Bioject’s Needle-Free Delivery Technology Used by NIH

Photo of Douglas A. McIntyre
By Douglas A. McIntyre Published
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them.

From BioHealth Investor

Bioject Medical Technologies Inc (BJCT) announced early Thursday that the National Institutues of Health (NIH) has initiated its DNA vaccine study to prevent the H5N1 flu virus using the company’s needl-free technology, Biojector 2000 (B2000).

The study aims to use the B2000 to deliver an experimental vaccine by a high pressure liquid forced through the skin, thus ensuring the comfort and safety of the test subjects and investigators.

45 total volunteers will take part in the study, 30 of whom will receive the vaccine, while the rest will receive a placebo injection.

Bioject is a very tiny company, worth slightly less than $15 on the market. It caries about $3 million in cash, and carries debts of about $900 thousand.

Revenues have been increasing steadily over the last few years, but the company’s bottom line has yet to catch up.

Shares of Bioject closed at a penny above $1 on Wednesday, with a 52-week range of $0.72 to $2.

http://www.biohealthinvestor.com/

Photo of Douglas A. McIntyre
About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

Featured Reads

Our top personal finance-related articles today. Your wallet will thank you later.

Continue Reading

Top Gaining Stocks

CBOE Vol: 1,568,143
PSKY Vol: 12,285,993
STX Vol: 7,378,346
ORCL Vol: 26,317,675
DDOG Vol: 6,247,779

Top Losing Stocks

LKQ
LKQ Vol: 4,367,433
CLX Vol: 13,260,523
SYK Vol: 4,519,455
MHK Vol: 1,859,865
AMGN Vol: 3,818,618