Vietnam signs MoU with India for COVID-19 vaccine

Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India ha...

September 24, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore receives extra 101,000 doses of SINOVAC COVID-19 vaccines (CoronaVac®)

SINOVAC Biotech Ltd. is supplying 101,000 doses of the inactivated COVID-19 vaccine (CoronaVac®), to Singapore. ...

September 15, 2021 | Wednesday | News
UK launches antibody surveillance program to analyze COVID-19 infection/vaccination

UK Health Security Agency to launch UK-wide antibody surveillance programme for the general public for the first time H...

September 14, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Everest Medicines to advance mRNA vaccines & therapies in Asia emerging markets

China-based startup Everest Medicines has inked two separate definitive agreements with Canadian biotech firm Provi...

September 14, 2021 | Tuesday | News
China's Clover Biopharma to launch protein-based COVID-19 vaccine by 2021-end

China-based Clover Biopharmaceuticals has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Zhejiang Clover Biopharmaceut...

September 13, 2021 | Monday | News
World's first Nano cellular broad-spectrum COVID-19 vaccine developing in Australia

EnGeneIC Limited, an Australian, Sydney-based biotechnology company, has developed a globally unique nano cellular techn...

September 8, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan buys 150 M doses of Novavax COVID-19 vaccine

Takeda Pharmaceutical has announced that the Government of Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MH...

September 8, 2021 | Wednesday | News
The EU secures 200 million COVID-19 vaccine doses by AstraZeneca

The EU and AstraZeneca have reached an agreement that will secure the delivery of the remaining COVID-19 vaccine doses t...

September 7, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Vax cocktail endgame against COVID-19

Vaccine mixing, which began unintentionally, is now gaining traction. There is a significant interest in mixing two diff...

September 6, 2021 | Monday | Opinion
Singapore recommends additional dose of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine for seniors, immunocompromised

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

September 6, 2021 | Monday | News
India approves Ph III trials of Biological E's COVID-19 vaccine candidate

Indian firm Biological E. has received Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) approval for conducting Phase III Compar...

September 3, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea's CancerRop becomes largest shareholder of cancer vaccine firm Oxford Vacmedix

South Korea-based CancerRop has announced a jump start in the global vaccine hub for COVID-19 mRNA (messenger ribonuclei...

August 31, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Bharat Biotech announces global Chikungunya vaccine Ph II/III trial in Costa Rica

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) has announced that the first participant has received Indian fir...

August 25, 2021 | Wednesday | News
India's first mRNA-based vaccine moves into Phase II/III trial

Indian firm Gennova Biopharmaceuticals working on the nation's first mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine, submitted the interim ...

August 24, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine receives full approval from USFDA

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-...

August 24, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Medigen rolls-out adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine in Taiwan

Taiwan-based Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corporation (MVC) and Dynavax Technologies Corporation, in th...

August 23, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia reports above 95% childhood immunization rates in the current year

Australia continues to be an immunization nation as parents protect their children from disease at record rates. 2021 se...

August 23, 2021 | Monday | News
World’s first Plasmid DNA vaccine for COVID-19 receives EUA in India

Indian pharma firm Zydus Cadila has received the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the Drug Controller General of I...

August 20, 2021 | Friday | News
New study at Singapore could underpin a 'dream' vaccine for future outbreaks

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) in Singapore have found that ...

August 19, 2021 | Thursday | News
FedEx delivers COVID-19 vaccines to South Korea

FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. and one of the world’s largest express transportation companies, delive...

August 17, 2021 | Tuesday | News
HDT Bio, Quratis to co-develop innovative COVID-19 vaccine in Asia

US-based HDT Bio Corp has announced an agreement with Korean biotech Quratis Inc. to co-develop HDT’s revolutionar...

August 17, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Moderna to set-up mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in Canada

Moderna, Inc., a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, on Aug 10, 2021 announ...

August 11, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea's SK bioscience plans Ph III COVID-19 vaccine trial in multiple countries

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) is partnering with SK bioscience of South Korea to conduct Phase III clinical ...

August 11, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia grants provisional registration for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine

US-based Moderna, Inc. has announced that the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has granted provisional regist...

August 10, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Novavax, Serum Institute seek nanoparticle COVID-19 vaccine approval in India, Indonesia, Philippines

US-based Novavax, Inc. with its partner, Serum Institute of India (SII), has announced that the companies have filed reg...

