SK bioscience announces equity investment in Novavax to strengthen strategic partnership

South Korea-based SK bioscience, an innovative vaccine and biotech company, has decided to make an equity investment in ...

August 9, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Bio Farma and MSD launch human papillomavirus vaccine in Indonesia

Bio Farma Induk Holding BUMN Pharmacy, with its subsidiaries Kimia Farma and Indofarma, in collaboration with Merck Shar...

August 4, 2023 | Friday | News
Japan's Toyo Ink Group invests in US-based VLP Therapeutics to accelerate vaccine development

Toyo Ink SC Holdings, the parent company of Japan-based specialty chemicals manufacturer Toyo Ink Group, has concluded...

August 3, 2023 | Thursday | News
Zuellig Pharma and GSK establish vaccine distribution hub in Singapore

Zuellig Pharma, one of the largest healthcare services groups in Asia, has entered into an agreement with global biophar...

August 1, 2023 | Tuesday | News
“Making mRNA vaccines in Asia can potentially bring more affordable vaccines to the world”

What are the key opportunities and challenges for APAC vaccine manufacturers in adopting and utilising mRNA technology?&...

August 2, 2023 | Wednesday | Opinion
Korea's GC Biopharma gets its first-ever approval of quadrivalent flu vaccine in Africa

GC Biopharma, a South Korean biopharmaceutical company, has announced that its quadrivalent flu vaccine called GC F...

July 24, 2023 | Monday | News
GSK expands its state-of-the-art vaccines facility in Singapore with a S$343 million investment

GSK Singapore commemorated the groundbreaking ceremony for its S$343 million state-of-the-art vaccines facility at Tuas ...

July 13, 2023 | Thursday | Company results
Sanofi to manufacture and supply vaccines in Saudi Arabia

Lifera, a biopharmaceutical company in Saudi Arabia together with French multinational pharmaceutical and healthcar...

July 6, 2023 | Thursday | News
SK bioscience to transfer technology for strengthening vaccine manufacturing in Thailand

South Korea-based biotech firm SK bioscience has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government Pha...

July 6, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japan approves updated indication for GSK's Shingrix vaccine

British firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHL...

June 28, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea's SK bioscience inks agreement on influenza research with Doherty Institute in Australia

SK bioscience, a global innovative vaccine and biotech company based in South Korea, has signed a collaboratio...

June 28, 2023 | Wednesday | News
International Vaccine Institute inks new agreement with Seoul National University

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and Seoul National University signed an agreement to expand collaboration in r...

June 21, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Vaxxas opens manufacturing facility in Australia to produce needle-free vaccine patch

Vaxxas, a clinical-stage biotechnology company commercialising a novel vaccination platform technology, has announced th...

June 19, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea-Africa establish new partnership for vaccine R&D and biomanufacturing training

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD) in West Africa, have signed ...

June 14, 2023 | Wednesday | News
mRNA technology a ‘Game Changer’ for Asia-Pacific vaccine manufacturers: Merck study

According to a recent study sponsored by Merck, a leading science and technology company, mRNA technology is a “ga...

June 1, 2023 | Thursday | News
SK bioscience receives marketing authorisation of COVID-19 vaccine in UK

SK bioscience, based in South Korea, has announced the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (M...

May 31, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Devising a viable global strategy to combat Cholera

For reasons not yet fully understood, beginning in 2022 the world experienced an unprecedented surge in cholera outbreak...

May 31, 2023 | Wednesday | Opinion
Korea's International Vaccine Institute establishes Joint Research Institution in China

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) has sigend a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nankai ...

May 23, 2023 | Tuesday | News
China approves two COVID-19 vaccine trials against most recent circulating XBB variants

Recombinant bivalent COVID-19 protein vaccine (Sf9 cells) and recombinant trivalent COVID-19 trimeric protein vaccine (S...

May 22, 2023 | Monday | News
World’s first and only oral cholera vaccine in LDPE unidose pack launches in India

TechInvention Lifecare in India, has partnered with Eubiologics Co. in  South Korea,  to  launch Euv...

