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UK MHRA grants authorisation for Moderna’s Covid-19 booster vaccine

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The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has granted conditional authorisation for Moderna ’s Covid-19 booster vaccine, mRNA-1273.214 (Spikevax Bivalent Original/Omicron), for use in adults aged 18 years and above. It comprises mRNA-1273 (Spikevax) and a vaccine candidate that acts on the SARS-CoV-2 virus’ BA.1

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Intravacc gets NIAID contract for intranasal gonorrhoea vaccine development

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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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Leading innovators in coronavirus vaccine components

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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.

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As gonorrhoea threat grows, Intravacc gets $14m for vaccine hunt

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million grant by the US government to develop an intranasal vaccine for gonorrhoea, a sexually-transmitted infection that is on the rise around the world. million in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to further develop a prophylactic vaccine based on its proprietary outer membrane vesicles (OMV) platform technology.

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EU places firm order for AZ/Oxford Uni’s ChAdOx1 COVID-19 vaccine

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The European Commission has placed its first advance order for a coronavirus vaccine, snapping up 300 million doses of AstraZeneca’s ChAdOx1 candidate developed by the University of Oxford, with an option on another 100 million. The EU says its advance purchase order will finance part of the upfront costs of developing the vaccine.

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Moderna Reveals Positive Results for its mRNA Influenza Vaccine

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Moderna revealed the first interim results from a small, Phase I study of its mRNA-based influenza vaccine, which showed that the vaccine had no significant safety concerns and elicited immune responses against four strains of the influenza virus. First Trial Results for First mRNA Influenza Vaccine.

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Experimental COVID-19 vaccine offers long-term protection against severe disease

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In 2021, a group of scientists led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian reported that the Moderna mRNA vaccine and a protein-based vaccine candidate containing an adjuvant, a substance that enhances immune responses, elicited durable neutralizing antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 (..)

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