Valneva is advancing toward U.S. FDA accelerated approval of the France-based biologics company’s VLA1553 after the specialty vaccine was shown to be safe and effective against mosquito-transmitted chikungunya disease, in a published analysis of Phase III results.
Moderna plots vaccines against 15 pathogens with future pandemic potential
Business, Chikungunya virus, Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), Dengue Fever, Ebola, HIV Vaccines, Kenya, Low-Income Countries, Malaria, Marburg Virus, MERS, Middle-Income Countries, Moderna, Mosquito-Borne Infections, National Institutes of Health, Pandemics, Patents, Pathogens, R&D, Vaccines, Viral InfectionsModerna Inc. plans to develop and begin testing vaccines targeting 15 of the world’s most worrisome pathogens by 2025 and will permanently waive the company’s COVID-19 vaccine patents for shots intended for certain low-income and middle-income countries.
French specialty vaccine maker Valneva shared positive topline results from ongoing trials for a potential single-shot vaccine against chikungunya.
After months of bad news regarding Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing issues, Emergent BioSolutions posted positive two-year data related to the company’s investigational chikungunya virus virus-like particle (CHIKV VLP) vaccine candidate.