GSK announces launch of Herpes Zoster vaccine Shingrix in Malaysia

GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceutical Sdn Bhd (GSK) has announced the launch of its Herpes Zoster vaccine, Shingrix, ...

September 13, 2024 | Friday | News
BIOCHINA 2025: China’s Largest Bio Convention to Host Over 3,000 Biotech Companies

Looking ahead, BIOCHINA 2025 has officially announced its next conference, set for March 13-15, 2025. The 10th edition o...

September 12, 2024 | Thursday | News
French firm Osivax grants rights to KM Biologics to develop and market influenza vaccine in Japan

Osivax, a FRance-based biopharmaceutical company developing vaccines to provide broad-spectrum protection against highly...

September 10, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Moderna’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine targeting SARS-COV-2 Variant JN.1 receives approval in Taiwan

Moderna, Inc. has announced that the Taiwan Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an updated formulation of ...

September 4, 2024 | Wednesday | News
mRNA as novel active ingredient – PlasmidFactory providing the template for tomorrow’s vaccines

  Q: The usage of messenger RNA (mRNA) as novel active ingredient has attracted public attention in recent years, ...

September 2, 2024 | Monday | News
Bavarian Nordic receives approval of Smallpox and Mpox vaccine in Singapore

Danish firm Bavarian Nordic A/S has announced that Singapore’s medicines regulatory authority, Health Sciences Aut...

August 27, 2024 | Tuesday | News
New $3.3 M lab in Australia to design and manufacture cancer vaccines

A new facility at The University of Queensland (UQ) is set to provide Australian researchers with cancer vaccines tailor...

July 29, 2024 | Monday | News
Korea announces KRW 55 B funding for five years to develop vaccine storage technology, therapeutics

Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) recent...

July 27, 2024 | Saturday | News
Korea's SK bioscience invests $2 M in US biotech startup Sunflower Therapeutics

SK bioscience, a global innovative vaccine and biotech company based in South Korea, has signed a Simple Agreement for F...

July 25, 2024 | Thursday | News
CEPI backs Valneva with $41.3 M funding to increase access to world’s first Chikungunya vaccine

Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and French biotech firm Valneva SE, have expanded th...

July 24, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Canada reveals intention to join International Vaccine Institute in Korea

Mélanie Joly, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, visited the International Vaccine Institute’s (IV...

July 23, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Indian Immunologicals donates anti-rabies vaccine to economically backward provinces of Vietnam

Indian Immunologicals Ltd (IIL), led by its Chairman Dr Meenesh Shah and Managing Director Dr K. Anand Kumar, has donate...

July 16, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Mitsubishi to promote Moderna's mRNA respiratory vaccine portfolio in Japan

Moderna, Inc. and Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation  have entered into a joint agreement regarding the co-promot...

July 10, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Merck inks MoU with Afrigen Biologics for development of mRNA vaccine technology platform

Merck, a leading science and technology company, has announced that its life science business sector has entered a...

July 3, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Korea strengthens efforts for development & clinical trials of infectious disease vaccines

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Catholic...

July 3, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Gavi to boost access to life-saving human rabies vaccines in over 50 countries

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in collaboration with partners, has announced support for human rabies vaccines for post exp...

June 13, 2024 | Thursday | News
Korea-Africa partnership for vaccine research and development

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) has exchanged a trilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Korea Ad...

June 11, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Australia-US ink $32 M partnership for vaccine discovery & development

Queensland will be a major international hub for vaccine discovery and development with a $32 million partnership secure...

June 4, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Singapore develops promising vaccine approach for longer-lasting protective immunity against COVID-19

A scientific team from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) and Mo...

June 5, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Bavarian Nordic and CEPI partner to advance Mpox vaccination in Africa

Bavarian Nordic A/S and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) have announced a partnership to advan...

June 3, 2024 | Monday | News
Singapore includes Novavax XBB.1.5 COVID-19 vaccine under National Vaccination Programme

Singapore's Ministry of Health has announced that Novavax/Nuvaxovid XBB.1.5 COVID-19 vaccine will be available under the...

