time government agencies concerned for public health were focused on Big Pharma. Dr. Rubsamen, having previously been awarded two defense contracts for Marburg vaccine (a weaponized version of Ebola), presented at BARDA Tech Watch early during the pandemic.  BARDA had no interest in funding Dr. Rubsamen’s request for only $25M to develop and test his targeted T-cell COVID-19 vaccine.  Antibody vaccine platforms were viewed as the most expedient warp speed path, based on historical data and existing faith in antibody platforms.

Informed scientists know that NIH funded the Wuhan lab and it was engaged in gain of function virus research.  And because Covid-19 does not behave like past corona viruses, many believe SARS-CoV-2 is a lab engineered gain of function virus designed to suppress/evade defeat.

Reid, in the past, has conducted Phase I clinical trials in Australia and, like many other US Pharma CEOs, recognized the financial, regulatory and operational benefits of conducting Phase I trials there.  In 2018, he set up Flow Pharma Australia PTY LTD to take full advantage of being able to conduct clinical testing in Australia.  Reid and the Strategic team are working with our well-respected prominent Australian colleagues to finalize the information needed for Australia to reach a decision on our clinical tests going forward, so we believe we are on the landing path.

After Flow Pharma developed an Ebola vaccine successfully tested in mice at the Galveston US National Lab, the US Department of Defense awarded contracts in 2018 to Flow Pharma to make a targeted T-Cell vaccine to combat Marburg, a weaponized version of Ebola, “to protect warfighters.”  When COVID-19 hit our shores in March of 2020, Flow Pharma was prepared to quickly design and manufacture a vaccine for COVID-19, also successfully tested at the Galveston National Lab, this time in rhesus macaques, which have the closest immune systems to humans. Each of the Galveston studies was published in peer reviewed journals (PMID: 32418793, PMID: 34070152). So Flow Pharma formed Strategic Vaccines LLC to deploy Dr. Rubsamen’s FlowVax targeted killer T-Cell platform which was ready and available to defeat COVID-19 in a world war against this lethal lab created coronavirus. 

WHERE ARE WE NOW: 

August 19, 2021: In Los Angeles, Breakthrough Infections Are Now 30% Of All New Covid Cases Amid Delta Surge.  https://deadline.com/2021/08/los-angeles-breakthrough-infections-covid-amount-cases-1234818477/

July 30, 2021: Investigators in Chile conclude that the lambda COVID-19 variant is not only more infectious than standard SARS-CoV-2, but could also possibly shrug off vaccines. The first case in the United States has been spotted at Houston Methodist Hospital. https://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/lambda-variant-of-covid-19-might-be-resistant-to-vaccines

 August 17, 2021: Frank Diamond: COVID-19 Booster Shots Alone Might Not Stop Delta and Other Variants: Beware of putting too much hope in booster shots. The way back to our normal lives involves a multi-pronged approach to infection prevention. https://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/covid-19-booster-shots-alone-might-not-stop-delta-and-other-variants (a former commander in the navy remarked: “booster shots are like firing at a jet going faster than the speed of sound and hitting the Doppler effect”)

• Reduced sensitivity of SARS-CoV-2 variant Delta to antibody neutralization: Article Published: 08 July 2021; “The SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617 lineage was identified in October 2020 in India…It has since then become dominant in some Indian regions and UK and further spread to many countries…Variant Delta was resistant to neutralization by some anti-NTD and anti-RBD mAbs including Bamlanivimab, which were impaired in binding to the Spike.”
• Jun 25, 2021 — TEL AVIV TEL AVIV—About half of adults infected in an outbreak of the Delta variant of Covid-19 in Israel were fully inoculated with the Pfizer Inc. vaccine, prompting the government to reimpose an indoor mask requirement and other measures to contain the highly transmissible strain.
• Pfizer Vaccine Less Effective Against Delta Infections but Prevents Severe Illness, Israeli Data Show, by Dov Lieber, updated July 6, 2021. Preliminary findings by Israeli health officials suggest about 90% of new infections were likely caused by the Delta variant, according to Ran Balicer, who leads an expert advisory panel on COVID-19 for the government. Children under 16, most of whom haven’t been vaccinated, accounted for about half of those infected, he said.

Tweaked 20^th century antibody vaccine platforms are not a long-term solution for COVID.  Strategic Vaccines’ revolutionary targeted killer T-Cell therapeutic/vaccine, FLOVID-20¹ is a single dose, room temperature stable, self-administered inhaled vaccine that causes killer T-Cells to target the static nucleocapsid protein inside the constantly mutating COVID-19 virus. FLOVID-20 can be used as a therapeutic to immediately arrest COVID in someone just testing positive.

