Serum to hold 15% in Biocon arm Biocon Biologics as part of a broad alliance that expects to leverage the partners' strengths and resources in vaccines and biologics. Pursuing opportunities based on the hot mRNA technology platform appears firmly on the table.
Biocon, Ltd. and the Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd. are combining forces in a multi-pronged alliance spanning vaccines and also antibodies targeting several infectious diseases as they seek to build scale in these businesses and have a significant impact globally, particularly across emerging markets.
Both partners also refer to the promise of mRNA technology and see this as a “very important opportunity” for the...
One Phase III trial hits but a second study misses by a mile.
The new US FDA vaccine guidelines introduced on 20 May might cause financial woes for Moderna, but overall vaccine makers should not be as impacted as feared.
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.