May 30, 2024 | Thursday | News
The 6th Annual Saudi International Vaccination Forum – Pioneering Global Health through Immunization

Under the esteemed patronage of the Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, represented by the Infection Prevent...

May 20, 2024 | Monday | News
Singapore approves world's first respiratory syncytial virus vaccine for older adults

GSK's Arexvy has been approved by the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) of Singapore for active immunisation for...

May 16, 2024 | Thursday | News
Department of Health, Abu Dhabi partners with GSK to establish regional vaccine distribution hub

The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH), the regulator of the healthcare sector in the Emirate, ...

May 15, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Scientists in Korea explore use of COVID-19 variant vaccine against other coronaviruses

An international consortium of researchers developing a vaccine against troublesome COVID-19 variants will receive addit...

May 15, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Novavax & Sanofi ink $1.2 B deal for COVID-19 vaccine & COVID-19-Influenza combination vaccines

American firm Novavax, Inc., a global company advancing protein-based vaccines with its Matrix-M adjuvant, has...

May 10, 2024 | Friday | News
China-based WestGene's mRNA therapeutic cancer vaccine receives US FDA approval

WestGene, a China-based biotech company dedicated to mRNA technology, has announced a historic milestone with the US FDA...

May 10, 2024 | Friday | News
Navigation and evaluation of the 'Long COVID' impact on Asia's public health

The SARS CoV-2 infection can cause a wide range of recurring or persistent health concerns among the populations infecte...

May 8, 2024 | Wednesday | Opinion
Hong Kong approves Pfizer's vaccine to fight against lower respiratory tract disease

American firm Pfizer Inc. has announced that the Hong Kong Department of Health (DH) has granted marketing authorisation...

May 9, 2024 | Thursday | News
Hong Kong designs computational model to facilitate improvement of influenza vaccines’ protective effects

A research team from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)’s Faculty of Medicine (CU Medicine) has developed ...

May 2, 2024 | Thursday | News
Korea-based EuBiologics’ cholera vaccine achieves WHO prequalification

EuBiologics and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI), based in South Korea, have announced that Euvichol-S, an impr...

April 18, 2024 | Thursday | News
Bharat Biotech and Bilthoven Biologicals announce collaboration to supply oral polio vaccines

India-based Bharat Biotech, a global leader in vaccine and biotherapeutic innovation, also the largest manufacturer of o...

April 3, 2024 | Wednesday | News
WHO launches CoViNet: a global network for coronaviruses

WHO has launched a new network for coronaviruses, CoViNet, to facilitate and coordinate global expertise and capacities ...

March 28, 2024 | Thursday | News
Recbio and Rongsheng Biotech collaborate over a new Adjuvant Vaccine Project in China

Two Chinease firms, Jiangsu Recbio Technology Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Rongsheng Biotech Co.,Ltd. have partnered to l...

March 27, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Altamira Therapeutics Partners with Univercells on mRNA Vaccine Nanodelivery

Under the terms of the agreement, Univercells will test in vitro and in vivo a proprietary mRNA vacc...

March 26, 2024 | Tuesday | News
SK bioscience exports influenza vaccine to Thailand, entering Southern Hemisphere market

SK bioscience has shipped approximately 440,000 doses of SKYCellflu to Biogenetech in Thailand from its v...

March 21, 2024 | Thursday | News
Biological E to manufacture oral cholera vaccine for India and global markets

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) has commenced a technology transfer of simplified Oral Cholera V...

March 21, 2024 | Thursday | News
Singapore Scientific Colloquium unveils mRNA vaccine R&D consortiums

At the mRNA Technology Transfer Program organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Medicines Patent Pool (MPP)...

March 19, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute initiates Ph 3 trial of TB vaccine candidate

The Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute (Gates MRI) has announced that a Phase 3 clinical trial to asses...