August 6, 2021 | Friday | News
Moderna gets fast-track status for mRNA vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus

US-based Moderna, Inc. has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation...

August 4, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Groundbreaking collaboration to bring mRNA vaccine technology to Vietnam

US-based startup Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc. has announced an agreement with Vinbiocare Biotechnology Joint Stoc...

August 3, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Medigen ropes in new CRO partner for COVID-19 vaccine development in Taiwan

QPS, a global contract research organization (CRO) that focuses on bioanalytical products and clinical trials, has partn...

August 2, 2021 | Monday | News
Japan's Takeda launches new biopharma venture for norovirus vaccine candidate

Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda and US-based Frazier Healthcare Partners have announced a collaboration to l...

July 30, 2021 | Friday | News
BioNTech to develop first mRNA-based prophylactic malaria vaccine

German biotech firm BioNTech SE has announced the start of its malaria project which aims at the developm...

July 28, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to be available in Thailand from Q4, 2021

ZP Therapeutics, a division of Zuellig Pharma, has announced an official agreement with the Government Pharmaceutical Or...

July 27, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Longer-interval of Pfizer vaccine dose boosts antibody levels: Study

Universities of Sheffield, Oxford, Liverpool, Newcastle, and Birmingham, with support from the UK Coronavirus Immunology...

July 23, 2021 | Friday | News
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
Japan hosts Gavi COVAX AMC summit virtual event securing $2.4 B

World leaders joined forces on 2 June at the “One World Protected” - Gavi COVAX Advance Market Commitme...

June 7, 2021 | Monday | News
Gavi welcomes U.S. strategy for Global Vaccine Sharing

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, welcomes the announcement by the United States Government of its strategy for glob...

June 7, 2021 | Monday | News
Bahrain to establish production of Sputnik V vaccine

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund), Bahrain’s Mumtalakat Holding Comp...

June 4, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea's IVI to develop adaptive Ph 1b/2a schistosomiasis vaccine trial

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in South Korea has announced that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has ...

June 3, 2021 | Thursday | News
Biological E partners with Canadian firm to manufacture mRNA vaccines in India

Canadian firm Providence Therapeutics Holdings Inc. and India's Biological E have announced the execution of a term shee...

June 2, 2021 | Wednesday | News
WHO approves China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has validated the Sinovac-CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, giving ...

June 2, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia connects metabolic hormone leptin with vaccine response

Reduced levels of a metabolic hormone known as leptin, largely produced by fat tissue, is linked to poor vaccine antibod...

May 28, 2021 | Friday | News
CEPI injects additional funding of $173.4 M into Korean firm SK bioscience's vaccine project

CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and SK bioscience have announced an expanded partnership to d...

May 28, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore approves new storage condition for Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in Singapore has approved the new storage condition for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19...

May 26, 2021 | Wednesday | News
CanSino receives GMP certificate for Convidecia™, COVID-19 vaccine

CanSino Biologics Inc has announced that its recombinant novel coronavirus vaccine, (Adenovirus Type 5 Vector) (‘A...

May 25, 2021 | Tuesday | News
South Korea explores expansion of COVID-19 vaccine activities

Novavax, Inc., a US-based biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, has...

May 25, 2021 | Tuesday | News
RDIF, Panacea Biotec launch production of Sputnik V in India

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund) and Panacea Biotec, one of the leading v...

May 24, 2021 | Monday | News
Research confirms trusted sources key to vaccination program success

Last month was World Immunization Week and never has it been a more pertinent milestone. It has been 13 months since the...

May 24, 2021 | Monday | Opinion
Singapore extends use of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to adolescents

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) at Singapore has extended the authorisation of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for ...

May 19, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia to soon roll-out single-dose COVID-19 vaccine

A single-dose vaccine that targets new COVID-19 variants has been awarded funding to fast-track testing in human trials....

May 17, 2021 | Monday | News
Moderna to supply 25 M vaccine doses to Australia

Moderna, Inc., has announced a new supply agreement with the government of Australia for 25 million doses. Thi...

May 14, 2021 | Friday | News
Fosun, BioNTech invest $200 M to manufacture COVID-19 vaccine in China

Shanghai Fosun Pharma has signed a Joint Venture with BioNTech to manufacture mRNA vaccine in China. The JV will ha...

