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Afrigen to collaborate with NIAID on mRNA vaccine research
The research collaboration will enable the sharing of technical skills and materials to expedite Afrigen’s goal of mRNA vaccine production.
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CEPI provides $30m to advance novel coronavirus vaccine
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) has partnered with a consortium of research and technological institutions to fund the development of a novel vaccine to provide protection against COVID-19, as well other SARS-like Betacoronaviruses.
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Anatomy of a ‘correlate of protection’ for T-cell vaccines
The use of proprietary vaccine constructs to prime naive CD8+ T-cells via skin dendritic cells and thus enable induction of targeted cellular immunity, establishing tissue-resident CD8+ T-memory cells, is a new vaccination strategy being explored at Emergex Vaccines. Here, Professor Thomas Rademacher, Emeritus Professor of Molecular Medicine – UCL and…
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Pharmaceutical C-suite update
With two knighthoods in the last month, here EPR discusses five developments in the drug development community’s C-suite.
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Bavarian Nordic to supply EU Member States with monkeypox vaccine
Bavarian Nordic has announced it will supply 110,000 doses of its MVA-BN smallpox/monkeypox vaccine to the European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) over the coming months.
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Individualised mRNA vaccine shows promise in pancreatic cancer patients
Phase I study shows that mRNA-based individualised neoantigen specific immunotherapy (iNeST) vaccines can be used to stimulate T cells to recognise neoantigens in pancreatic cancer patients.
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GSK to acquire Affinivax for MAPS vaccine platform
GSK will pay up to $3.3 billion to acquire Affinivax, gaining access to its Multiple Antigen Presenting System (MAPS) technology and pneumococcal vaccine candidates.
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EPR Podcast Episode 11 – Developing vaccine technologies – Giulia Giordano and Mark Doherty, GSK
Why is vaccine manufacturing becoming more biological? How could Generalized Modules for Membrane Antigens (GMMA) enhance vaccinology? What developments have there been in adjuvant systems? Discover all this and more in this podcast with GSK experts.
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WEVEE vaccine shows promise against trio of rare but deadly viruses
Phase I trial data suggests that a vaccine targeting three mosquito-borne encephalitis viruses is safe and can elicit an immune response.
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The future of vaccine research and learning the lessons of COVID-19
Dr Owen Seddon, Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology at University Hospital of Wales, explains how successes in the development of the coronavirus vaccine must be used in the fight against other vaccine preventable disease.
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Left-handed gold nanoparticles improve vaccine efficacy by more than 25 percent, finds study
The results of a recent international study suggest that left-handed gold nanoparticles can increase vaccine effectiveness by 25 percent, providing useful adjuvant capabilities.
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Designed for success – new SNA vaccine proves highly effective in mice
A team of scientists has developed a spherical nucleic acid (SNA) vaccine, which has demonstrated high efficacy as a COVID-19 therapy, as well as an anti-cancer treatment in rodents.
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Moderna launches two new mRNA vaccine programmes
The new mRNA vaccine programmes are aimed at the major causative agents of respiratory tract infections, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza and coronaviruses.
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Intravacc publishes GMP vaccine candidate manufacturing process
A new paper details the GMP manufacturing and formulation process for a semi-synthetic Shigella glycoconjugate vaccine candidate from Institut Pasteur.
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mRNA vaccine candidates for HIV enter Phase I trial
Will mRNA vaccines one day protect against HIV? Three investigational mRNA vaccines, all designed to combat HIV, have entered Phase I testing.
