EU evaluates Takeda's dengue vaccine candidate

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted the compa...

March 26, 2021 | Friday | News
AZD1222 US Phase III primary analysis confirms safety and efficacy

Positive high-level results from the primary analysis of the Phase III trial of AZD1222 in the US have confirmed vaccine...

March 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
Gavi board approves COVAX buffer for high-risk groups in humanitarian settings

The Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance on March 23, 2021, has approved the COVAX Buffer to ensure access to C...

March 24, 2021 | Wednesday | News
CanSinoBIO's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine Convidecia™ receives approval in Hungary

CanSinoBIO Biologics Inc. announced that the Hungarian National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition (OGYÉI) grant...

March 23, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo starts Ph 1/2 trial for mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in Japan

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has announced that it has started the first vaccinations in a phase 1/2 clinical trial i...

March 23, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia approves CSL - Seqirus to manufacture AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has approved manufacture of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine (ChAdOx1-S) in A...

March 22, 2021 | Monday | News
CEPI, HKU expand partnership for intranasal COVID-19 vaccine candidate

CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have announced an exp...

March 19, 2021 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo begins manufacture of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine in Japan

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Ltd announced on March 12, 2021, that it has started manufacturing the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vacc...

March 17, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Takeda, IDT support manufacturing of J&J's COVID-19 vaccine

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced a reciprocal agreement with IDT Biologika GmbH (“IDT&rdqu...

March 16, 2021 | Tuesday | News
BioVaxys enters bioproduction agreement with Wuxi Biologics for COVID-19 vaccine

British Columbia-registered BioVaxys Technology Corp., the world leader in haptenized protein vaccines for antiviral and...

March 16, 2021 | Tuesday | News
WHO grants EUL to J&J’s single-shot COVID-19 vaccine

Johnson & Johnson has announced that the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued emergency use listing (EUL) for ...

March 15, 2021 | Monday | News
Taiwan develops vaccine against all strains of influenza

Winter is the beginning of the annual influenza season, and every year, in its efforts to prepare the required vaccinati...

March 15, 2021 | Monday | News
EMA recommends COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen for authorisation in the EU

EMA has recommended granting conditional marketing author...

March 12, 2021 | Friday | News
Zuellig Pharma launches eZVax, a vaccine management solution

Zuellig Pharma, a leading healthcare services provider in Asia has launched eZVax, a vaccine management solution that en...

March 11, 2021 | Thursday | News
EU supports Member States with additional 4 million BioNTech-Pfizer doses

The European Commission has reached an agreement with BioNTech-Pfizer for the supply of four million more doses of COVID...

March 10, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Italian firms sign agreement to produce Sputnik V in Europe

The Italian-Russian Chamber of Commerce (CCIR) holds an aim of contributing to the development of economic, commercial, ...

March 10, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Moderna to provide 13 M doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Philippines

Moderna, Inc has announced a supply agreement with the Government of The Philippines for 13 million doses of the COVID-1...

March 9, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Takeda to import & distribute Moderna’s vaccine in Japan

Moderna, Inc has announced that Takeda Pharmaceutical Co, Ltd submitted a new drug application to the Government of Japa...

March 8, 2021 | Monday | News
GC Pharma to distribute 40M doses of Moderna vaccine in South Korea

GC Pharma has announced that it will support Moderna and the government of the Republic of Korea in the distribution of ...

March 5, 2021 | Friday | News
ECA approves HEPLISAV B®, a 2 dose adult Hepatitis B Adjuvanted Vaccine

Dynavax Technologies Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing novel vaccines,&...

March 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Johnson & Johnson receives EUA for COVID-19 vaccine

Johnson & Johnson has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued emergency use authorisatio...

March 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Pharma industry’s reputation rides on COVID-19 vaccine rollout

From 230 vaccine candidates, seven COVID-19 vaccines are being used in at least one country, three of which have been de...

February 20, 2021 | Saturday | Opinion
European Union contributes $1.2B to COVAX vaccine facility

The European Union has announced an additional $600M for the COVAX Facility, doubling its contribution to date for the g...

February 24, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Novavax inks agreement with SK Bioscience for 40 M vaccine doses for South Korea

Novavax, Inc, a biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, and SK Biosci...

February 21, 2021 | Sunday | News
Gavi signs memorandum of understanding with Novavax on behalf of COVAX Facility

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance announced today that it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Novavax that, com...

February 19, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore receives first shipment of Moderna vaccine

Singapore Ministry of Health (MOH) has announced that the first shipment of Moderna vaccines arrived in Singapore...

