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Moderna signs contract to supply Covid-19 booster vaccines to the US

Pharmaceutical Technology

Moderna has entered a new supply contract with the US Government to deliver 66 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine booster candidate, mRNA-1273.222. The contract comprises a $1.74bn award to produce and supply these vaccine doses and options to further procure up to 234 million additional doses of the company’s booster candidates.

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FDA revokes EUAs of Pfizer/BioNTech’s and Moderna’s original Covid-19 vaccines

Pharmaceutical Technology

4/5 Covid-19 messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines. The expanded EUAs state that these current bivalent vaccines are now to be used for all primary and booster doses administered to individuals ages six months of age and older. 1 vaccines by both companies were revoked by the FDA in August 2022, after the BA.5

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Intravacc gets NIAID contract for intranasal gonorrhoea vaccine development

Pharmaceutical Technology

from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) unit National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to develop a prophylactic intranasal vaccine against Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG). Leveraging its outer membrane vesicles (OMV) platform technology, Intravacc will develop the vaccine.

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US FDA grants breakthrough therapy designation for Moderna’s RSV vaccine

Pharmaceutical Technology

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted breakthrough therapy designation for Moderna ’s investigational mRNA vaccine candidate, mRNA-1345, for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in adult patients. It contains a single mRNA sequence encoding for a stabilised prefusion F glycoprotein. The findings showed 83.7%

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Polio cases derived from new oral vaccine reported for first time

STAT News

Experts have long understood that a new polio vaccine developed to try to minimize the risks associated with the oral polio vaccine made by Albert Sabin might also cause the problem it was created to sidestep. The “2” signals the vaccine targets type 2 polioviruses.) Read the rest…

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FDA clears Pfizer’s PREVNAR 20 vaccine for IPD prevention

Pharmaceutical Technology

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Pfizer’s 20-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, PREVNAR 20 , to prevent invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in infants and children aged six weeks to 17 years. PREVNAR 20 has been developed on the basis of Pfizer’s approved PREVNAR 13 vaccine.

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Leading innovators in coronavirus vaccine components

Pharmaceutical Technology

In the last three years alone, there have been over 633,000 patents filed and granted in the pharmaceutical industry, according to GlobalData’s report on Innovation in Pharmaceuticals: Coronavirus vaccine components. The vaccine also contains other inactive ingredients such as cholesterol.