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Prefilled syringes and vaccines: Optimising parenteral packaging for the next pandemic

Pharmaceutical Technology

When it comes to vaccines and other high-value biologics, it is essential that effective formulations go hand in hand with safe delivery. An example is the ability of a patient suffering from venous thrombosis to perform their own injections of heparin – an anticoagulant often packaged in a prefilled syringe.

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Biovac and IVI enter deal to develop oral cholera vaccine

Pharmaceutical Technology

South African bio-pharmaceutical firm Biovac and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in South Korea have signed a licencing and technology transfer agreement for developing and manufacturing an oral cholera vaccine (OCV).

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Merck and Orna partner for RNA technology-based vaccines and therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

Merck (MSD outside North America) has entered a partnership agreement with Orna Therapeutics for discovering, developing and marketing various programmes based on next-generation RNA technology. These programmes will include therapies and vaccines in infectious disease and oncology areas.

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Global Pharmaceutical Packaging Equipment Market 2020-2027: Unprecedented Global Push to Expedite COVID-19 Vaccine Development to Spur Demand – ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Global Pharmaceutical Packaging Equipment Market 2020-2027: Unprecedented Global Push to Expedite COVID-19 Vaccine Development to Spur Demand – ResearchAndMarkets.com Global Pharmaceutical Packaging Equipment Market 2020-2027: Unprecedented Global Push to Expedite COVID-19 Vaccine Development to Spur Demand – ResearchAndMarkets.com DUBLIN–(BUSINESS (..)

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UK Chancellor trumpets £650m AstraZeneca investment

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A £650 million investment package by AstraZeneca in the UK has been held up by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt as a “vote of confidence” in the country’s life sciences sector.

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Recipharm leverages BSF capabilities at French site, secures vaccine packaging deal

BioPharma Reporter

Contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), Recipharm, says it has inked a deal with a top 10 big pharma company to support vaccine manufacturing from its facility in Kaysersberg, France.

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Covid-19 Omicron boosters will reinvigorate injectables manufacturing

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pfizer (New York, New York) and Moderna’s (Cambridge, Massachusetts) Omicron-specific Covid-19 vaccines are in late-stage development, have demonstrated good efficacy against the variant and will likely be available to the public later this year to provide an additional booster and increase demand for injectable manufacturing.