I'm currently attending the World Vaccine Congress 2018 in Washington to hear the latest musing from the sector's thought leaders and also find out about the latest technologies that are being used in the production of vaccines globally.
Read the rest of this postThemis Bioscience GmbH, an Austrian based vaccine company, has secured a $37.5m agreement with CEPI to create new vaccines for the infectious diseases Lassa Fever and MERS-CoV.
Read the rest of this postOne year ago in September 2016 the UK's government innovation agency Innovate UK provided £1 million to help accelerate Themis' Zika candidate into the clinic. Now, a year on they are providing another £3 million for clinical trials to help propel the firm's Chikungunya vaccine forward.
Read the rest of this postThemis Bioscience begins testing of their Chikungunya vaccine in Puerto Rico phase II clinical study
Read the rest of this postRecently I've contributed a small part in Tatum Anderson's April 2017 article Public-Private Coalition's: High-Profile Delinkage Policy For Emerging Vaccines.
Read the rest of this postArticle titled The State of the Industry as a celebration of BioProcess International’s 15th year of publication
Read the rest of this postHow DOE was used to create a new formulation for a live attenuated viral vaccine
Read the rest of this postSome 65 years after the Chikungunya viral disease got it’s name, two different biotech firms have started their clinical trials.
Read the rest of this postTakeda has recently finished enrolling 20,100 children for their phase 3 dengue vaccine clinical study in 8 endemic countries after just seven months. The study, that was started back in September 2016, is a placebo controlled study covering two doses of the vaccine each three months apart in children aged from 4 to 16. The aim is to confirm if the vaccine can protect against any dengue serotype of varying severities regardless of previous exposure.
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