March 19, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Study indicates need for introduction of typhoid conjugate vaccines in endemic countries

There is a high burden of typhoid fever in sub-Saharan African countries, according to a new study published in The...

March 13, 2024 | Wednesday | News
New ‘spin freezing’ technique to enhance future mRNA vaccines

A top-ranking public research university in Belgium has received funding from Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Prepar...

March 12, 2024 | Tuesday | News
SK bioscience expands manufacturing facility in Korea for pneumococcal vaccine production

SK bioscience, South Korea-based vaccine and biotech company, has broken ground on a major expansion of its vaccine manu...

March 7, 2024 | Thursday | News
New research to investigate next generation ‘trans-amplifying’ mRNA vaccines

Scientists in the US are set to test a new vaccine approach that could overcome some of the challenges associated with t...

March 7, 2024 | Thursday | News
China Life Science Conference and China Life Science Expo (CILSE) Set to Drive Innovation and Collaboration in Guangzhou

The China Association for Science and Technology (CAS) Consortium of Life Sciences Societies is proud to announce the ...

March 7, 2024 | Thursday | News
Japan's NEC forges clinical development of Neoantigen Cancer Vaccine

Japan's NEC Corporation, AI and digital tech firm along with Transgene, which develops virus-based immunotherapies for c...

March 5, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Korea's International Vaccine Institute opens country office in Kenya

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) will open a Country and Project Office in Kenya dedicated to the...

March 5, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Medidata and Sanofi Vaccine partners to enable remote patient monitoring with real-time data collection

Medidata, a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes, a leading provider of clinical trial solutions for the life sciences...

February 29, 2024 | Thursday | News
International Vaccine Institute to open Africa Regional Office in Rwanda

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI), and the Ministry of Health of Rwanda have announced that IVI wi...

February 28, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Takeda accelerates dengue vaccine access through manufacturing partnership with Biological E in India

Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda has announced a strategic partnership with Biological E, a le...

February 27, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Korea's SK bioscience obtains WHO prequalification for typhoid conjugate vaccine

SK bioscience, a South Korea-based vaccine and biotech company, has obtained prequalification (PQ) certification from th...

February 27, 2024 | Tuesday | News
US-based VBI Vaccines sells manufacturing capabilities to China's Brii Biosciences for $33 M

US-based VBI Vaccines Inc., a biopharmaceutical company driven by immunology in the pursuit of powerful prevention and t...

February 16, 2024 | Friday | News
Experts advocate HPV Vaccination Programmes for Gynaecologic Cancer prevention in MENA region

The 16th Obstetrics and Gynaecology Conference took place on 30 January under the theme ‘From evidence to practice...

January 30, 2024 | Tuesday | Opinion
GSK Australia announces regulatory approval of respiratory syncytial virus vaccine AREXVY

GSK Australia has received Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) approval of AREXVY (respiratory syncytial virus v...

January 19, 2024 | Friday | News
Zuellig Pharma & Substipharm Biologics expand access to Japanese Encephalitis vaccine across Asia

Singapore-based Zuellig Pharma has announced its commercialisation partnership with French pharmaceutical company Substi...

January 16, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Singapore's Duke-NUS scientists discover potential nasal COVID-19 vaccine candidate

A team of scientists, led by Singapore’s Duke-NUS Medical School, has discovered a potential intranasal vaccine ca...

January 10, 2024 | Wednesday | News
CEPI partners with Korean biotech startup Lemonex to advance mRNA vaccine delivery

Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations(CEPI) has partnered with Lemonex Inc. (Lemonex), a bi...

January 5, 2024 | Friday | News
Korea gives license to Euvichol-S, simplified formulation of oral cholera vaccine

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and EuBiologics Co have announced the licensure for export by the Korean Minis...

January 2, 2024 | Tuesday | News
CEPI and PATH strengthen partnership to accelerate development of vaccines

Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and US-based nonprofit global health organisation&nb...

December 19, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Novavax's updated COVID-19 vaccine receives emergency use authorisation in Taiwan

American firm Novavax, Inc., a global company advancing protein-based vaccines with its Matrix-M™ adjuvant, h...

