Australia calls for urgent review on vaccines during pregnancy

Australia's University of Queensland (UQ) researchers are calling for an urgent review of low influenza vaccination rate...

June 20, 2022 | Monday | News
Takeda's dengue vaccine proves protection through 4.5 yrs of clinical trials

Japanese pharmaceutical firm Takeda has announced that its dengue vaccine candidate, TAK-003, prevented 8...

June 15, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korea expands typhoid conjugate vaccine delivery options in public health programmes

A new study jointly conducted by South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and collaborators shows multido...

June 15, 2022 | Wednesday | News
China's SINOVAC polio vaccine receives WHO prequalification

SINOVAC Biotech, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, has received the World Health Organization (...

June 10, 2022 | Friday | News
Japan's Daiichi Sankyo to commercialise mRNA vaccine against COVID-19 in 2022

Daiichi Sankyo has announced the current progress of development of DS-5670, an mRNA vaccine, being evaluated in Japan a...

June 3, 2022 | Friday | News
Moderna to become marketing authorization holder in Japan for Spikevax COVID-19 Vaccine

Moderna and Takeda have announced to transfer the marketing authorization in Japan for Moderna’s COVID-1...

June 2, 2022 | Thursday | News
Korea, Ethiopia establish collaborating centre for joint vaccine research

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), established by the...

May 25, 2022 | Wednesday | News
New Zealand announces funding worth $40.7 M for development of novel mRNA vaccines, therapies

The University of Auckland in New Zealand has received budget funding of $40.7 million for development of novel mRNA vac...

May 24, 2022 | Tuesday | News
WHO validates China's Convidecia as 11th vaccine for COVID-19

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an emergency use listing (EUL) for Convidecia, a vaccine manufactured by ...

May 20, 2022 | Friday | News
Korea expands collaboration in vaccine development, delivery & training

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and the Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), Republic of Korea (ROK),...

May 17, 2022 | Tuesday | News
SK bioscience acquires approval for typhoid conjugate vaccine

South Korea-based SK Bioscience has secured another approval for in-house vaccine. SK Bioscience obtained an export lic...

May 17, 2022 | Tuesday | News
India-Australia collaboration to develop ‘variant-proof’ COVID-19 vaccine

Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) is providing funding of up to $19.3 million to suppo...

May 10, 2022 | Tuesday | News
China approves phase 2 trial of recombinant protein COVID-19 vaccine, ReCOV

Jiangsu Recbio Technology Co., Ltd. has recently received the clinical trial approval for its recombinant protein COVID-...

May 5, 2022 | Thursday | News
Zhifei Lvzhu Biopharmaceutical to commercialise whooping cough vaccine in China

Intravacc B.V., located at Utrecht Science Park Bilthoven in the Netherlands, has announced the signing o...

May 3, 2022 | Tuesday | News
SK bioscience reaches final stage of developing Korea´s first COVID-19 vaccine

South Korea-based SK bioscience and GSK have announced submission of a biologics license application for SKYCovione a re...

May 2, 2022 | Monday | News
Korean firm GC Biopharma explores use of lipid nanoparticle delivery system in mRNA vaccines

GC Biopharma, based in South Korea, and Canadian firm Acuitas Therapeutics, a company focused on developing lipid nanopa...

April 28, 2022 | Thursday | News
Sanofi gears to leverage Evolutive Vaccine Facility (EVF) in Asia by 2025

On 20 April 2022, Sanofi launched Evolutive Vaccine Facility (EVF) in Singapore. A first-of-its-kind, the...

April 20, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japan approves Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine for primary and booster immunisation

Takeda Pharma has received manufacturing and marketing approval from the Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (M...

April 19, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Korea promotes vaccine development & delivery, bio-manufacturing training for LMICs

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW), Republic of Korea, have agreed ...

