Coronavirus vaccine trial : Chinese biopharma company Sinovac Biotech has secured approval to carry out a human clinical trial on an inactivated COVID-19 vaccine candidate, which it had been developing since late January. The company said that its scientists have quickly wrapped up comprehensive preclinical studies in collaboration with some of the top academic research […]
ImmunoPrecise Antibodies has launched a coronavirus vaccine development program to address the new coronavirus originating in Wuhan, China apart from developing coronavirus-neutralizing antibodies for addressing prophylactic and therapeutic measures to counter the virus and its associated disease, COVID-19. So far, COVID-19 has claimed the lives of nearly 1,875 people, while infecting more than 74,000 across […]
Chinese CDMO WuXi Vaccines has signed a 20-year contract worth around $3bn with an undisclosed vaccine company to use a dedicated vaccine manufacturing facility in Ireland to supply commercial vaccine products manufactured from it for the global market. WuXi Vaccines, which is a joint venture between WuXi Biologics and Shanghai Hile Bio-technology, had announced an […]
German pharma giant Boehringer Ingelheim has wrapped up the $76 million expansion of its pets vaccines production facility at Athens in Georgia, US. The investment doubles the capacity of Boehringer Ingelheim to produce vaccines for pets in the US and across the world two times. Expansion of the pets vaccines production plant was announced in […]
Boehringer Ingelheim acquisition of AMAL Therapeutics : German pharma company Boehringer Ingelheim has acquired Swiss biotech company AMAL Therapeutics for up to EUR325 million, as per the latest pharma acquisition news. AMAL Therapeutics, which was spun out from the University of Geneva in 2012, is focused on cancer immunotherapy and is engaged in advancing therapeutic […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced a pivotal step in global health: the initiation of the world’s first malaria vaccine trials in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi next year. This groundbreaking trial aims to combat one of the world’s most severe health challenges, particularly affecting young children at high risk of death. Pioneering Development in […]
Sun Pharma, an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company, has announced a collaboration with the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) to develop a new dengue vaccine aimed at being safer, more effective, and more affordable than existing vaccines. This initiative marks the second collaboration between Sun Pharma and ICGEB, building on their earlier partnership […]