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