April 8, 2022 | Friday | News
Thailand gives Emergency Use Authorisation for Novavax' COVID-19 vaccine

US-based Novavax, Inc. and Serum Institute of India have announced that the Thailand Food and Drug Administration (Thai ...

April 8, 2022 | Friday | News
CEPI partners with Japan’s NEC Group for AI-designed betacoronavirus vaccine

Norway-based CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and NEC Corporation in Japan have announced the ...

April 8, 2022 | Friday | News
Chinese firms strengthen focus on development and commercialisation of mRNA vaccines

Everest Medicines, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing transformative pharmaceutical p...

April 7, 2022 | Thursday | News
China approves clinical trial for CanSinoBIO's COVID-19 mRNA vaccine

CanSino Biologics has announced that the National Medical Products Administration of China (NMPA) granted approval for t...

April 5, 2022 | Tuesday | News
New trial in Australia could help increase supply of Japanese encephalitis vaccine

A potential new approach to administering an existing Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccine could make it more affordable a...

April 1, 2022 | Friday | News
Singapore's Prestige Biopharma inks MoU for co-development of COVID-19/Influenza vaccine

Singapore-based Prestige Biopharma and Vaxine have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collabo...

March 30, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia commences recruitment for Ph 1 trial of two indigenous COVID-19 vaccines

Melbourne researchers are calling on healthy people aged 18-70 living in Victoria to roll up their sleeves for a Phase 1...

March 28, 2022 | Monday | News
Singapore recommends second booster dose of mRNA vaccine for 80+

The Expert Committee on COVID-19 Vaccination (EC19V) in Singapore has been closely reviewing the data regarding the need...

March 25, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia invests more than $100 M for seasonal influenza vaccines

The Australian government is investing more than $100 million for seasonal influenza vaccines to protect Aus...

March 25, 2022 | Friday | News
Korea Health Industry Development Institute lays focus on vaccine research

The state of Victoria (Australia) and Korea have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on mRNA vacci...

March 23, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Experts to discuss future of vaccines at Biomanufacturing & BioLogistics Conferences

Around 400 of Asia’s renowned Biopharmaceutical manufacturing and logistics leadership personnel will gather in-pe...

March 22, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Bavarian Nordic partners with Nuance Pharma for RSV Vaccine in Asian markets

Denmark's Bavarian Nordic has entered into an exclusive license and supply agreement with Nuance Pharma, a Shanghai-base...

March 21, 2022 | Monday | News
New Zealand puts focus on designing mRNA vaccine for Staphylococcus bug

A group of scientists at the University of Auckland in New Zealand are working towards developing an mRNA-based vaccine ...

March 21, 2022 | Monday | News
“Our COVID-19 Vax Efficacy is Promising; Lyme disease & Chikungunya Shots in pipeline"

What are the unique highlights of the COVID-19 vaccine- VLA2001 under trial? While different companies have taken vario...

March 7, 2022 | Monday | Opinion
Sinovac inks agreement with Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador to build vaccine factory

Sinovac Biotech, based in China, has signed a letter of agreement with the Ecuadorian Ministry of Public Healt...

February 28, 2022 | Monday | News
WHO establishes global bio-manufacturing training hub in Korea

The World Health Organization (WHO), the Republic of Korea and the WHO Academy have announced the establishment of a glo...

February 25, 2022 | Friday | News
New vaccine trial in Australia evaluates fractional COVID-19 booster shots

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) in Norway and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute...

February 24, 2022 | Thursday | News
China approves CanSinoBIO's Convidecia as heterologous booster for COVID-19

CanSino Biologics Inc. has announced that its Recombinant Novel Coronavirus Vaccine (Adenovirus Type 5 Vector)...

February 21, 2022 | Monday | News
Singapore grants interim authorisation for Novavax COVID-19 vaccine

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has granted an interim authorisation under the Pandemic Special Access Route (PSAR) ...

February 18, 2022 | Friday | News
Korea to run training programme on vaccines and biologics development

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) has been designated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW), Republic of ...

