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BARDA awards contract for Sabin’s Ebola Sudan and Marburg virus vaccines

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The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has awarded a multi-year contract to the Sabin Vaccine Institute for developing and producing single-dose vaccine candidates for Ebola Sudan and Marburg virus diseases. Currently, there are no licensed vaccines against these viruses.

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India’s CDSCO approves Bharat Biotech’s intra-nasal vaccine for Covid-19

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India’s Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has granted approval for Bharat Biotech’s BBV154 vaccine for treating Covid-19. BBV154 is claimed to be the first intra-nasal vaccine for Covid-19 in the world.

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Meningitis vaccine comes to the forefront with impressive study results

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A new vaccine developed by the Serum Institute of India to fight meningococcal disease could help eliminate meningitis across Africa. The results from a trial, published in The New England Journal of Medicine , found the vaccine was associated with a strong immune response and good safety profile. for serogroup W to 20.5

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Oral COVID-19 vaccine beckons, as ImmunityBio licenses iosBio tech

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ImmunityBio has licensed technology underpinning a COVID-19 vaccine that could be administered orally rather than by injection from UK biotech iosBio. One of the primary advantages of this approach is that the oral vaccine capsules are stable at room temperature, which means they do not require cold chain storage.

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South Korea authorises Novavax Covid-19 vaccine as booster dose

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The Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (KMFDS) has granted expanded approval to Novavax partner SK bioscience for the Covid-19 vaccine, Nuvaxovid (NVX-CoV2373), for use as a booster dose in adults aged 18 and above. Nuvaxovid is a protein-based vaccine created from the genetic sequence of the initial SARS-CoV-2 virus strain.

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FDA accepts to review ImmunityBio’s BLA for bladder cancer treatment

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has acc epted to review ImmunityBio’s Biologics License Application (BLA) for N-803 to treat Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-unresponsive non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) carcinoma in situ (CIS) patients with or without Ta or T1 disease.

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STAT+: Merck pays $250 million to license a Moderna skin-cancer vaccine candidate

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Merck on Wednesday agreed to extend an ongoing collaboration with Moderna to develop a personalized vaccine for the treatment of patients with skin cancer. Moderna is getting $250 million from Merck to secure opt-in rights to the cancer vaccine candidate, called mRNA-4157.