With Valneva SE’s accelerated approval from the U.S. FDA for chikungunya vaccine Ixchiq, attention turned to the February 2024 meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which will vote on the product. A single-dose, live-attenuated vaccine, Ixchiq is designed to prevent disease caused by the virus in people 18 and older who are at increased risk of exposure to the bug.
South Korea may soon gain its first domestically developed anthrax vaccine by GC Biopharma Corp., with the Korean biotech having filed Nov. 1 with the MFDS for approval of its novel recombinant protein anthrax vaccine called GC-1109.
Australia has a lot to celebrate when it comes to vaccines. The University of Queensland is where Ian Frazer invented the human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil, and now Australia is projected to be the first in the word to eliminate cervical cancer, Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles said during the Ausbiotech 2023 conference held Nov. 1-3 in Brisbane, Australia.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is set to conduct a phase I trial with Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp.’s TNX-1800 (recombinant horsepox virus, live vaccine), a vaccine candidate to protect against COVID-19.
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the University of Oxford have launched a new project to initiate early development of prototype vaccines against the Junín virus, selected as an exemplar of the Arenavirus family which is responsible for multiple deadly hemorrhagic fevers with epidemic and pandemic potential.
Australia has a lot to celebrate when it comes to vaccines. The University of Queensland is where Ian Frazer invented the human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil, and now Australia is projected to be the first in the word to eliminate cervical cancer, Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles said during the Ausbiotech 2023 conference held Nov. 1-3 in Brisbane, Australia.
VBI Vaccines Inc. has announced the development of its next-generation mRNA-launched enveloped virus-like particle (eVLP) technology, which expands on the company's current proprietary eVLP technology by coding the particles in messenger RNA (mRNA).
Codagenix Inc. announced that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), through the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command and the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, has awarded the company $5.88 million to advance the development of its Codavax-Denv, a tetravalent live attenuated dengue vaccine program.
Appili Therapeutics Inc. has secured a commitment for the second stage of funding for ATI-1701 from the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA), who is working in partnership with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the funding agency.
The U.S. FDA cleared Pfizer Inc.’s Penbraya (meningococcal groups A, B, C, W and Y vaccine), the first pentavalent shot designed to provide coverage against the most common serogroups causing meningococcal disease in adolescents and young adults through age 25.