February 18, 2021 | Thursday | News
Globally 128 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered so far, updates WHO

WHo at a media briefing on Feb 10, 2021, updated that globally around 128 million vaccine doses administered so far and ...

February 10, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan secures 5M doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine

Moderna, Inc., a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, has announced two supp...

February 11, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia prepares training modules for COVID-19 vaccination workforce

The first Australian Government-funded training modules for the COVID-19 vaccination workforce, including for immunisati...

February 10, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Sinovac receives conditional marketing authorisation for COVID-19 vaccine in China

Sinovac Biotech Ltd has announced that the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has granted a condition...

February 10, 2021 | Wednesday | News
GlobalData reports the status of Global COVID-19 vaccine trials

While governments are ramping up vaccination programs, continued research into the effectiveness of the vaccines is impe...

February 8, 2021 | Monday | Analysis
Australia secures total of 20 M Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses

The Australian Government has secured an additional 10 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID 19 vaccine on the advi...

February 5, 2021 | Friday | News
Merck, BioNTech accelerate supply of urgently needed lipids

Merck and BioNTech are further expanding their strategic partnership. Merck, in close collaboration with BioNTech, will ...

February 5, 2021 | Friday | News
Sinovac Biotech files for conditional market authorisation for CoronaVac vaccine

Sinovac Biotech Ltd, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, announced that it has officially filed f...

February 5, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore approves interim authorization of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine

Moderna, Inc., a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, has announced that the...

February 4, 2021 | Thursday | News
ADB provides $25M to assist Philippines procure COVID-19 vaccines

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has allocated $25 million to help the Philippine government purchase vaccines for the c...

February 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine demonstrates 89.3% efficacy in UK Phase 3 Trial

Novavax, Inc., a biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, announced th...

February 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Bharat Biotech inks agreement with GSK, PATH to supply world's first malaria vaccine

GSK, PATH, and Bharat Biotech (BBIL) on Jan 27, 2021, announced the signing of a product transfer agreement for the mala...

January 31, 2021 | Sunday | News
Moderna to supply 40M COVID-19 Vaccine doses to Korea

Moderna, Inc., a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, on Jan 31, 2021,&...

January 31, 2021 | Sunday | News
CEPI Call provides up to $140 M in funding to vaccine developers

Norway based CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, has opened a new funding opportunity to support ...

January 29, 2021 | Friday | News
GI-Cell, IVI ink MOU to develop next-generation COVID-19 vaccine

GI-Cell, an affiliate of GI-Innovation, a biotechnology company for cell therapy development, signed a memor...

January 27, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Malaysia secures 18.4 M doses of Sputnik V and Sinovac vaccines

Health ministry in Malaysia has inked agreements to purchase Russian Gamaleya's Sputnik V vaccine (18.4 M doses) an...

January 28, 2021 | Thursday | News
Bioalpha strengthens COVID-19 vaccine distribution in Malaysia

Bioalpha International Sdn Bhd (BISB), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bioalpha, has entered into a Procurement and Di...

January 27, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Medigen Vaccine Biologics initiates Ph 2 trial of COVID-19 vaccine in Taiwan

Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corporation (MVC), a biopharmaceutical company focusing on the development and production of v...

January 29, 2021 | Friday | News
COMIRNATY becomes first COVID-19 vaccine to receive EUA in Hong Kong

BioNTech SE and Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co., Ltd. have announced that according to the Food...

January 27, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia provisionally approves Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has provisionally approved the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for use in Au...

January 25, 2021 | Monday | News
COVAX announces new agreement, plans for initial doses of vaccine deliveries

COVAX, the global initiative to ensure rapid and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all countries, regardle...

January 25, 2021 | Monday | News
Envirotainer invests in Taiwan to spearhead fast delivery of COVID-19 vaccines

Envirotainer, the global market leader and by far the largest provider of secure cold chain solutions for air transport ...

January 22, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia secures additional vaccine workforce

The Australian government is preparing for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout by securing an additional vaccine workforce and ...

January 22, 2021 | Friday | News
Pfizer and BioNTech invitro vaccine study shows efficient neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 U.K. strain

Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE on Jan 20, 2021 announced results from an in vitro study that provides additional d...

January 21, 2021 | Thursday | News
Nexelis acquires GSK vaccines clinical bioanalytical lab in Germany

Nexelis, a portfolio company of Ampersand Capital Partners, and a leading provider of advanced assay development an...