December 18, 2023 | Monday | News
Novo Nordisk Foundation commits up to $260 M to establish research and vaccine development initiative

Denmark-based Novo Nordisk Foundation is committing up to DKK 1.8 billion ($260 million) to establish a state-...

December 18, 2023 | Monday | News
CEPI supports novel mRNA vaccine development in Korea to protect against future Disease X

Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) has partnered with Korea’s Chungbuk National U...

December 12, 2023 | Tuesday | News
DxVx plans clinical trials of cancer vaccine in Asia, including Korea and China

South Korea-based DxVx will conduct its own clinical trials of OVM-200, an anti-cancer vaccine from Oxford Vacmedix (OVM...

November 27, 2023 | Monday | News
Chulalongkorn University in Thailand supports UK-South East Asia vaccine manufacturing research hub

Thailand's Chulalongkorn University and the University of Sheffield, England, have signed an academic cooperation agreem...

November 24, 2023 | Friday | News
Korea accelerates innovations in vaccines and immunology

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have signed...

November 23, 2023 | Thursday | News
SK bioscience and Hilleman Laboratories to develop Zaire Ebola Virus vaccine

South Korea-based SK bioscience has entered into a development licensing agreement with Hilleman Laboratories, in Singap...

November 22, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Hong Kong Jockey Club Global Health Institute to bolster global preparedness for future pandemics

The University of Hong Kong (HKU), the University of Cambridge (UCAM), and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) hav...

November 17, 2023 | Friday | News
New typhoid conjugate vaccine Bio-TCV receives approval in Indonesia

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and Bio Farma, a biotechnology company based in West Java, Indon...

November 14, 2023 | Tuesday | News
US FDA approves first chikungunya vaccine Ixchiq developed by Austria's Valneva

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Ixchiq, the first chikungunya vaccine, developed by Valneva ...

November 10, 2023 | Friday | News
Hilleman Lab invest $20M to launch new ACES cGMP Facility in Singapore

On 9 November, Hilleman Laboratories opened its ACES current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) facility in Singapore w...

November 9, 2023 | Thursday | Company results
UK injects £33 M to develop vaccines for diseases with epidemic potential in LMICs

Four vaccine hubs have received a share of £33 million of UK aid funding via the Department of Health and Soc...

November 9, 2023 | Thursday | News
The Netherlands bolsters pandemic preparedness with increased funding

The Netherlands Ministry of Health, Sports and Welfare has announced an additional EUR 14 million contribution to Norway...

November 7, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korea's SK Bioscience to boost vaccine manufacturing in Africa

South Korea-based SK bioscience recently announced that Dr Jean Kaseya, Director General, African Centers...

November 6, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea organises training programme for African vaccine manufacturing players

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) has partnered with KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTR...

November 1, 2023 | Wednesday | News
CEPI to harness Moderna’s mRNA platform for vaccine development against viral disease outbreaks

Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and American firm Moderna, Inc. have entered into ...

October 30, 2023 | Monday | News
World-first trial by Australia to test efficacy of Strep A and rheumatic heart disease vaccine

Australia-based Griffith University’s Institute for Glycomics has received a $5 million philanthropic donation fro...

October 25, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Reinforcing healthcare equity, access, and resilience by fine-tuning the pharma supply chain in ASEAN market

As the world is progressively rebounding from pandemic impact, Moderna is constantly developing next-generation combinat...

October 19, 2023 | Thursday | Opinion
Australia’s Doherty Institute joins CEPI to speed up pandemic vaccines development

The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, a joint venture between the University of Melbourne and the Roya...

October 20, 2023 | Friday | News
Vaccine production workforce training programme to enhance APAC's pandemic-response capacity

The Ministry of Health and Welfare in South Korea has announced that the Ministry and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) a...

October 17, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Singapore explores genetic glycoengineering to advance vaccines & therapeutics technology

A novel glycoengineering platform, created by the researchers at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of...

