News & Analysis on the Clinical Development and Manufacture of Large Molecule Drugs
Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has approved manufacture of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine by CSL – Seqirus: reducing the country's dependence on limited supply from abroad and allowing a wider vaccination campaign to begin.
CureVac is expanding its late-stage clinical trials for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate; while confirming it is on schedule to apply for formal market authorization in the EU in Q2 2021.
The RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, and India based, Virchow Biotech Private Limited, have today announced a partnership to produce and supply a minimum of 200 million doses of the Russia developed Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19.
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was 79% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19, according to the findings of the Phase 3 study in the US, Chile and Peru, says AstraZeneca.