Vaccine Development and Manufacturing

Through the adoption of single-use technology, drug manufacturers have been able to adapt to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Full approval of COVID-19 vaccines may increase public confidence, but better coordination in development and review is needed.

Emergent BioSolutions is being allowed to restart manufacturing operations for the J&J COVID-19 vaccine at its Bayview, Baltimore, Md., facility.

EMA's CHMP has taken the decision to start a rolling review of Vidprevtyn—Sanofi Pasteur’s COVID-19 vaccine.

Merck announced that FDA approved Vaxneuvance for active immunization for the prevention of invasive pneumococcal disease.

Meissa Vaccines’s MV-014-212, an intranasal recombinant live attenuated COVID-19 vaccine, induced mucosal and systemic antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 and two variants of concern.

The EMA’s CHMP has adopted a positive opinion recommending marketing authorization for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine (Spikevax) to include adolescents 12 years of age and older.

Sinovac Biotech’s Eupolio vaccine, a Sabin inactivated poliovirus vaccine (sIPV), has gained marketing authorization in China.

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE announced the signing of a letter of intent with The Biovac Institute Ltd to manufacture the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for distribution within the African Union.

Pall has secured a manufacturing contract with Exothera for the suspension-based manufacture of gene therapies and viral vector-based vaccines.

MTBVAC has the potential to be used as an alternative to BCG vaccination in infants and for prevention of TB disease in adolescents and adults.

ImmunityBio will proceed with a Phase I/II/III trial in South Africa of their dual-antigen T-cell vaccine as a boost in participants who were previously vaccinated against COVID-19.

The US federal government awarded new funding to the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals, including funding under the American Rescue Plan that will be used to advance vaccine manufacturing.

Univercells Technologies and VectorBuilder to produce custom viral vectors for cell and gene therapies as well as vaccine applications.

The approved changes to the API manufacturing plant in Leiden, the Netherlands will enable an increase in API capacity.

The first participants, both previously vaccinated and unvaccinated, receive AstraZeneca’s new COVID-19 variant vaccine AZD2816.

CMOs and CDMOs adjust business processes as demand for COVID-19 treatments and non-pandemic related therapies puts pressure on the bio/pharma industry.

Reports of myocarditis and pericarditis following Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccinations prompts warnings.

The European Commission has purchased an additional 150 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for delivery in 2022.

EMA's recent positive opinion for a recombinant vaccine for rabbits developed using Algenex’s proprietary and patent protected Baculovirus vector-mediated expression platform, CrisBio, should push the full commercialization of the platform forward.

CureVac’s first-generation COVID-19 vaccine candidate, CvnCoV, did not meet efficacy targets in a second interim analysis.

The US government will invest $3 billion from the American Rescue Plan into a COVID-19 antiviral development strategy.

Recent analysis has shown that two doses of COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective against hospitalization as a result of infection with the Delta variant of COVID-19.

Sanofi’s new Pennsylvania facility expands production of Fluzone High-Dose Quadrivalent flu vaccine.

Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine is 90.4% effective and maintains efficacy when administered with an influenza vaccine.