Tag: manufacturing
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200M Covid-19 Vaccine Doses Donated to Int’l Effort
Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline are offering 200 million doses of their Covid-19 vaccine for a project devoted to making vaccines equitably available worldwide.
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Bayer Gains Gene Therapy Biotech in $4B Deal
Global drug maker Bayer AG is acquiring the company Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, developer of gene therapies to treat inherited disorders.
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Roche Gains Covid-19 Oral Drug Candidate
Global drug maker Roche Group is acquiring an experimental antiviral therapy for Covid-19 infections taken as a oral drug, rather than an infusion.
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Carb-X Funding Nanoscale Sponge to Treat Sepsis
A company developing tiny particles made of cellular material to soak-up toxins in the body received a $4 million award to advance its sepsis treatment.
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DoD Funding Mobile Vaccine/Therapy Manufacturing Lab
The U.S. Defense Department’s research agency is funding a prototype mobile lab to produce RNA-based vaccines and therapies in the field on demand.
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BARDA Funding Vaccine Patch Clinical Trial
The U.S. government’s medical preparedness agency is funding a clinical trial of a patch that dispenses vaccines with a much lower dose than syringes.
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Start-Up Developing Thin Films for Vaccine Delivery
A new enterprise is creating thin films for vaccines, including Covid-19, to make possible their mass production and distribution at room temperatures.
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DoD Funds Covid-19 G.I. Infection Therapy
A biotechnology company is developing biologic treatments for Covid-19 infections in the gastrointestinal tract and to block further disease transmission.
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Chip-Based RNA Biotech Raises $60M in Venture Funds
A company developing messenger RNA therapeutics on demand from single-use biochips is raising $60 million in its second venture funding round.
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DoD Funding Variable Covid-19 Vaccine Technology
The U.S. Department of Defense is funding work on a Covid-19 vaccine platform that can adjust its formula to protect against future mutations in the virus.