CEPI's collaborative task force to assess COVID-19 vaccines on emerging viral strains

To rapidly monitor the emergence of new COVID-19 viral strains and evaluate their impact on vaccine candidates in develo...

November 23, 2020 | Monday | News
Pfizer, BioNTech demonstrate 95% efficacy of COVID-19 vaccine

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech have announced that, after conducting the final efficacy analysis in their ongoing Ph...

November 23, 2020 | Monday | News
Cytiva supports Clover Biopharma to scale up output of COVID-19 vaccine candidate

US-based Cytiva, a global life sciences leader, is supporting Shanghai-based Clover Biopharmaceuticals, a global clinica...

November 17, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia unveils plans for new flu vaccine facility

The Australian government has announced that the largest flu vaccine manufacturing plant in the southern hemisphere will...

November 16, 2020 | Monday | News
South Korea to host production of 150M Sputnik V doses for global distribution

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund), and GL Rapha, one of the leading South ...

November 13, 2020 | Friday | News
Arcturus Therapeutics receives $220M from Singapore for COVID-19 vaccine development

Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc., based in the US, has announced positive interim clinical study results from its ong...

November 12, 2020 | Thursday | News
COVID-19 vaccine candidate by Pfizer, BioNTech shows more than 90% effectivity

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE have announced their mRNA-based vaccine candidate, BNT162b2, against SARS-CoV...

November 10, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia secures further 50M doses of COVID-19 vaccine

Two more COVID-19 vaccines have been secured for the Australian population under new agreements, bringing the Australian...

November 5, 2020 | Thursday | News
Australia reports highest childhood vaccination rates in 2020

On 1 Nov 2020, Australia reported the highest recorded childhood vaccination, with new figures showing four quarters of ...

November 2, 2020 | Monday | News
Takeda expands COVID-19 vaccine supply in Japan

Takeda Pharmaceutical has announced that it will import and distribute 50 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19...

October 30, 2020 | Friday | News
Moderna announces COVID-19 vaccine supply agreement with Qatar

Moderna Inc. has announced a supply agreement with the Ministry of Public Health of Qatar for mRNA-1273, Moder...

October 29, 2020 | Thursday | News
Russia applies to WHO for vaccine prequalification of Sputnik V

The Russian Direct Investment Fund, (RDIF, Russia's sovereign wealth fund), has submitted applications to...

October 28, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Japan pledges $130M to support global access to COVID-19 vaccines

The global effort to ensure equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines received a boost with the announcement of a maj...

October 21, 2020 | Wednesday | News
BioNTech, Pfizer to initiate Ph 1/2 trial of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine candidate in Japan

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE on 21 Oct 2020 announced the start of a Phase 1/2 study in Japan for their BN...

October 21, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Thailand triggers production of COVID-19 vaccine for 2021

Thailand Ministry of Public Health, Siam Bioscience, SCG and British-Swedish biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has s...

October 19, 2020 | Monday | News
Taiwan inks deal with BioNTech for COVID-19 vaccine delivery

Taiwan based TTY Biopharm Company, has announced that it has received authorization for the delivery of coronavirus vacc...

October 13, 2020 | Tuesday | News
SII to produce 200 million COVID-19 vaccines doses for India and LMICs in 2021

A further collaboration among the Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by volu...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | News
EU secures 400 million doses of Janssen’s COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

  Johnson & Johnson on 8 Oct 2020 announced that the European Commission (EC), acting on behalf of the Europea...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | News
CEPI establishes global centralized COVID-19 vaccine candidates assessment network

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) in Norway has announced partnerships with five clinical sampl...

October 8, 2020 | Thursday | News
Australia invests $2.3 B on native COVID-19 vaccine

The Australian Government is investing a total of $2.3 billion to support home-grown researchers and manufacturers to de...

October 8, 2020 | Thursday | News
RDIF, Trinity Pharma to supply 25M doses of Sputnik V to Nepal

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

September 29, 2020 | Tuesday | News
COVAXX initiates Ph 1 trial of COVID-19 vaccine in Taiwan

COVAXX, a subsidiary of United Biomedical Inc (UBI) headquartered in the US, has announced the first healthy a...

September 29, 2020 | Tuesday | News
J&J initiates global Ph 3 trial of COVID-19 vaccine candidate

Johnson & Johnson has announced the launch of its large-scale, pivotal, multi-country Phase 3 trial (ENSEMBLE) for i...

September 24, 2020 | Thursday | News
Australia now eligible to purchase COVID-19 vaccine doses through COVAX

The Australian Government has joined the COVAX facility, enabling the purchase of COVID-19 vaccine doses as they become ...

