Moderna Inc. and Covaxx Inc. are readying for delivery more than 220 million doses of their respective COVID-19 vaccines to Europe and emerging countries in newly cut deals. Moderna, of Cambridge, Mass., said it granted an option to the European Commission to buy up to 80 million additional doses of mRNA-1273 and is set to manufacture 500 million to 1 billion doses globally in 2021. The company said the vaccine, if approved, will ship to the EU beginning in December. The company’s shares (NASDAQ:MRNA) had a solid day Nov. 25, with shares closing 10.78% upward at $109.18.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Acarix, Applied DNA, Co-Diagnostics, Corticometrics, Kantaro, Rapidrona.
CAJICA, Colombia – Cuba’s Finlay Institute of Vaccines is moving forward with Soberana 2, a domestically developed conjugate vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. This is the second vaccine under development in the small country of 12 million people.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting biopharma, including: The other shoe drops for former Insys CEO; NICE gives nod to new myeloma regimen; MHRA prepares for January; FDA guidances finalized.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Altimmune, Basilea, Bio-Thera, Janssen, Liquidia, Pfizer, Polaryx, Reata, Revance, Rhovac, Sirtex.
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Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Aim, Ascentage, Celltrion, Equillium, Inmed, Karyopharm, Medicinova, Urovant.
LONDON – Efficacy data for Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine held steady at 91.4% in the second interim analysis, conducted after 39 confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection in 18,794 volunteers, seven days after they received the second dose.