May 12, 2023 | Friday | News
International partnership supports vaccine research to prevent future outbreaks

Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Health, and Harjit S. Sajjan, Minister of International Development and Minister responsib...

May 8, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea begins clinical development of new low-cost oral cholera vaccine in capsule form

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI), based in South Korea, has begun clinical development of DuoChol, a new low-co...

May 1, 2023 | Monday | News
US FDA approves Pfizer’s 20-valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine for children

American pharmaceutical firm Pfizer Inc. has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved PREVN...

April 28, 2023 | Friday | News
Survey: One-third of COVID-19 vulnerable groups avoid booster shots

The results from a new YouGov survey called, ‘What’s Next for COVID-19 in Singapore?’, commissioned by...

April 25, 2023 | Tuesday | Company results
Singapore unveils new approach to aid pneumococcal vaccine development

Many disease-causing bacteria like Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) are encased in a sugar layer called the caps...

April 20, 2023 | Thursday | News
BioMinhai and Biotis to promote development of vaccine industry in Indonesia

Beijing Minhai Biotechnology Co., (BioMinhai), a wholly-owned subsidiary of China-based Shenzhen Kangtai Biological Prod...

April 8, 2023 | Saturday | News
Sanofi opens state-of-the-art facility in US for pandemic flu vaccines production

Sanofi and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the Administration for Strategic ...

April 6, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korean firm DxVx completes Phase 1a clinical trial of novel cancer vaccine

DXVX has announced that its affiliated company Oxford Vacmedix (OVM) has completed Phase 1a trial of cancer vaccine and ...

April 3, 2023 | Monday | News
Australian biotech behemoth CSL unveils new vaccine R&D facility in US

Australian biotech firm CSL recently celebrated the official opening of the company's new state-of-the-art research and ...

March 28, 2023 | Tuesday | News
New funding by NZ to boost RNA research into vaccines & healthcare

Victoria University of Wellington and University of Auckland, in New Zealand (NZ) have been named as co-hosts of a ...

March 27, 2023 | Monday | News
Singapore gives nod to Pfizer’s Pneumococcal 20-valent conjugate vaccine for adults

American pharmaceutical firm Pfizer has announced that the Singapore Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has approved its 20...

March 22, 2023 | Wednesday | News
China's first personalised neoantigen-targeted cancer vaccine gets clinical trial approval

Likang Life Sciences has received National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) approval for the clinical trial of its...

March 17, 2023 | Friday | News
Singapore-based RVAC Medicines collaborates with University of Pennsylvania for mRNA vaccine research

RVAC Medicines, Inc., a messenger RNA (mRNA) technology company with its global headquarters in Singapore, has anno...

March 20, 2023 | Monday | News
Takeda’s dengue vaccine receives first approval in Latin America

Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda's dengue vaccine, QDENGA  (Dengue Tetravalent Vaccine [Live, Attenuated...

March 15, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea's LG Chem to supply UNICEF with $200 M worth of essential vaccines

South Korean firm LG Chem has announced that it will supply essential vaccines, including polio vaccines, for infants an...

March 15, 2023 | Wednesday | News
New funding bolsters medical and science research collaborations in Australia

Australia's University of Sydney medical and science researchers will be involved in two successful Cooperative Res...

February 27, 2023 | Monday | News
Clover Biopharma to commercialise quadrivalent seasonal influenza vaccine in China

Clover Biopharmaceuticals has entered into an exclusive agreement with Adimmune Corporation for Clover to dist...

February 22, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea's GC Biopharma receives WHO prequalification for chickenpox vaccine

GC Biopharma, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in South Korea, has announced that the World Health Organ...

February 22, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Funding injection of $8 M for Strep A vaccine research in Australia

Australia's University of Queensland (UQ)-led research effort to develop an mRNA vaccine against Group A Streptococcus (...

February 20, 2023 | Monday | News
Clover Biopharma launches COVID-19 booster vaccine in China

Clover Biopharmaceuticals has announced that the launch of its COVID-19 vaccine, a recombinant SARS-CoV-2 subunit v...