February 17, 2022 | Thursday | News
Australia provisionally approves Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for 6-11 years old

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia has provisionally approved the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, SPIKEVA...

February 17, 2022 | Thursday | News
China expands collaboration to develop COVID-19 multi-variant vaccine

Norway-based CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, has announced that it will expand its collaborat...

February 10, 2022 | Thursday | News
Hong Kong suggests mRNA vaccinations to tackle COVID-19 variants

Researchers at AIDS Institute, Department of Microbiology, LKS Faculty of Medicine of The University of Hong Kong (HKUMe...

February 9, 2022 | Wednesday | News
China reports better antibody production with intradermal vaccination than intramuscular

Intradermal COVID-19 vaccination studies are emerging in a global effort to multiply available doses by harnessing skin ...

February 8, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Russia's Sputnik Light vaccine receives authorisation in India

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund) has announced that the Russian one-shot ...

February 7, 2022 | Monday | News
“Chinese and Russian vaccines have been disappointing relative to their overall effectiveness”

What are your views on the ongoing threat being imposed by the COVID-19 variants across the globe? How can those be best...

February 6, 2022 | Sunday | Opinion
CEPI lays focus on developing heat-stable vaccine technology

Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) has launched a new 'Call for Proposals' to...

February 4, 2022 | Friday | News
New Zealand gives provisional nod to first protein-based COVID-19 vaccine

US-based Novavax, Inc. has announced that New Zealand's Medsafe has granted provisional approval of NVX-CoV237...

February 4, 2022 | Friday | News
Korean firm EuBiologics receives approval for Ph III trial of COVID-19 vaccine

EuBiologics, a South Korean biotech company, has announced that EuCorVac-19, a COVID-19 vaccine candidate obtained appro...

February 4, 2022 | Friday | News
How IP Nitty-gritties Hinder Universal Immunisation?

The coronavirus crisis which has enraged the world has also opened up debates around IP and public health.  The gen...

February 4, 2022 | Friday | Analysis
Japan grants patent to Anixa Biosciences for ovarian cancer vaccine

US-based Anixa Biosciences, Inc. has announced that the Japanese Patent Office has issued a Decision to Grant ...

February 1, 2022 | Tuesday | News
CEPI partners with BioNet to expand variant-proof vaccine programme

CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, has announced the latest award under its $200 million pr...

February 1, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo starts trial for mRNA vaccine as booster dose in Japan

Daiichi Sankyo has initiated a trial in Japan to investigate a booster dose of DS-5670, an mRNA vaccine against COVID-19...

January 31, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia approves Pfizer booster for 16–17 year olds

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia has approved the Pfizer COVID-19 booster dose for young people a...

January 28, 2022 | Friday | News
National Vaccine Institute of Thailand strengthens partnership with International Vaccine Institute

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in South Korea and the National Vaccine Institute (NVI) of Thailand have signe...

January 24, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia grants provisional registration for Novavax COVID-19 vaccine

Novavax, Inc. has announced that Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has granted approval for p...

January 20, 2022 | Thursday | News
How countries are dealing with 'Vaccine Hesitancy'?

The COVID-19 pandemic may well be the worst public health crisis in modern history. But today, the global health system ...

January 13, 2022 | Thursday | Opinion
South Korea approves Novavax COVID-19 vaccine

US-based Novavax, Inc. and SK bioscience, Co. Limited, a vaccine business subsidiary of Korea-based SK Group, have annou...

January 13, 2022 | Thursday | News
Novavax, Serum Institute of India file for COVID-19 vaccine EUA in South Africa

Novavax, Inc. and Serum Institute of India have announced a regulatory submission to the South African Health Products R...

January 11, 2022 | Tuesday | News
GSK Singapore launches Shingrix vaccine against shingles (herpes zoster)

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Singapore has launched a new vaccine to help protect against shingles, Shingrix, in...

