Moderna inks new supply agreement with Taiwan for variant booster vaccine

US-based Moderna, Inc., a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, has announced...

July 23, 2021 | Friday | News
China's ZerunBio vaccine to cross protect against some new variants of SARS-CoV-2

Shanghai Zerun Biotechnology (ZerunBio) and its parent company Walvax Biotechnology have partnered with Norway-based CEP...

July 22, 2021 | Thursday | News
CEPI provides up to $12.7M to expand COVID-19 vaccines access in Africa

Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in Sou...

July 22, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia evaluates heat-tolerant COVID-19 vaccine formulations

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), based in Australia, played an important role ...

July 21, 2021 | Wednesday | News
China supports global polio endgame strategy with new vaccine

Sinovac Biotech, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, has received a drug registration approval fr...

July 19, 2021 | Monday | News
Taiwan approves manufacturing of Medigen's COVID-19 vaccine

The Food and Drug Administration of the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Taiwan has approved the manufacturing of Medig...

July 19, 2021 | Monday | News
Aptamer Group partners with five global pharma companies for vaccine production

Aptamer Group, the UK-based developer of Optimer therapeutics and diagnostics, has secured a contract with a top-five gl...

July 14, 2021 | Wednesday | News
China's Sinovac inks deal to supply COVID-19 vaccine to COVAX

SINOVAC Biotech, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, announced that it has signed an advance purc...

July 12, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea provides new insights for effective vaccine strategies against COVID-19

An immunology research team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has found that m...

July 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea, Ghana bring first-of-its-kind collaborating centre for vaccine R&D

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUS...

July 6, 2021 | Tuesday | News
DHL Express delivers Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to Malaysia

DHL Express has delivered the US government's donation of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The arrival of around 1,000,000 d...

July 5, 2021 | Monday | News
Sanofi invests €400 M in first-of-its kind vaccines mRNA Center of Excellence

Sanofi will invest approximately €400 million annually in a first-of-its kind vaccines mRNA Center of Excellence. ...

June 29, 2021 | Tuesday | News
First Australian COVID-19 DNA vaccine trial starts

Australian researchers are commencing the first Phase 1 human trial of a COVID-19 gene-based DNA vaccine, delivered via ...

June 25, 2021 | Friday | News
Adjuvant-free Avian influenza vaccines in the works at Korea

Professor Inhwan Hwang and Ph.D. candidate Shi-Jian Song of the Department of Life Science at the Pohang University of S...

June 24, 2021 | Thursday | News
South Africa to establish first COVID mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub

The World Health Organization (WHO) and its COVAX partners are working with a South African consortium compris...

June 25, 2021 | Friday | News
Ph III trial of Biokangtai COVID-19 vaccine starts in Malaysia

Phase III clinical fieldwork of the Inactivated COVID-19 Vaccine (Vero cells) independently developed and manufactured b...

June 23, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Taiwanese firm UBI-Asia inks COVID-19 vaccine deal with Paraguay

Vaxxinity, a US-based company pioneering the development of a new class of immunotherapeutic vaccines, in close collabor...

June 22, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia's Monash University receives $5M grant for COVID-19 mRNA vaccine

Australia's Monash University has received $5 million from the Victorian Government to manufacture the first Australian ...

June 22, 2021 | Tuesday | News
COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca effective against Delta (‘Indian') variant

New data from Public Health England (PHE) demonstrated COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca offers high levels of prot...

June 15, 2021 | Tuesday | News
G7 summit held in the UK pledges 870 M COVID-19 vaccine doses

In a landmark agreement at G7 summit, held in Cornwall, UK, global leaders have pledged to share COVID-19 vaccine doses ...

June 14, 2021 | Monday | News
Tabuk Pharma to commercialize Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine in Saudi Arabia

Moderna, Inc. and Tabuk Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Company (a fully owned subsidiary of Astra Industrial Group), ...

June 14, 2021 | Monday | News
US to donate 500 M Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses to LMIC countries

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE announced plans to provide the U.S. government at a not-for-profit price 500 million do...

June 10, 2021 | Thursday | News
U.S. FDA approves Pfizer's Pneumococcal 20-valent Conjugate Vaccine

Pfizer Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved PREVNAR 20™ (Pneumococcal...

June 9, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Researchers pioneer Australia-first research to inform vaccine policy

A leading group of New South Wales (NSW) experts, including from the University of Sydney, have received funding from th...

June 9, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia facilitates communication about approved COVID-19 vaccines

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia has implemented arrangements to facilitate the communication of ...

June 8, 2021 | Tuesday | News