May 12, 2021 | Wednesday | News
EU inks the third contract with BioNTech/Pfizer securing 1.8 billion doses

The European Commission has approved a contract for 1.8 billion doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine. The contract cove...

May 11, 2021 | Tuesday | News
US approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for adolescents

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer-BioNTech C...

May 11, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia's CSIRO suggests nasal delivery of Oxford-AZ vaccine to improve efficacy

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency, has...

May 11, 2021 | Tuesday | News
China focuses on next-generation intranasal COVID-19 vaccines

COVID-19 infections continue to rise with several countries facing second-and third-wave infections with the newly evolv...

May 10, 2021 | Monday | News
WHO lists China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has listed the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, giving the green light ...

May 10, 2021 | Monday | News
Oxford’s malaria vaccine shows significant 75% efficacy in early trial

A malaria vaccine created by scientists at the University of Oxford’s Jenner Institute has been found to be 77% ef...

May 4, 2021 | Tuesday | News
WHO issues emergency use listing to Moderna COVID-19 vaccine

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

May 1, 2021 | Saturday | News
UK to host global fund-raising summit with CEPI to accelerate vaccine development

Plans to speed up vaccine development to prevent future pandemics and save lives will be boosted by a UK-hosted summit t...

May 3, 2021 | Monday | News
Thailand accelerates production of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

Thailand's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Siam Bioscience as a manufacturing facility for COV...

April 30, 2021 | Friday | News
Zuellig Pharma partners with Moderna to supply COVID-19 vaccine in Asia

Zuellig Pharma, a Singapore based healthcare services provider in Asia, and Moderna, Inc., a US based biotechnology...

April 29, 2021 | Thursday | News
RNAimmune accelerates R&D into mRNA vaccine, drug discovery

RNAimmune, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company specializing in discovery and development of mRNA-based therapeutics and va...

April 23, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia announces $50 M investment in mRNA vaccine manufacturing

The Victorian Government’s $50 million investment in mRNA vaccine manufacturing is welcome recognition of the worl...

April 21, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Moderna announces new supply agreement with Israel for 2022

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

April 22, 2021 | Thursday | News
Prestige Biopharma to open vaccine production centre in South Korea

Prestige Biopharma Limited (PBP), based in Singapore, has announced that the company will be introducing a vaccine devel...

April 20, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Sputnik V vaccine receives authorization in India

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund) announces that Drug Controller General o...

April 13, 2021 | Tuesday | News
GSK to provide fill and finish capacity for Novavax’ COVID-19 vaccine

  Novavax Inc, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the UK Government Vaccines Taskforce have reached an agreement i...

April 12, 2021 | Monday | News
Sanofi invests in Asia's first digitally-enabled vaccine production center in Singapore

Sanofi has announced a €400 million investment over five years to create a unique vaccine production center in Sing...

April 12, 2021 | Monday | News
Celonic and CureVac to manufacture 100 Million doses of CVnCoV

Germany based CureVac N.V., a biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of transformative medicines based on mess...

April 12, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia approves wider storage conditions for Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia has recently approved wider storage and transportation condition...

April 12, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea pushes R&D of infectious disease therapeutics and vaccines

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and the Institut Pasteur Korea (IPK) have signed a memorandum of understanding...

April 12, 2021 | Monday | News
CanSinoBIO's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine gets approval in Chile

China based CanSino Biologics Inc. has announced that the Instituto de Salud Pública de ...

April 9, 2021 | Friday | News
South Korea approves J&J COVID-19 vaccine

South Korea’s Food and Drug Safety Ministry has granted final approval for the use of Johnson & Johnson’...

April 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Germany tests mutation-specific vaccine against malignant brain tumors

Tumor vaccines can help the body fight cancer. Mutations in the tumor genome often lead to protein changes that are typi...

April 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
HOPE Consortium kick starts World Immunisation & Logistics Summit in Dubai

The HOPE Consortium’s World Immunisation & Logistics Summit opened on March 30, 2021 by H.H. Sheikh Abdul...

March 30, 2021 | Tuesday | News
EU evaluates Takeda's dengue vaccine candidate

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted the compa...

March 26, 2021 | Friday | News
AZD1222 US Phase III primary analysis confirms safety and efficacy

Positive high-level results from the primary analysis of the Phase III trial of AZD1222 in the US have confirmed vaccine...

March 25, 2021 | Thursday | News

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