January 21, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore setting up multiple COVID-19 vaccination centres

To support COVID-19 vaccination efforts, the Singapore government is setting up four COVID-19 vaccination centres this m...

January 18, 2021 | Monday | News
Japan looking for comprehensive COVID-19 vaccination

Japan is aggressively making efforts to vaccinate its population for COVID-19 with a strong focus on signing pre-orders....

January 15, 2021 | Friday | Analysis
Viet Nam to secure 30 million doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine

Among the four countries, Viet Nam has reached an agreement with the UK-based vaccine producer AstraZeneca to guarantee ...

January 14, 2021 | Thursday | News
CEPI reveals significance of blood markers in assessing vaccine efficacy

The past few weeks have seen the regulatory approval of multiple safe and effective vaccines against Sars-CoV-2, the v...

January 14, 2021 | Thursday | News
UNICEF, WHO, IFRC and MSF announce the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile

The four leading international health and humanitarian organizations on Jan 12, 2021, announced the establishment of a g...

January 12, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Merck acquires AmpTec expanding mRNA capabilities for vaccines and diagnostics

Merck, a leading science and technology company, on Jan 7, 2021 announced the acquisition of Am...

January 8, 2021 | Friday | News
LG Chem contributes to global polio eradication with new vaccine

South Korean firm LG Chem has announced that its Sabin-Inactivated Polio Vaccine (Sabin-IPV) Eupolio™ received Wor...

January 8, 2021 | Friday | News
Thailand secures 2 M doses of COVID-19 vaccine

Ministry of Public Health Thailand has announced that it has secured the first 2 million doses of COVID-19 vac...

January 8, 2021 | Friday | News
Indonesia to begin COVID-19 vaccination from Mid January

Indonesia is ready to initiate a nationwide COVID-19 mass vaccination program from mid-January2021.&nbs...

January 7, 2021 | Thursday | News
Cellid inks vaccine research service contract with IVI

Cellid and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in South Korea have exchanged a collaborative research agreement to...

January 5, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Inovio adds Asian manufacturing resource to COVID-19 vaccine candidate

INOVIO, a US based biotechnology company focused on bringing to market precisely designed DNA medicines to treat and pro...

January 5, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Chinese firm initiates R&D of liquid nitrogen biological containers for vaccines storage

CIMC Enric Holdings has announced that its subsidiary Zhangjiagang CIMC Sanctum Cryogenic Equipment Co., Ltd recent...

January 4, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia injects $10 M for high potential COVID-19 related clinical trials

By mid-2021, volunteers aged between 18 and 75 years will be recruited for an accelerated clinical trial of two ‘n...

January 4, 2021 | Monday | News
IVI-SK’s new typhoid conjugate vaccine meets primary endpoints in ph III study in Nepal

Vi-DT typhoid conjugate vaccine, developed jointly by the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and SK bioscience, has m...

January 4, 2021 | Monday | News
India approves SII and Bharat Biotech's Covid-19 vaccines, EUA

The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved Serum Institute of India (SII) Covishield (developed by Ox...

January 4, 2021 | Monday | News
Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine first to receive emergency validation from WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) has listed the Comirnaty COVID-19 mRNA vaccine for emergency use, making the Pfizer/...

January 1, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore initiates COVID-19 vaccination with Pfizer-BioNTech jab

Singapore kick-started its national Covid-19 vaccination programme on 30 Dec 2020, with a senior staff nurse w...

January 1, 2021 | Friday | News
CEPI partners India based vaccines developer to advance COVID-19 vaccine candidate

CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and Biological E Limited, India (Bio E), a Hyderabad-based vac...

December 31, 2020 | Thursday | News
Taiwan secures 10 M doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

Taiwan's Health Minister and Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) has announced that the country has purchased ...

January 1, 2021 | Friday | News
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine receives EUA in the UK

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for emergency supply in the UK, with the first doses being releas...

December 31, 2020 | Thursday | News
Moderna to supply 40 M COVID-19 vaccine doses to South Korea

Moderna, Inc., a US based biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, today confirm...

December 31, 2020 | Thursday | News
Indonesia donates $1 M to further CEPI’s vaccine research

The Government of Indonesia and Norway based CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations,  have a...

December 29, 2020 | Tuesday | News
New Zeland to provide $75 M for Pacific and global COVID-19 vaccination support

New Zealand has announced $75 million of Official Development Assistance earmarked to support Pacific and global v...

December 29, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Korea secures COVID-19 vaccines via deals with Janssen, Pfizer

The Korean government has concluded deals with global pharmaceutical giants Janssen of Johnson and Johnson and...

