Johnson and Johnson (J&J) recently granted permission to Stop TB Partnership to distribute its generic TB drug bedaquiline (SIRTURO) to the majority of low- and middle-income countries.
A Phase 1 trial found that a freeze-dried, temperature-stable experimental tuberculosis vaccine was safe, well-tolerated and elicited robust antigen-specific serum antibody and Th1-type cellular immune responses.
BioNTech is set to take several mRNA candidates into clinical trials over the coming months: including vaccines for shingles, malaria and tuberculosis.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute is conducting a tuberculosis epidemiology study: setting the stage for a Phase 3 efficacy trial for its investigational tuberculosis vaccine.
The COVID-19 pandemic has reversed years of global progress in tackling tuberculosis and - for the first time in over a decade - TB deaths have increased. Research breakthroughs – such as new vaccines – are needed to rapidly reduce the number of new cases...
Vaccine developer Aeras and CMO (contract manufacturing organization) IDT Biologika have formed a strategic partnership that includes the acquisition of Aeras's Biopharmaceutical Development Center (BDC) manufacturing facility by IDT.
The WHO has yet to decide how to investigate if barriers to competition are preventing vaccine price cuts after World Health Assembly members committed to probe the jabs industry.
With the goal of developing a thermostable tuberculosis vaccine, IDRI (Infectious Disease Research Institute) was awarded a contract from the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases that could be worth up to $11.9m.
Specialty vaccine company PaxVax has acquired the oral typhoid vaccine Vivotif from Crucell, as well as its manufacturing facility in Thörishaus, Switzerland. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
