Moderna details plans on how it will make enough of its coronavirus vaccine, and Sosei is using structure-based design technology to target a SARS-CoV-2 non-strucural protein. Meanwhile, the industry in India faces up to lockdown.
Moderna Inc. provided details about its plans to scale up manufacturing of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, mRNA-1273, at a 14 April "Vaccines Day" with investors.
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Kostaive is the first self-amplifying mRNA COVID-19 vaccine to receive approval from the European Commission and could provide serious competition to Pfizer/BioNTech's Comirnaty and Moderna's Spikevax.
A week after a downbeat forecast at J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, the US mRNA specialist has pocketed another sizeable sum from the US Department of Health and Human Services to accelerate development of an H5N1 mRNA pandemic influenza vaccine.
Pfizer’s and Moderna’s quarterly pandemic-related product sales could not mask other weaknesses while GSK’s quarter was marred by unimpressive non-pandemic vaccines sales.
Japanese distributor Meiji Seika Pharma is considering possible legal action against what it views as online slander around COVID-19 vaccine Kostaive, which received its global-first approval in Japan last year and has now been launched for regular vaccination in the country.
Roche believes it can ride out any short-term effects of US tariffs if they are imposed but wants to see reform of US and European pricing to help support the sector.
In its first pharma collaboration, Tessellate Bio has inked a deal potentially worth more than €500m with Boehringer Ingelheim for therapies for ALT tumors.
Japanese CDMO Bushu talks about a consortium designed to provide a broad range of development services to smaller foreign firms looking to bring high-need drugs to the Japanese market.