December 28, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia rolls out strategies for COVID-19 vaccine supply and distribution

Australian Government has announced that it has signed contracts with the companies to partner for safe distributio...

December 28, 2020 | Monday | News
New Zealand secures AstraZeneca & Novavax COVID-19 vaccines

The New Zealand Government will purchase COVID-19 vaccines from pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Novavax, me...

December 24, 2020 | Thursday | News
DHL delivers first batch of COVID-19 vaccine to Singapore

DHL, the leading global brand in the logistics industry has announced the successful delivery of the first batch of COVI...

December 22, 2020 | Tuesday | News
COVAX plans global rollout of COVID-19 vaccine starting Q1 2021

COVAX, the global initiative to ensure rapid and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all countries, regardless of ...

December 21, 2020 | Monday | News
Moderna assures COVID-19 vaccine supply to Singapore

Moderna, Inc., a US based biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to create a ne...

December 18, 2020 | Friday | News
Sputnik V vaccine shows 91.4% efficacy in phase 3 clinical trials

The National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after N.F. Gamaleya of the Ministry of Health of th...

December 15, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Fosun Pharma inks agreement with BioNTech for COVID-19 vaccine supply in China

BioNTech and Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co, Ltd have announced an agreement to supply Mainland China with 100...

December 16, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore shares COVID-19 vaccination strategy with newly approved Pfizer vaccine

With the Health Sciences Authority approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in Singapore, the ...

December 14, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has granted an authorization 14 Dec 2020 under the Pandemic Special Access...

December 14, 2020 | Monday | News
CEPI and SK Bioscience to develop next generation COVID-19 vaccine

CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, has announced a collaboration with South Korea-based SK Bio...

December 14, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia secures 20 M extra Astra Zeneca vaccine doses

On the basis of scientific advice, the Australian Government has secured an additional 20 million doses of the promising...

December 11, 2020 | Friday | News
Sinovac receives product license for 23-valent pneumonia vaccine

Sinovac Biotech Ltd, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, has announced that the China National Me...

December 11, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore to contribute $5,000,000 to COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access AMC mechanism

Singapore, like any other country, understands that the successful development of safe and efficacious vaccines is ...

December 9, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Malaysia joins CEPI donating $3 M to advance vaccine R&D

Malaysia has announced funding of $3 million to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to help suppo...

December 9, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Sinovac secures $500M in funds for COVID-19 vaccine development

Sinovac Biotech Ltd, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, has announced that Sinovac Life Sciences...

December 8, 2020 | Tuesday | News
INOVIO expands global manufacturing consortium for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate

INOVIO, a biotechnology company focused on bringing to market precisely designed DNA medicines to treat and protect peop...

December 4, 2020 | Friday | News
EuBiologics partners with IVI for COVID-19 vaccine development

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and South Korean company EuBiologics exchanged an MOU to cooperate in the clin...

December 4, 2020 | Friday | News
Experts elaborate on Asia's confidence and challenges with COVID-19 vaccine

Vaccine confidence has never been more important, as the world waits for the first COVID-19 protection options to move t...

December 3, 2020 | Thursday | News
Pfizer and BioNTech achieve world first authorization for COVID-19 vaccine

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE have announced that the Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHR...

December 2, 2020 | Wednesday | News
BioNTech-Pfizer apply CMA for COVID-19 Vaccine to the EMA

BioNTech SE and Pfizer Inc. on 30 Nov 2020 have submitted a formal Application for Conditional Marketing ...

December 2, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Korea contributes $3M to CEPI to advance vaccine development

The government of the Republic of Korea (ROK) has decided to contribute $3 million in 2020 for the first time to the Coa...

November 30, 2020 | Monday | News
AstraZeneca vaccine meet primary efficacy endpoint in preventing COVID-19

Positive high-level results from an interim analysis of clinical trials of AZD1222 in the UK and Brazil showed the vacci...

November 27, 2020 | Friday | News
Korea inks MoU with Ecuador for global health R&D

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of Ecuador exchanged a memo...

November 26, 2020 | Thursday | News
Sputnik V vaccine single dose to be less than $10 at international markets

The cost of one dose of the Sputnik V vaccine for international markets will be less than $10. Sputnik V is a ...

November 25, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Korea pushes vaccine R&D for global health

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and the Vaccine Innovative Technology ALliance Korea (VITAL-Korea) agreed to j...

November 24, 2020 | Tuesday | News

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