January 10, 2022 | Monday | News
Pfizer receives EUA of booster shot for 12-15 age group

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE have announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the Emergency U...

January 4, 2022 | Tuesday | News
India's COVAXINÒ exhibits safety in paediatric subjects in Ph II/III study

Indian firm Bharat Biotech International Limited (BBIL), a global leader in vaccine innovation and developer of vaccines...

January 3, 2022 | Monday | News
CEPI backs Korea to develop ‘variant-proof’ vaccine candidate

Norway-based CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and South Korean firm SK bioscience (SK) have an...

December 22, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan approves booster shot for Moderna COVID-19 vaccine

US-based Brand Institute has announced its successful partnership with Moderna in naming their mRNA COVID-19 vaccine: SP...

December 20, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea issues marketing authorization to Moderna COVID-19 vaccine

American firm Moderna has announced that the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety of Korea (MFDS) has issued a marketing aut...

December 16, 2021 | Thursday | News
HDT Bio initiates RNA COVID-19 vaccine trials in South Korea

HDT Bio Corp., a US-based developer of immunotherapies for oncology and infectious diseases, and Korean biotech Quratis ...

December 14, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Moderna to bring mRNA manufacturing to Australia

US-based Moderna, Inc. has announced an agreement in principle with the Australian Government to build a state-of-the-ar...

December 14, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Hong Kong studies impact of Pfizer vaccine on Omicron variant

A recent study jointly conducted by the LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) and the Faculty of...

December 13, 2021 | Monday | News
China’s CanSinoBIO to bring world's first inhalable COVID-19 vaccine

After months of collaborative development, Ireland-based Aerogen and China’s CanSinoBIO have announced a developme...

December 10, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan’s Shionogi to develop COVID-19 recombinant protein-based vaccine

Japan-based Shionogi & Co. has recently announced the results from the Japanese Phase 1/2 clinical trial of S-268019...

December 8, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea launches new prestigious award for vaccine industry

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) is joining hands with SK bioscience, a leading biopharmaceutical company in So...

December 7, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Victoria makes Australia’s first mRNA vaccine candidate

Victorian scientists and manufacturers have created Australia’s first mRNA COVID-19 vaccine candidate – Aust...

December 6, 2021 | Monday | News
Taiwan explores mix-and-match booster trial of COVID-19 vaccines

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and Taiwan-based Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corp. (MVC) will c...

December 6, 2021 | Monday | News
GenScript, BioComo accelerate novel intranasal SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development in Japan

GenScript Biotech Corporation, a leading global biotechnology company, and BioComo Incorporation, a drug discovery ventu...

December 2, 2021 | Thursday | News
Prestige BioPharma opens global-scale vaccine centre in South Korea

Prestige BioPharma (PBP), a Singapore-based biopharmaceutical with operations in USA and South Korea, has announced the ...

December 1, 2021 | Wednesday | News
China bets high on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines

GenScript ProBio, Suzhou Abogen Biosciences Technology Co. and Walvax Biotechnology Co. have announced a collaboration o...

November 30, 2021 | Tuesday | News
India's Zydus Cadila transfers plasmid DNA vaccine technology to Korea

Enzychem Lifesciences and Cadila Healthcare, a part of the Zydus Group in India, have entered a Manufacturing Licen...

November 26, 2021 | Friday | News
Pakistan receives funding worth $11.7 M for mix-and-match trial of COVID-19 vaccines

Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the Aga Khan University (AKU) have announced a n...

November 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
NZ invests $10 M in vaccine development for rheumatic diseases

New Zealand (NZ) based University of Auckland’s medical faculty will lead a multi-million dollar government-funded...

November 24, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia offers new analysis to predict how well vaccines will work against COVID-19 strains

The researchers from the Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases at the University of Sydney, UNSW Sydney&rsq...

November 23, 2021 | Tuesday | News
China's Clover Biopharma receives additional funding for booster dose evaluation

China-based Clover Biopharmaceuticals and Norway-based CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovat...

