Seattle institute lands $18m funding to develop RNA vaccine for chikungunya
Pharmaceutical Technology
AUGUST 3, 2023
AAHI is developing a novel RNA vaccine that overcomes manufacturing and storage limitations to increase accessibility.
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Pharmaceutical Technology
AUGUST 3, 2023
AAHI is developing a novel RNA vaccine that overcomes manufacturing and storage limitations to increase accessibility.
Pharmaceutical Technology
MAY 11, 2023
Results published in Nature for a personalised pancreatic cancer vaccine that uses neoantigens from patients’ tumours have lent further support to early positive signals. The vaccine, developed by BioNTech, led to half of the patients with pancreatic cancer in the Phase I trial remaining cancer-free 18 months later.
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Pharmaceutical Technology
MAY 28, 2024
Biomanufacturers using self-amplifying RNA, or saRNA, could enjoy significant advantages
Pharmaceutical Technology
AUGUST 17, 2022
Merck (MSD outside North America) has entered a partnership agreement with Orna Therapeutics for discovering, developing and marketing various programmes based on next-generation RNA technology. These programmes will include therapies and vaccines in infectious disease and oncology areas.
Pharmaceutical Technology
MAY 23, 2023
ReNAgade Therapeutics has burst onto the RNA technology scene by announcing a $300m financing round. With its delivery system, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotech says it aims to “address major limitations in RNA therapeutics by enabling the delivery of RNA medicines to previously inaccessible tissues and cells in the body.”
Bio Pharma Dive
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
The pharma and partner BioNTech have kicked off the first human trial of a messenger RNA shot for shingles, believing there’s room to clear the high bar set by GSK’s rival vaccine.
Pharmaceutical Technology
MARCH 1, 2023
The Covid-19 pandemic led to massive developments and scientific advances within the field of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines. Pfizer /BioNTech and Moderna’s mRNA-based vaccines were the first to receive emergency use authorisation (EUA) out of all other Covid-19 vaccines under development in late 2020.
Pharmaceutical Technology
JUNE 1, 2023
A new intracellular drug delivery centre will be established in the UK to support potential ribonucleic acid (RNA) vaccines and therapeutics , as well as the development of innovative drug delivery technologies. It will focus on studying and developing new lipid nanoparticle (LNP) formulations for the delivery of RNA medicine.
Pharmaceutical Technology
MAY 15, 2024
CircRNA is still in early days of development, but could be in trials as vaccines, therapeutics and biomarkers in the next few years.
Pharmaceutical Technology
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
While things may have slowed down a little since the rapid approvals of the COVID-19 vaccines, the excitement around RNA-LNP is still going strong.
Pharmaceutical Technology
MARCH 28, 2023
Following on from its Covid-19 vaccine programmes, BioNTech has set its sights on a range of infectious diseases for vaccine development. The company saw major successes with its Covid-19 vaccine, developed in collaboration with Pfizer. In response to the lower vaccine sales forecasts, BioNTech shares opened at 3.9%
Bio Pharma Dive
AUGUST 26, 2022
The biotech claims its rivals’ vaccine Comirnaty, one of the world’s top-selling pharmaceutical products, infringes on two patents covering its messenger RNA technology.
Pharmaceutical Technology
APRIL 16, 2024
Sanofi has signed an agreement with IDT Australia for preclinical formulation development of its messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines.
Bio Pharma Dive
AUGUST 22, 2024
The approval of both reformulated messenger RNA vaccines, which are designed to target the KP.2 2 virus strain, comes just ahead of the fall and winter seasons.
Pharmaceutical Technology
APRIL 27, 2023
Orbital Therapeutics has raised $270m in a Series A round led by ARCH Venture Partners to advance a portfolio of programmable RNA therapeutics. Orbital will use the new funding to increase the application of RNA-based medicines for use in the fields of new vaccines, immunomodulation and protein replacement.
pharmaphorum
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Japan’s medicines regulator has approved the first vaccine based on self-assembling RNA, a spin on the mRNA technology used in current shots, which is designed to deliver greater efficacy with a lower dose.
Pharmaceutical Technology
DECEMBER 19, 2023
BioNTech has inaugurated a new messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine manufacturing facility in Kigali, Rwanda, which will have BioNTainers.
pharmaphorum
MAY 2, 2024
A personalised vaccine for the aggressive brain cancer glioblastoma developed has shown encouraging signs of efficacy in its first human trial.
Bio Pharma Dive
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Both companies believe the messenger RNA technology they're using in their coronavirus vaccines could be applied to create a better flu shot.
Roots Analysis
OCTOBER 30, 2023
In the past few years, Next Generation RNA therapeutics have emerged as one of the key therapeutic modalities in the modern healthcare industry. These RNA based therapeutics play a crucial role in protein production and regulation of gene functions.
Roots Analysis
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
RNA-based therapeutics have completely revolutionized the healthcare segment, greatly influencing the study and treatment of human diseases by conferring precise targeting ability to therapeutic modalities. The below figure presents the distribution of next generation RNA-based therapeutics and RNA-based vaccines, based on type of molecule.
Pharmaceutical Technology
AUGUST 1, 2022
GreenLight Biosciences has entered a partnership with the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the development of Covid-19 vaccines, which offer broader protection against new variants and with durable effects. They intend to develop vaccines that provide lasting immune responses compared to existing vaccines.
Bio Pharma Dive
AUGUST 16, 2022
The pharmaceutical company has formed an alliance with Orna and invested $100 million in its Series B round, hoping the young biotech’s approach could lead to multiple new vaccines and drugs.
AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog
OCTOBER 16, 2022
The husband-and-wife team who co-founded BioNTech, the biotechnology company that partnered with Pfizer to develop an effective messenger-RNA (mRNA) shot against COVID-19, has predicted that a cancer vaccine could be widely available within the next decade.
pharmaphorum
AUGUST 16, 2022
Merck & Co has ramped up its involvement in the RNA category, partnering with US biotech Orna Therapeutics in a deal valued at up to $3.5 billion, consummating a relationship that first started in 2018 and spanned a range of mRNA-based vaccines for infectious diseases. billion, including $150 million upfront.
Pharmaceutical Technology
AUGUST 1, 2022
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.
BioSpace
AUGUST 4, 2021
RNA caught the public’s imagination in the form of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19, but RNA can be used in other ways, too, to make therapeutic proteins.
Pharmaceutical Technology
OCTOBER 14, 2022
German pharmaceutical firm Merck has extended its partnership with Moderna to jointly develop and sell mRNA-4157/V940, an investigational personalised cancer vaccine (PCV). In 2016, the companies entered a strategic partnership to develop novel messenger RNA (mRNA) based PCVs.
Bio Pharma Dive
MAY 19, 2023
The biotech, best known for its vaccine research, said its clinical trial is the first to report results of a messenger RNA therapeutic designed for intracellular protein replacement.
XTalks
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Pfizer released a new respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine TV commercial, titled “Your Moments Are Worth Protecting: Celebration” as part of its ongoing campaign to raise awareness about the importance of vaccination against RSV. Moderna entered the RSV vaccine arena this year with the very first mRNA-based RSV vaccine.
World of DTC Marketing
DECEMBER 29, 2020
OBSERVATION: Biologics can take a long time to develop but COVID vaccines have been in development for almost 50 years and novel approaches were used to develop these vaccines. Vaccines typically take 10 to 15 years to develop, test and release to the public. The coronavirus vaccines, however, took less than a year.
pharmaphorum
JANUARY 13, 2023
Bringing Next Generation RNA Therapies to Patients Faster. The post 2nd Next Generation RNA Therapeutics Summit appeared first on. Explore the full event guide here – [link].
Bio Pharma Dive
AUGUST 22, 2022
The decision will make a third vaccine available for children 12 to 17 years old in the U.S., giving them an option that doesn’t use the messenger RNA technology of shots by Pfizer and Moderna.
Pharmaceutical Technology
AUGUST 2, 2022
Samsung Biologics and GreenLight Biosciences have completed the initial commercial-scale engineering run for their messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) Covid-19 vaccine under their manufacturing collaboration. Following the demonstration at Samsung, the clinical trial of GreenLight’s Covid-19 booster vaccine is anticipated to commence this year.
JAMA Internal Medicine
OCTOBER 3, 2021
Several recent case series have described acute myocarditis after COVID-19 messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccination. While the cardiac complications of vaccines are important, discussion has been limited by small sample sizes that lack gender and racial and ethnic diversity. 414 fully vaccinated individuals). women and 31.2%
XTalks
MARCH 21, 2022
Credited as a pioneering RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics company, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals is taking Pfizer and Moderna to court, claiming that the companies’ use of the lipid nanoparticle (LNP)-based RNA delivery technology in their mRNA COVID-19 vaccines infringes on a patented technology.
Pharmaceutical Technology
JULY 15, 2022
Health Canada has granted approval for the usage of Moderna’s messenger RNA (mRNA) Covid-19 vaccine, Spikevax, in a 25µg two-dose regimen for active immunisation to prevent Covid-19 in children aged six months to five years. So far, children aged below five years were not eligible to receive the Covid-19 vaccine in Canada.
BioPharma Reporter
DECEMBER 6, 2021
Australiaâs Noxopharm has in-licensed novel RNA tech developed by Hudson Institute of Medical Research: focusing on RNA drug discovery and mRNA vaccine manufacture via Noxopharmâs subsidiary Pharmorage.
Pharmaceutical Technology
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
Only a few weeks into the new year, the prospect of getting a successful advanced HIV vaccine shrank after the discontinuation of yet another late-stage trial. On January 18, Janssen, a Johnson & Johnson (J&J) subsidiary, stated that its vaccine was not effective in preventing HIV infections.
Scienmag
JULY 6, 2022
Army scientists and industry partners were among the first to demonstrate that messenger RNA (mRNA)—the technology recently used in COVID-19 vaccines and others—could also be used to develop treatments for infectious diseases. Credit: Study: USAMRIID / […].
STAT News
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
This story has been adapted from the STAT Report “The future of messenger RNA: Covid-19 vaccines are just the beginning.” Read the rest…
pharmaphorum
OCTOBER 18, 2021
SMi Group’s 13th Annual Conference: RNA Therapeutics 2022. Bolstering the latest advances and opportunities in RNA-based medicine. BENEFITS OF ATTENDING: •Explore how mRNA vaccines have led the way in the response against COVID-19 and key takeaways for the industry. Head of RNA Biology. 9th – 10th February 2022.
XTalks
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
With RNA therapies being the next hot thing in genetic medicine, Eli Lilly is joining the RNA editing race by partnering with Netherlands-based ProQR Therapeutics NV (Nasdaq: PRQR), a biotech company developing RNA-based therapies for rare genetic diseases with a focus on blinding disorders of the retina.
XTalks
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
Perhaps popularized by the COVID-19 vaccines, RNA-based technologies now have the potential to become the next best pesticide to combat crop pests, like insects and fungal pathogens. Over the last year, researchers have been studying the effectiveness of RNA-based pesticides, and there are already a handful of sprays in the works.
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