September 23, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore focuses on COVID-19 vaccine technology for elders

Researchers from Monash University in Australia and the National University of Singapore have adapted new cancer and pan...

September 22, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia invests $6M in new COVID-19 vaccine projects

Australia will invest almost $6 million in additional funding from the Medical Research Future Fund’s (MRFF) Coron...

September 21, 2020 | Monday | News
Novavax & Serum Institute of India to manufacture COVID-19 Vaccine

Novavax, Inc., a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases,&n...

September 16, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan & US to develop coronavirus, influenza combo patch vaccine

Vaxess Technologies, an innovative biotechnology company in the US developing the MIMIX smart release patch, has formed ...

September 15, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Oxford vaccine AZD1222 resumes clinical trial

Oxford university and AstraZeneca are to resume the international clinical trial of their proposed coronavirus vaccine c...

September 14, 2020 | Monday | News
Inovio partners with Thermo Fisher to manufacture COVID-19 vaccine

INOVIO, a biotechnology company focused on bringing to market precisely designed DNA medicines to treat and protect peop...

September 10, 2020 | Thursday | News
Intravacc receives US NIAID contract to develop enterovirus D68 vaccine

Intravacc, a global leader in translational research and development of viral and bacterial vaccines in the Netherlands,...

September 8, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia inks $1.7B worth agreement for COVID-19 vaccine

A free COVID-19 vaccine will be available progressively throughout 2021 in Australia, if promising trials prove successf...

September 8, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia deals with AstraZeneca for AZD1222 COVID-19 investigational vaccine

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, AZD1222, as a potential candidate for an emergency use authorization (EU...

September 7, 2020 | Monday | News
Korean CRO to conduct Ph III trial of Sinovac's Covid-19 vaccine candidate in Bangladesh

Korea's LSK Global PS, a leading CRO to run Sinovac Phase III COVID-19 vaccine trial in Bangladesh. The company would m...

September 4, 2020 | Friday | News
Beximco inks COVID-19 vaccine pact with Serum Institute of India

Beximco Pharmaceuticals Limited (BPL) in Bangladesh and the Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd (SII), have announced an a...

August 31, 2020 | Monday | News
India, Russia liaise to manufacture Sputnik V vaccine in India

On 25 August 2020, Indian Health Ministery announced that a dialogue has been exchanged between India and Russia on...

August 26, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Sinovac inks new agreements for COVID-19 vaccine cooperation

Sinovac Biotech Ltd., a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, has announced it has signed two agreeme...

August 26, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan approves first COVID-19 vaccine for human trials

For the first time ever, Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given conditional approval for the experimental...

August 21, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia to supply Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for free

Australia has inked an agreement with British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to supply Australians with the ...

August 19, 2020 | Wednesday | News
FUJIFILM and Novavax to manufacture COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

Japan's FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, world-leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for ...

August 18, 2020 | Tuesday | News
CanSinoBIO lists successfully on STAR Market as Initial dual listing vaccine company

China's CanSino Biologics Inc. announced on 13 August 2020 that it has successfully listed on the Sci-Tech Innovati...

August 14, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia injects $1.87M to accelerate clinical trials for Q Fever vaccine

Australia is progressing with its new and improved Q Fever vaccine at pre-clinical trials following a $1.87 million inje...

August 11, 2020 | Tuesday | News
UAE’S COVID-19 inactivated vaccine trials reach major milestone

The world’s first Phase III trials of an inactivated vaccine for COVID-19 being held in the United Arab Emirates h...

August 11, 2020 | Tuesday | News
AstraZeneca inks COVID-19 vaccine deal with China's BioKangtai

AstraZeneca signed a deal with Beijing-based Shenzhen Kangtai Biological Products (BioKangtai) ...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | News
J&J to produce 100M investigational COVID-19 Vaccine Doses for U.S.

Johnson & Johnson on 5 August 2020 announced it's Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies have entered into an agreeme...

August 5, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia issues new information for vaccine manufacturers

Vaccine manufacturers seeking listing on the National Immunisation Program (NIP) Schedule must ask for advice from ...

August 5, 2020 | Wednesday | News
J&J to commence Ph III trial of COVID-19 vaccine in Sept

American multinational corporation Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has announced that its lead vaccine candidate pr...

August 3, 2020 | Monday | News
Pfizer, BioNTech to supply 120M doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Japan

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE have announced an agreement with the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan ...

August 3, 2020 | Monday | News
COVID-19 Vaccines Test Safe & Effective by China & UK teams: the Lancet

The two leading vaccine candidates CanSinoBIO of China and AZD1222 of UK have proven the safety and efficacy a...