February 16, 2023 | Thursday | News
SK bioscience invests $261 M to establish vaccine-biopharma hub in Korea

SK bioscience, a South Korea-based innovative vaccine and biotech company committed to promoting human health from preve...

February 9, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japanese firm Mitsubishi Tanabe stops commercialisation of COVID-19 vaccine

Japan-based Mitsubishi Chemical Group has decided to cease all of its operations at Medicago Inc., a Canadian subs...

February 6, 2023 | Monday | News
Australia further expands access to Japanese encephalitis vaccine

New South Wales (NSW) in Australia is further expanding free access to Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccine to ensure resi...

January 31, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korea's International Vaccine Institute opens Country Office in Austria

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI), based in Seoul (South Korea) has launched an IVI Country Office in&...

January 25, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea gives fast track approval to promising DNA vaccine for advanced cervical cancer

Genexine, a clinical-staged Korean biopharmaceutical company committed to the discovery and development of novel biologi...

January 23, 2023 | Monday | News
South Korea approves Novavax Nuvaxovid COVID-19 vaccine as adult booster

US-based Novavax, Inc. has announced that partner SK bioscience, based in South Korea, has received expanded manufacturi...

January 19, 2023 | Thursday | News
Hayat-Vax to be first COVID-19 vaccine produced in Arab world

In a historic move in the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced the c...

January 17, 2023 | Tuesday | News
New partnerships in Korea to transform mRNA technology into more vaccines

Gachon University, the Korea mRNA Vaccine Initiative (KmVAC), and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) recently exc...

January 16, 2023 | Monday | News
World's second developed shingles vaccine receives biologics license application approval in Malaysia

South Korea headquatered SK bioscience, a global innovative vaccine and biotech company, has received a biologics licens...

January 12, 2023 | Thursday | News
Demand booms for experimental mRNA in Australia

The University of Queensland (UQ) team has become the biggest supplier of experimental mRNA vaccines and therapies ...

January 12, 2023 | Thursday | News
IVI, Batavia Biosciences sign MoU for vaccine research and development

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI), a South Korea-based international organisation devoted to vaccines for global...

January 10, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Nasal COVID-19 vaccine stored in NEST Disposable Intranasal Atomisation Device receives EUA in China

On December 2nd, a nasal spray COVID-19 vaccine, VectorFlu ONE, was approved for emergency use (EU) by the national auth...

December 27, 2022 | Tuesday | News
MSD signs pact with Indonesia's Bio Farma for HPV vaccine production

Bio Farma, Holding SOE Pharmacy – with its subsidiaries Kimia Farma and Indofarma, has signed a framework agreemen...

December 20, 2022 | Tuesday | News
China-based biotech startup's mRNA vaccine receives EUA in Laos

Chinese biotech startup Stemirna Therapeutics has received an Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) from the FDA for ...

December 16, 2022 | Friday | News
Malaysia strives to develop children’s Hexavalent vaccine by 2023

Malaysia's Pharmaniaga LifeScience Sdn Bhd (PLS) and Pharmaniaga Berhad have signed a Research Collaboration Agreem...

December 14, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Moderna to expand Asia-Pacific presence with new Singapore subsidiary

Moderna, Inc., has announced its Singapore subsidiary with a new leadership announcement.  Evelyn Pang has been ap...

December 12, 2022 | Monday | News
Takeda’s dengue tetravalent vaccine QDENGA receives approval in European Union

Japanese pharmaceutical firm Takeda has announced that the European Commission (EC) has granted marketing authorisation ...

December 9, 2022 | Friday | News
CEPI boosts 'Coronavirus X' vaccine search with expanded VBI Vaccines deal

Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) is expanding its world-leading portfolio of potentia...

December 8, 2022 | Thursday | News
Vaxxas raises A$34 M to clinically advance needle-free vaccines

Vaxxas has completed a financing round which raised $23 million (A$34 million) in new funds. This investment round was l...

December 6, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia takes aim at next pandemic threat with new vaccine platform

Norway-based CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, is to put $5.7 million (AU$8.5 million) into the...

