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PR NEWSWIRE – Dalan Animal Health Reports Promising Data with Experimental Vaccine Showing 83% Effectiveness Against Deformed Wing Virus-B in Honeybees

BIO – The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) today announced the winners of the organization’s 2024 Leadership in Agri-Biotechnology Awards — honoring Dr. Annette Kleiser, CEO of Dalan Animal Health, as the recipient of the George Washington Carver Award. The George Washington Carver Award, sponsored by the Iowa Biotechnology Association, recognizes significant contributions by individuals in […]

Mann Lake Youtube In this informative discussion between Andrew from Mann Lake and Everett Hendrixon, the North American sales manager for Dalan Animal Health, various aspects of beekeeping and the importance of vaccination for bees are explored. Learn more about Everett’s background, from his beginnings in agriculture to his perspective on why honeybee vaccination is […]

Sustainable Brands Dalan Animal Health introduces the inaugural USDA conditionally licensed vaccine for honeybees, providing a prophylactic solution to safeguard the global honeybee population from lethal infectious diseases.

NPR’s The Pulse Dalan is featured on NPR’s The Pulse in honor of Earth Day, alongside beekeeper and Director of Extract and Box LLC, Tim Ferris. You can tune in starting at 51:00 to learn more about the contagious honeybee bacterial disease, American Foulbrood, from Tim and Kim Skyrm, Chief Apiary Inspector for Massachusetts. Dalan’s […]

The New York Times Dalan Animal Health’s vaccine for American foulbrood, an aggressive bacterial disease, is the first for any insect in the United States.

TIME Best Inventions 2023 List Dalan Animal Health, Inc. (“Dalan”), the pioneering biotech company specializing in insect health, has been named to TIME’s Best Inventions of 2023 in recognition of the world’s first honeybee vaccine. This vaccine was recognized as an ‘extraordinary innovation’ within sustainability category.

PR Newswire ATHENS, GA. (November 28, 2023) – Dalan Animal Health, Inc. (“Dalan”), the biotech company specializing in insect health, today announced that it has been included in the 2023 Fast Company Next Big Thing in Tech list in recognition of its innovative animal health solution.

Cision Dalan Animal Health, Inc. (“Dalan”), the pioneering biotech company specializing in insect health, today announced it has received market authorization from the Canadian Center for Veterinary Biologics (CCVB) under the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) for its revolutionary honeybee vaccine for American Foulbrood (AFB), a devastating honeybee brood disease caused by the bacterium Paenibacillus […]

I am BIO Podcast Bees are critical to our food supply. Without domesticated honeybees and other pollinators, we wouldn’t have coffee beans for our morning cup, veggies in our salad, or even agave to make tequila for our margaritas. In this episode, we discuss the threats to bees and the role biotech can play in […]

Business Wire Dalan Animal Health has secured $4.5 million in Series Seed 3 funding, led by Prime Movers Lab with participation from At One Ventures, bringing our total funding to $10 million.

Business Wire ATHENS, GA. May 23, 2023 — Dalan Animal Health, Inc. (“Dalan”), the biotech company pioneering insect health with the world’s first honey bee vaccine, is proud to announce its first product shipment to a commercial beekeeper.

CBS News Bee colonies are collapsing all over the world, threatening large parts of our food supply. But there’s good news in the fight to slow their decline: the U.S. government has approved the use of the world’s first vaccine for honeybees.

NBC News Now Honeybees are among the world’s most important pollinators, however like humans, they are also susceptible to diseases. NBC’s Jake Ward reports on a new USDA approval for the first honeybee vaccine that has beekeepers extremely hopeful.

BBC News The US has approved use of the world’s first vaccine for honey bees.

NPR The Department of Agriculture has conditionally approved a new vaccine meant to protect honeybees from a bacterial disease that can affect the bee’s larvae.

The Guardian Hopes of a new weapon against diseases that routinely ravage colonies that are relied upon for food pollination.

CNN The United States Department of Agriculture has approved the first-ever vaccine for honeybees to prevent American foulbrood disease, a fatal bacterial disease that can destroy honeybee colonies, officials say.

Business Wire ATHENS, GA. January 4, 2023 — Dalan Animal Health, Inc. (“Dalan”), a biotech company pioneering insect health, announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) granted a conditional license for vaccination of honeybees against American Foulbrood disease caused by Paenibacillus larvae.

Business Wire ATHENS, GA. October 18, 2022 — Dalan Animal Health, Inc., a biotech company focused on insect health, today announced the results of the first-ever successful randomized placebo-controlled double-blinded trial study to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of the world’s first vaccine for honeybees.

Business Wire ATHENS, GA. — Dalan Animal Health, Inc., a biotech company pioneering insect health and immunology, today announced the close of a $3.55 million seed financing round led by At One Ventures and Veterinary Angel Network for Entrepreneurs (VANE). This is the second seed round of funding and the first including institutional investors, bringing […]

PR Newswire Athens, GA. Wednesday, June 1, 2022 — Dalan Animal Health, Inc., a biotech company focused on insect health, announced today that it will relocate its headquarters to Athens, Georgia. The company is anticipated to create 20 new jobs over the next five years.

The Economist An old saw has it that there is nothing new under the sun. But it may still come as a surprise that human beings are not alone in having invented vaccination. Work just published in the Journal of Experimental Biology by Gyan Harwood of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, confirms that honeybees got […]

Bee Culture MARCH 2022 — “As a veterinarian, I have administered thousands of various vaccines to a variety of animals over the years. As in humans, these vaccines are typically developed over decades of research and trials and are administered …”

Bee Culture APRIL 2022 — “If you missed last month’s part one of this series, I am about to give you some homework! Please go back and read part 1 in the previous BC issue, it will really help with your understanding of this article. Much of what I discussed previously applies to vertebrates, and […]

PR Newswire LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4, 2021 — Dalan Animal Health, a pioneer in insect vaccination, announced today the issuance of a Notice of Allowance for U.S. Patent Application 15/747,252 “Edible Vaccination Against Microbial Pathogens.” The original technology was developed at the University of Helsinki, Finland, by Dr. Dalial Freitak and Dr. Heli Salmela.

BIO IMPACT Listen to Dalan’s 8-minute investor pitch for their winning presentation at the 2020 BIO IMPACT Startup Stadium.

The New York Times At a time when some beekeepers are struggling to keep their colonies alive and pollinating, the prospect of a vaccine for honeybees has offered a flicker of hope…

NPR Bees may soon get an ally in their fight against bacterial disease — one of the most serious threats the pollinators face — in the form of an edible vaccine…

KCRW Bees have been dying off in masses, and no one knows why. Bees are crucial to the food chain. Now there’s hope: a bee vaccine…