July 24, 2020 | Friday | News
UQ begins human dosing of COVID-19 vaccine

The next critical phase for Australia's University of Queensland’s COVID-19 vaccine is underway – with the r...

July 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
CanSino first with Ph II COVID-19 vaccine results

CanSino Biologics Inc., an innovative biopharmaceutical company dedicated to vaccine R&D and commercialization, has ...

July 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Fosun Pharma's licensed COVID-19 vaccine gets NMPA acceptance

Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co., Ltd. has announced that its subsidiary Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Industri...

July 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Sanofi, Translate Bio to develop mRNA vaccines across all infectious disease areas

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines global business unit of Sanofi, and Translate Bio, a clinical-stage messenger RNA (mRNA) th...

June 29, 2020 | Monday | News
Japan repurposes hypertension vaccine for COVID-19 treatment

The Osaka-based Japanese biotech AnGes Inc. expects its potential COVID-19 vaccine to be ready as early as the first hal...

June 29, 2020 | Monday | News
World's 1st inactivated COVID-19 vaccine produces Abs

The Phase I/II clinical trials of the world's first inactivated COVID-19 vaccine, developed by Wuhan Institute of Biolog...

June 24, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Genexine enters human trial of COVID-19 vaccine

South Korea based Genexine has announced that it is the first domestic pharmaceutical company to have been approved for ...

June 24, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Approved and effective vaccine against COVID-19 may not be available until 2021 summer: IHS Markit

Ten COVID-19 vaccine candidates are currently in clinical trials (as of 4 June). These are listed in the below, in appro...

June 19, 2020 | Friday | Opinion
Clover Biopharma initiates Ph 1 trial for COVID-19 vaccine

Clover Biopharmaceuticals, headquartered in China, has announced that the first participants have been dosed in the Phas...

June 22, 2020 | Monday | News
Daiichi Sankyo to develop mRNA vaccine against COVID-19

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has announced its decision to develop a genetic (mRNA) vaccine for the novel corona viru...

June 23, 2020 | Tuesday | News
India's Serum Institute to play pivotal role in COVID-19 vaccines

Serum Institute of India (SII) is the world’s largest vaccine producer in terms of volume. SII is currently workin...

June 18, 2020 | Thursday | Analysis
“Beyond! Health Hack” invites Pharma-medical students to address flu-vaccine challenges

In collaboration with the International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation’s (IPSF) and the International F...

June 18, 2020 | Thursday | News
Sinovac to initiate Ph 3 trial of COVID-19 vaccine

China-based Sinovac Biotech Ltd. inked a clinical development collaboration agreement with a Brazilian producer of immun...

June 16, 2020 | Tuesday | News
BioNTech secures $112.55M for COVID-19 vaccine production

Gernam firm BioNTech SE closed USD112.55 million debt financing agreement to support the development of the company&rsqu...

June 16, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Moderna advances Late-Stage development of mRNA-1273 Vaccine against COVID-19

Moderna, Inc. announced on 11 June 2020 about progress on the late-stage development of mRNA-1273, the Company&rsqu...

June 12, 2020 | Friday | News
A novel method protects vaccines from heat degradation at RT for 3 yr

Heat degradation of the proteins in vaccines render these expensive and precious biomedical products ineffective. Scient...

June 11, 2020 | Thursday | News
MERS vaccine shows promise for COVID-19 vaccine development

A recent Phase I clinical trial performed at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf for a Middle East respirato...

June 7, 2020 | Sunday | News
AstraZeneca Commits to 2 Billion Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine

UK-based AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford partnered on the global development and distribution ...

June 7, 2020 | Sunday | News
Novavax receives $60m from DOD to secure 10 million COVID-19 vaccine doses

Novavax commenced Phase I clinical trial for their COVID-19 vaccine "NVX-CoV2373" a stable prefusion protein antige...

June 7, 2020 | Sunday | News
INOVIO, IVI to start Ph 1/2 trials of COVID-19 vaccine in South Korea

US based INOVIO, the International Vaccine Institute (IVI), and Seoul National University Hospital have announ...

June 8, 2020 | Monday | News
University of Queensland, CEPI and CSL partner for COVID-19 vaccine

CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, CSL and The University of Queensland (UQ) have announced that...

June 5, 2020 | Friday | News
CEPI awards Chikungunya vaccine "BBV87" $14.1 million

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) on 3 June 2020 announced a new partnering agreement to advanc...

June 3, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Chikungunya Vaccine Candidate 'VLA1553' set to enter Phase 3 Study

Chikungunya is considered to be a major public health threat by the World Health Organization. A speciality vaccine...

June 2, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Moderna Advances in Platform Science and Innovative Vaccine Research

Moderna, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to creat...