October 17, 2023 | Tuesday | News
GSK and Zhifei announce exclusive strategic vaccine partnership in China

British pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has reached an exclusive agreement with Chongqing Zhifei Biologic...

October 13, 2023 | Friday | News
Gates Foundation to accelerate mRNA vaccine innovation in Africa and globally

At the recently held 2023 Grand Challenges Annual Meeting, Bill Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundati...

October 13, 2023 | Friday | News
Japan's GHIT joins hands with Institut Pasteur de Dakar in Africa to develop new diagnostics & vaccines

The Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund), headquartered in Japan, and the Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD...

October 16, 2023 | Monday | News
China to support localised vaccine production in Zimbabwe and Africa

Dr Deckster Tonny SAVADYE, CEO of Zimbabwe National Biotechnology Authority (NBA), and Dr Yang Yili, Internati...

October 11, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Saudi Arabia’s Vaccine Industrial Company advances novel infectious disease solutions

UK-based Emergex Vaccines Holding has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Saudi Arabia-based startup Vaccine I...

October 10, 2023 | Tuesday | News
French pharma firm Sanofi opens new research site at Griffith University in Australia

Sanofi, one of the world’s leading healthcare companies, has progressed its partnership with Griffith University b...

October 9, 2023 | Monday | News
WHO recommends Japanese firm Takeda's dengue vaccine for children aged 6 to 16 yrs

Japan-based pharmaceutical company Takeda has announced that the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Strategic Advis...

October 4, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japan approves GSK's Arexvy, country’s first RSV vaccine for adults

British pharma firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (...

September 27, 2023 | Wednesday | News
CEPI supports Indonesia-based Bio Farma's vaccine manufacturing capability with $15 M investment

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) in Norway, and Indonesia-based company Bio Farma have en...

September 20, 2023 | Wednesday | News
IVI and Grid Biosciences partner for Epstein-Barr virus vaccine development for global access

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI), an international organisation with a mission to discover, devel...

September 16, 2023 | Saturday | News
Clover Biopharma launches quadrivalent influenza vaccine in Mainland China

Clover Biopharmaceuticals has announced the launch of AdimFlu-S (QIS) in mainland China, where it is the only imported q...

September 13, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea-Serbia collaboration to establish vaccine manufacturing facilities

South Korea-based SK bioscience has announced that Ana Brnabić, Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia (Serbia) visit...

September 8, 2023 | Friday | News
Korea to support fill and finish of oral cholera vaccine in Ghana

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI), EuBiologics, and DEK Vaccines have signed a Memorandum of Under...

September 6, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea's IVI renews partnership with CEPI to accelerate development of vaccines

Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the International Vaccine Insti...

September 4, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea's IVI launches typhoid conjugate vaccine campaign in Africa

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI), an international organisation with a mission to discover, devel...

August 28, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea's GC Biopharma to produce cholera vaccines jointly with Eubiologics

South Korea-based GC Biopharma has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Eubiologics (also based in South Kore...

August 25, 2023 | Friday | News
New study in Singapore highlights need for refreshed vaccination strategies

Scientists led by a team from Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore have identified three distinct serotypes of SARS-rela...

August 25, 2023 | Friday | News
Australia-Korea joint development agreement for needle-free patch delivery of typhoid vaccine

South Korea-based SK bioscience has entered into a collaboration agreement with Vaxxas, an Australian biotechnology comp...

August 29, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan to design universal vaccines targeting tropical infectious diseases

Japan-based Nagasaki University and NEC OncoImmunity (NOI), a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company,  will c...

August 21, 2023 | Monday | News
Japanese govt injects $115 M to enhance mRNA manufacturing

US-based Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc., has announced that ARCALIS Co., its manufacturing joint venture in Japan t...

August 16, 2023 | Wednesday | News
First step towards new vaccine for childhood ear infections in Australia

Australia's University of Adelaide researchers have started work on developing a new vaccine that could help ward off pa...

August 9, 2023 | Wednesday | News

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