November 19, 2021 | Friday | News
China's COVID-19 vaccine CoronaVac to be safe for children and adolescents

China-based SINOVAC Biotech has announced that results from blind data analysis of a multi-centre, case-driven, ran...

November 18, 2021 | Thursday | News
mRNA Victoria, Ginkgo Bioworks to grow bioeconomy & biosecurity capabilities in Australia

mRNA Victoria, the agency of the Australian State of Victoria Government charged with building the State's mRNA man...

November 18, 2021 | Thursday | News
Thailand approves 3.6 B Baht to develop local COVID-19 vaccines

The government has approved a fund of 3,625 million baht for two Thai vaccine projects against COVID-19, ChulaCov19 mRNA...

November 11, 2021 | Thursday | News
Q2 Solutions Beijing joins CEPI's global network of COVID-19 vaccine testing labs

Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and Q2 Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of ...

November 3, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Novavax, Serum Institute of India get EUA for COVID-19 vaccine in Indonesia

US-based Novavax, Inc. and Serum Institute of India have announced that the National Agency of Drug and Food Contro...

November 1, 2021 | Monday | News
Vaccine Immunology- Potentially the Biggest Game Changer in Asian Healthcare

There is a common pearl of Indian wisdom that encourages parents to let their children play outside in the sun, rain, ga...

November 1, 2021 | Monday | Opinion
WHO COVID-19 Solidarity Trial picks Taiwan-based Medigen's vaccine

Taiwan's Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corp (MVC) vaccine candidate, MVC-COV1901, has been recommended by an indep...

October 27, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo to commercialize mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in Japan within 2022

Daiichi Sankyo has announced the progress of development of DS-5670, an mRNA vaccine in Japan, being evaluated against t...

October 26, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia makes breakthrough in vaccine development to prevent hookworm infection

There’s been a significant breakthrough in the development of a vaccine to prevent hookworm infection, a parasite ...

October 26, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore grants interim authorisation for Sinovac-CoronaVac vaccine

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in Singapore has granted an interim authorisation under the Pandemic Special Access ...

October 25, 2021 | Monday | News
Addressing Consumer Questions About COVID Booster Shots

1. Who Is Eligible for a COVID Booster Shot?   As of now, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CD...

October 25, 2021 | Monday | Opinion
Taiwan's Medigen explores EUA for COVID-19 vaccine in different countries

Taiwan-based Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corporation has recently stated that MVC-COV1901, a recombinant protein vacc...

October 18, 2021 | Monday | News
One-shot Sputnik Light vaccine demonstrates 70% efficacy against Delta variant

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund) and Gamaleya National Research Cent...

October 14, 2021 | Thursday | News
CEPI explores impact of small booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines

Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, or CEPI, has launched a new call for proposals to fund cli...

October 12, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Moderna to build state-of-the-art mRNA vaccine facility in Africa

American firm Moderna, Inc. will build a state-of-the-art mRNA facility in Africa with the goal of producing u...

October 8, 2021 | Friday | News
WHO recommends groundbreaking malaria vaccine for children

The World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending widespread use of the RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine (Mosquirix)...

October 7, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore to strengthen biopharma sector with new vaccine facility

To boost Singapore’s biopharmaceutical sector, Australia-based Lendlease is commencing construction of a large-sca...

October 7, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea inks MoU with US for collaborative vaccine research

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in South Korea, the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Develop...

September 30, 2021 | Thursday | News
China focuses on mRNA vaccine R&D and industrialisation

Jiangsu Recbio Technology and Shenzhen Rhegen Biotechnology have recently signed a joint venture agreement to establish ...

September 30, 2021 | Thursday | News
Serum Institute, Novavax submit COVID-19 vaccine emergency use listing to WHO

Indian vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India (SII) and its US-based partner Novavax, have announced a regulatory...

September 24, 2021 | Friday | News

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