June 2, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Moderna finalizing protocol for Ph 3 study of COVID-19 vaccine

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

June 4, 2020 | Thursday | News
Intravacc, EpiVax to develop novel COVID-19 vaccine

The Netherlands-based Intravacc, one of the world's leading translational research and development vaccine ins...

June 3, 2020 | Wednesday | News
IAVI, Merck to develop vaccine against SARS-CoV-2

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and IAVI, a nonprofit scientific research organization dedicat...

May 29, 2020 | Friday | News
Novavax begins Ph 1/2 trial of COVID-19 vaccine

US based Novavax, Inc., a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious di...

May 28, 2020 | Thursday | News
Vaxine announces COVID-19 vaccine collaboration with Medytox

Vaxine Pty Ltd., Adelaide, Australia announced that it has entered into a formal collaboration with Medytox Inc., a Kore...

May 27, 2020 | Wednesday | News
PharmaJet, Abnova to use needle-free injection technology for COVID-19 vaccine

US based PharmaJet®, the maker of innovative, needle-free injection technology, has announced that its Needle-free I...

May 25, 2020 | Monday | News
Sinovac secures $15 M for COVID-19 vaccine development

Sinovac Biotech Ltd., a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, has announced a transaction in which Ad...

May 25, 2020 | Monday | News
AGC Biologics partners with Takara Bio in COVID-19 fight

Denmark headquartered AGC Biologics, a global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) for Biopharmace...

May 22, 2020 | Friday | News
Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine shows positive interim Ph 1 results

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

May 20, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Japan to design personalized cancer vaccine

Transgene, a biotech company in Tokyo that designs and develops virus-based immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer,...

May 15, 2020 | Friday | News
Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine enters Ph 2 trial

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

May 14, 2020 | Thursday | News
Pfizer, BioNTech initiate human trials with COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE  announced on 5 May 2020 that the first participants have been dosed in the U.S. in the...

May 7, 2020 | Thursday | News
CEPI invests $3.5M in Clover Australia for COVID-19 vaccine

Norway based CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations has announced a ninth worldwide collaboration to ...

May 1, 2020 | Friday | News
NanoPass joins pharma partners for COVID-19 vaccine development

Novel Coronavirus presents a global pandemic with unprecedented medical, economic and social scales. Since there is curr...

April 27, 2020 | Monday | News
CanSino Bio enrols for Ph 2 trial of COVID-19 vaccine

China’s CanSino Biologics advancing its SARS-CoV-2 vaccine to a Phase II clinical trial making this vaccine c...

April 27, 2020 | Monday | News
NEC designs blueprints for COVID-19 vaccines using AI

Japan based NEC Corporation has announced analysis results from efforts using AI prediction platforms to design blueprin...

April 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Inovio to begin Ph 1/2 clinical trial of COVID-19 vaccine

South Korea based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) has announced that the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innov...

April 20, 2020 | Monday | News
Three Chinese vaccines against COVID-19 are on the way

According to the latest news from Science and Technology Daily, two COVID-19 inactivated vaccines were just approved f...

April 17, 2020 | Friday | News
India, Australia partner to develop vaccine for COVID-19

Indian Immunologicals Limited (IIL), a leading vaccines manufacturing company, has announced that the company is going t...

April 8, 2020 | Wednesday | News
CSIRO begins testing COVID-19 vaccines

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

April 2, 2020 | Thursday | News
Medicago announces production of viable vaccine candidate for COVID-19

Medicago, a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Quebec City, Canada has announced that they have successfully pro...

March 27, 2020 | Friday | News
Novavax, Serum Institute of India to co-develop malaria Vaccine

Novavax and Serum Institute of India (SII) has announced a commercial license agreement for the use of Novavax’ pr...

March 17, 2020 | Tuesday | News
CEPI expands investment in COVID-19 vaccine development

CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, on 10 March 2020 announced the expansion of its COVID-19 vacc...

March 11, 2020 | Wednesday | News
SII expects human trials for COVID-19 vaccine in 6 months

Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd. (SIIPL), the world's largest vaccine manufacturer by number of doses produced and sol...

February 20, 2020 | Thursday | News
NUS works on COVID-19 vaccine trial and rapid test kits

Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) community are working on a vaccine trial and rapid detection ...

February 19, 2020 | Wednesday | News
WuXi Vaccines to build integrated manufacturing facility

WuXi Vaccines, a new vaccine Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) established between WuXi Biologi...

February 18, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Pfizer Vaccines launches global centers of excellence network

Pfizer Inc. has announced the launch of its Vaccines Division’s Centers of Excellence Network, a global program of...

January 24, 2020 | Friday | News

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