Transporting a COVID-19 vaccine to 7.8 billion people around the world would fill 8,000 jumbo jets – illustrating the enormity of the distribution challenge. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) warns of potential capacity constraints,...
The European Commission has concluded exploratory talks with BioNTech-Pfizer to purchase up to 300 million doses of a potential vaccine against COVID-19.
Two US government agencies are investigating whether Moderna Therapeutics, the biotech company behind one of the leading Covid-19 vaccine candidates, was upfront about government funding in its filed or awarded patents, as required by federal law.
AstraZeneca has paused vaccination in all of its Oxford COVID-19 vaccine candidate trials globally, because of a potentially unexplained illness in one of the trials.
The chief executives of nine leading biopharma companies have moved to reassure the public over the development and testing procedures for Covid-19 vaccines.
AbbVie has boosted its immunotherapy pipeline in a global licensing deal with Chinese biotech, I-Mab, for its anti-CD47 monoclonal antibody, lemzoparlimab.
AskBio, which develops adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapies for genetic disorders, has won an R&D grant valued at £2m (around US$2.7m) from Scottish Enterprise.
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform plans to subpoena AbbVie over pricing of Humira and Imbruvica, alleging the company repeatedly failed to comply with requests.