November 28, 2022 | Monday | News
XtalPi, CK Life Sciences announce AI-empowered tumour vaccine R&D in China

Chinese firm XtalPi is embarking on a strategic collaboration with CK Life Sciences, a member of the CK Hutchison Group....

November 25, 2022 | Friday | News
IVI, ST Pharm exchange MoU on clinical development of COVID-19 vaccine

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and ST Pharm have exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a...

November 25, 2022 | Friday | News
SK bioscience announces KRW 3 Bn donation to IVI to support advancement of global vaccine R&D

SK bioscience, a leading vaccine manufacturer based in the Republic of Korea and a key partner of the International Vacc...

November 18, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia offers new nasal vaccine strategy to improve COVID-19 protection

Researchers from the Centenary Institute and the University of Sydney in Australia have developed a new nasal vaccinatio...

November 17, 2022 | Thursday | News
Lemonex, IVI exchange MoU on joint vaccine development in Korea

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI), in South Korea, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Lemonex, ...

November 14, 2022 | Monday | News
CSL signs $4 B agreement with Arcturus Therapeutics for self-amplifying mRNA vaccines

US-based Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc. has announced a strategic collaboration with CSL Seqirus, a global vaccine ...

November 4, 2022 | Friday | News
Hilleman, MSD to develop thermostable next-gen Zaire ebolavirus vaccine

Singapore-based Hilleman Laboratories has announced collaberative efforts to develop a thermostable second-generati...

November 1, 2022 | Tuesday | News
CanSino Biologics rolls out inhaled vaccine Convidecia Air in Shanghai

CanSino Biologics has announced that its recombinant COVID-19 vaccine (Adenovirus Type 5 Vector) for inhalation (Convide...

November 1, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Who Needs Next Gen Vax Tech?

Globally, mass vaccination practices and procedures were not pleasant experiences for everyone. Different age groups and...

October 31, 2022 | Monday | Analysis
SK bioscience and Hilleman to co-develop novel vaccine platforms

South Korea's SK bioscience has entered a strategic partnership with Singapore based Hilleman Laboratories to co-develop...

October 27, 2022 | Thursday | News
SK bioscience gets $140 M from CEPI to develop mRNA vaccines

South Korea-based SK bioscience has made a new partnership agreement with Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedne...

October 26, 2022 | Wednesday | News
LimmaTech partners with Australia's Griffith University for world’s first vaccine against gonorrhoea

Swiss firm LimmaTech Biologics AG has announced a license and collaboration agreement with Griffith University...

October 25, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Etana unveils biopharmaceutical factory in Indonesia

PT Etana Biotechnologies Indonesia (Etana) on 7 October, 2022, inaugurated a biopharmaceutical factory located...

October 20, 2022 | Thursday | News
Immuno Cure secures HK$8 M funding support for HIV vaccine clinical trial

Immuno Cure BioTech, a clinical stage biotechnology group based in the Hong Kong Science Park specialising in DNA vaccin...

October 18, 2022 | Tuesday | News
EU recommends approval of Takeda's dengue vaccine

Japanese pharmaceutical firm Takeda has announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use...

October 18, 2022 | Tuesday | News
We are advancing two bivalent candidates for utilisation in global vaccination efforts

Singapore Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has granted an interim authorisation for the use of Moderna’s Omicr...

October 7, 2022 | Friday | Opinion
IVI announces 'vaccines partnership' with London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)...

October 4, 2022 | Tuesday | News
IVI partners with Hilleman to advance vaccine R&D and manufacturing

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) has signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with H...

October 4, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Global Health and Gavi Veteran Anuradha Gupta to lead Global Immunization at Sabin

Veteran public health leader Anuradha Gupta, who has spearheaded a host of successful global initiatives to improve the ...

October 4, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Indonesia's Bio Farma secures UNICEF contract for oral polio vaccine type 2

Indonesia's PT Bio Farma (Persero), the holding company for pharmaceutical state-owned enterprises (SOEs), will export i...

