The European Medicines Agency today approved the first Omicron-adapted Covid-19 vaccines from drugmakers Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna to start a booster dose campaign this winter to ward off a possible new wave. The vaccines “target Omicron’s BA.1 subvariant plus the original strain” of the coronavirus, which emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in 2019, the […]
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Moderna v. Pfizer – BioNTech lawsuit over mRNA vaccine patent
The American Moderna is suing the also American Pfizer and the latter’s German partner, BioNTech, for violating technology patent laws regarding the mRNA platform, through which the two companies’ vaccine against Covid-19 was made. The suit is expected to be filed on Friday in a US court in Massachusetts and in a district court in […]
Commission – Moderna agreement on new timetables for the delivery of vaccines against the coronavirus
The European Commission and Moderna have reached a new agreement to better address member states’ needs for Covid-19 vaccines for the late summer and winter season. In this way, member states will have access to vaccines, including those adapted to the variants, once they are approved, at the time they are needed for their vaccination […]
Moderna is developing updated vaccines against the new subvariants of Omicron
The pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Moderna announced today that it is developing two updated vaccines against the Omicron variant of the coronavirus for the fall: one designed against the BA.1 subvariant and another against the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants. Vaccine makers including Moderna and Pfizer are developing updated vaccines against Omicron’s rapidly spreading BA.4 and […]
Problems continue for Moderna: “Its share” collapses
Moderna shares continued to fall until Friday, as experts questioned whether sales of the company’s coronavirus mRNA vaccine alone would help justify the company’s high valuation, intensifying a downturn that wiped out the 60% of the value of one of the top shares of last year and turned it into the worst performance of 2022. […]
The plans of the pharmacists in the fight against coronavirus for 2022
By Alex Knapp Last week saw the 40th annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, one of the biggest events of the year in the field of medicine. The Conference, which took place online this year, was attended by hundreds of companies in the industry, which presented their achievements in 2021 and what they expect for 2022. […]
Moderna: Combined coronavirus vaccine by autumn 2023
Moderna’s candidate vaccine specifically targeting the coronavirus mutant Omicron strain will enter clinical development in the coming weeks and the company estimates it will be able to share its data with regulators around March, it said Monday. the CEO of the American company, Stefan Banchel. “The vaccine is being completed… it should enter clinical development […]
Afeyian (Moderna): The coronavirus pandemic could become endemic in 2022
The coronavirus pandemic may begin to become endemic in 2022, but countries must remain vigilant as the Omicron variant continues to spread, according to Nubar Afegian, co-founder of US biotechnology company Moderna. But while some countries are slowly considering treating coronavirus as an endemic disease, such as the flu, World Health Organization officials say it […]
Moderna is working on developing a vaccine against Omicron – Seeing sales of $ 18.5 billion
LAST UPDATE: 15:17 Moderna CEO Stefan Bancell said the company is working to develop a special vaccine for the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, which will be available soon. In an interview with CNBC, he also said that Moderna will be able to deliver 2 to 3 billion booster doses of its Covid vaccine within […]
No – Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines are not gene therapies
By Joshua Cohen The development and approval of coronavirus mRNA vaccines has been a miracle. According to a recent study by the Commonwealth Fund, if it were not for vaccines, we would have an additional 1.1 million deaths from covid-19 in the US and another 10.3 million hospitalizations by last November. Vaccines have saved lives […]