The biggest threat of COVID-19 right now, and moving forward, is the “variants” (PMID: 33971305, PMID: 34162970). COVID-19 is a shape shifter: it can change its appearance in a way that blocks the action of antibodies so that antibody vaccines and therapies can fail to neutralize the virus. By now, everyone has heard of the “Delta” variant which is breaking through existing vaccines and infecting vaccinated people. This is a big concern to us, and reliance on only antibody vaccines and therapies should be a concern to everyone.  We are going to see more variants (and more deadly consequences) so long as we continue to rely only on antibody vaccines for protection.

Strategic Vaccines specifically developed the revolutionary FLOVID-20 to defeat SARS-CoV-2 which must include the variants. FLOVID-20 is a synthetic T-Cell vaccine using the FlowVax platform, and the only vaccine which can be used as a therapeutic to arrest the progression of COVID-19 as soon as someone tests positive.  FLOVID-20 offers the following game changing attributes:

• Inhalation self-administered (no needles), one dose, always room-temp stable (projected shelf life 2 years).
• 100% US-sourced synthetic readily available components in the US or from Allies.
• All FLOVID-20 platform components have been previously used in FDA approved vaccines and pharmaceuticals.
• FLOVID-20 is distinctly more scalable than other SARS-CoV-2 therapeutics in development (because the microsphere manufacturing process does not involve small molecule synthesis, the production of antibodies or RNA), and Strategic Vaccines is thoroughly prepared to scale up manufacturing.
• A vaccine which when used as a therapeutic will arrest COVID-19 immediately in victims as soon as they test positive.
• Targets a foundational inside part of virus, the nucleocapsid, that is not mutating like the Spike protein, to defeat the Delta variant, the Lambda, and future variants of COVID-19.
• Uniquely positioned to provide help for millions of long haulers who may be harboring infected cells. Vaccinated individuals infected with Delta may be at risk for long-hauler symptoms whether or not they get sick right away.

WHY STRATEGIC VACCINES IS POSITIONED TO RESOLVE THE WORLDWIDE PANDEMIC EXISTENTIAL CRISIS.

• Flow Pharma’s T-Cell vaccine platform developed in 2010 is supported by patents issued in the US, the European Union, Australia and Canada.  The platform was used to create Ebola and COVID-19 vaccines both successfully tested in animals at the Galveston US National Lab, resulting in two published peer reviewed articles. US Department of Defense contracts were awarded in 2018 for manufacturing and animal testing to make a T-Cell vaccine to combat Marburg, a weaponized version of Ebola, “to protect warfighters.”
• Flow Pharma formed Strategic Vaccines to use its FlowVax T-Cell vaccine platform to combat COVID-19 and future viral threats – so in the spring of 2020 was ready, to design, manufacture and test FLOVID-20.
• FLOVID-20 is made from synthetic components available in the US and from trusted allies.  It is always room temp stable, and one dose self-administered by inhalation.  Because FLOVID-20 can reliably target killer T-Cells to penetrate the outside cover of the virus and attack a static area inside to continue to defeat SARS-CoV-2 and its variants – FLOVID-20 is the revolutionary 21^st century vaccine platform to defeat a 21^st escaped engineered deadly virus.
• Critical animal studies have shown that FLOVID-20 should be safe and effective. Components used in FLOVID-20’s platform have all been used safely in other FDA approved applications. Reid Rubsamen’s animal studies article published in the peer reviewed journal “Vaccines” provides impressive results from a primate study distinctly superior to what Moderna and Pfizer had published prior to applying for approval to the FDA for Phase I testing.
• FLOVID-20 is currently being produced at Oakwood Labs, a cGMP manufacturer, in Solon, Ohio a Cleveland suburb. Sufficient doses have been manufactured for testing in humans as a therapeutic. Oakwood Labs, one of the few labs in the US specializing in manufacturing microsphere drugs like FLOVID-20, stands ready to produce substantially more doses.  Further, Strategic is prepared to scale up production on machines optimized by Lockheed Skunk Works for worldwide distribution, being installed at the Texas A&M Center for Innovative Advanced Development and Manufacturing (CIADM) site at College Station, Texas, one of the Operation Warp Speed vaccine manufacturing sites.
• Critically tested management team is in place to make certain manufacturing and testing are done to rigorous standards. Production scale up is ready to proceed to support worldwide distribution immediately with FDA approval.

Reid, in the past, has conducted Phase I clinical trials in Australia and, like many other US Pharma CEOs, recognized the financial, regulatory and operational benefits of conducting Phase I trials there.  In 2018, he set up Flow Pharma Australia PTY LTD to take full advantage of being able to conduct clinical testing in Australia, and the Strategic team is working with our well-respected colleagues, prominent Australian colleagues to finalize the information needed to make a decisions on our clinical tests going forward, so we believe we are on the landing path.

Extensive due diligence material information to support all statements herein is available in Strategic’s due dilligence data room maintained by K&L Gates, Strategic’s law firm. 

Contact:  Henry Schoenberger, Sr. Advisor to CEO/StratVac:

216-752-3244 ~ [email protected]

¹ – FLOVID-20 is under development and requires FDA approval.