October 4, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia leads research to develop next generation of TB vaccines

The University of Sydney and The Centenary Institute, together with collaborators have been awarded an AU$19 million con...

September 30, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia invests in new study on COVID-19 vaccines with future variants emerging

The Australian government is investing in a new study on COVID-19 vaccines and infection to ultimately improve the care ...

September 26, 2022 | Monday | News
Singapore grants interim authorisation for first bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine

Singapore Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has granted an interim authorisation for the use of Moderna’s Omicr...

September 14, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia explores use of vaccinia virus-based vaccines to fight monkeypox

New research suggests recommended vaccinia virus (VACV)-based vaccines will mount a robust immune response against the m...

September 13, 2022 | Tuesday | News
China approves inhaled vaccine as COVID-19 booster dose

CanSino Biologics Inc has announced that the National Medical Products Administration of China (NMPA) has granted the co...

September 12, 2022 | Monday | News
Indonesian firm Bio Farma set to launch IndoVac COVID-19 vaccine

PT Bio Farma, the holding company for state-owned pharmaceutical companies in Indonesia, has nnounced a new milestone in...

September 12, 2022 | Monday | News
Polyplus Builds on Research and Commercial mRNA Support Portfolio with in vivo-jetRNA®+ Transfection Reagent

The new in vivo-jetRNA®+ transfection reagent an efficient, stable, and safe delivery system leading to 100% mR...

September 8, 2022 | Thursday | News
Bharat Biotech's COVID-19 intranasal vaccine gets 'emergency use' approval in India

Indian firm Bharat Biotech has announced that iNCOVACC (BBV154) has received approval under Restricted Use in Emergency ...

September 7, 2022 | Wednesday | News
China's Sinovac makes progress with trivalent COVID-19 vaccine

China-based Sinovac Biotech has announced that the Chilean Public Health Institute (Instituto de Salud Pública, I...

September 7, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Indonesia approves Takeda's dengue vaccine

Japanese firm Takeda has announced that the company’s dengue vaccine, QDENGA (Dengue Tetravalent Vaccine [Live, At...

August 23, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Moderna to build first mRNA production facility in Southern Hemisphere

Australia's Monash University has announced that US-based firm Moderna will be joining other world-leading research and ...

August 16, 2022 | Tuesday | News
CSIRO opens 'missing link' lab to developing Australian vaccine pipeline

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), an Australian Government agency responsible for sc...

August 11, 2022 | Thursday | News
UK advances key tools for Monkeypox vaccine research

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Norway has announced funding of up to $375,000 to the UK Med...

August 1, 2022 | Monday | News
Keeping Pace with Mutating Viruses

As of July 2022, uncertainty persists as waves of SARS-CoV-2 continue to emerge. Over time, new virus variants arise and...

July 30, 2022 | Saturday | Opinion
World-class Foot and Mouth Disease vaccine site to come up in South Korea

Argentina-based Biogénesis Bagó, an international biotechnology company focused on animal health and globa...

July 26, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Korea's IVI inks MoU with Moderna for vaccine R&D

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and US-based Moderna have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (...

July 21, 2022 | Thursday | News
SK bioscience to manufacture Novavax' COVID-19 vaccine against omicron

South Korea's SK bioscience has extended its partnership with Novavax, a US-based biotechnology company specializing in ...

July 22, 2022 | Friday | News
Indian Immunologicals opens new facility in New Zealand for sterile filtered serum

Pristine Biologicals NZ, a subsidiary of Indian Immunologicals Ltd (IIL) has inaugurated a new facility in Dargaville fo...

July 12, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Korea accelerates vaccine sovereignty by developing domestic COVID-19 vaccines

SK bioscience has announced that ‘SKYCovione,’ South Korea’s first COVID-19 vaccine candidate adjuvant...

July 1, 2022 | Friday | News
China's COVID-19 Homologous Booster demonstrates cross-neutralization against Omicron

China's Clover Biopharmaceuticals, a global clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel vaccines and biol...

June 29, 2022 | Wednesday | News

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