Absci, a leader in AI drug creation, and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Vaccine research is still quite ‘empirical’ and there is a long way until it is turned into a rational, predictable modality, suggests director at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
As the US faces a measles outbreak, and bills removing rights to exempt from vaccination are debated, vaccine manufacturers stress the need to educate the public.
Vector-based vaccine tech firm Vaccitech has secured £20m ($27.1m) in venture capital with investors Google Ventures, Sequoia China, Neptune Ventures and Oxford Sciences Innovation.
Infectious disease vaccines for pregnant women will save countless infants, but companies need to clear practical and ethical concerns for licensure, says the US FDA.
Speculation GSK's meningitis B vaccine Bexsero will soon be available on the UK National Health Serivice will be welcomed by campaigners, protein supplier Sandoz and its parent company, Novartis.
The anti-abortion group that blames Merck & Co for the recent US measles outbreak says it would not judge parents who have children vaccinated with MMR II for the good of society.
Manufacturers developing Ebola vaccines will be immune from lawsuits following a decision by US HHS (Health and Human Services) to issue a declaration on the matter.
Dr Rajashekar Reddy, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, India presided over the inauguration ceremony for Biological E’s new INR3bn ($61m) vaccine and biopharmaceuticals manufacturing campus.
