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Brazil: untapped market for big pharma manufacturing

Pharmaceutical Technology

International companies investing in the emerging market of Brazilian pharmaceutical manufacturing will see a higher return on investment than from developed market equivalents, if they choose to compete with local manufacturers to supply Brazil’s growing market and the greater South American region.

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EC grants marketing authorisation for GSK’s RSV vaccine Arexvy

Pharmaceutical Technology

The European Commission (EC) has granted marketing authorisation for GSK’s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine, Arexvy, for adults aged 60 years and above. The vaccine is indicated for active immunisation to prevent RSV-related lower respiratory tract disease (LRTD) in older adults.

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Dyadic expands Covid-19 licence with Rubic to bolster vaccine production in Africa

Pharmaceutical Technology

The expanded licence will include the development of vaccines and therapeutic proteins beyond Covid-19 for human and animal health markets in Africa. During the Covid-19 pandemic, vaccination rates of many countries in Africa were significantly trailing the rest of the world.

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GSK Invests $272 Million in New Vaccine Manufacturing Unit for Production of Shingles and RSV Vaccines

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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has been pumping large sums of cash into expanding its vaccine manufacturing operations and today, it announced an investment of €250 ($272 million) into building a new unit for freeze-drying vaccines at its Wavre campus in Belgium. Both vaccines will be manufactured at the new unit in Belgium.

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Moderna takes aim at global expansion plans with manufacturing ramp-up

Pharmaceutical Technology

In 2020, Moderna made a net loss of $747 million while its investigational mRNA vaccines were under development. However, during the Covid-19 pandemic, the US-based biotech rose to prominence as it was one of the first companies to develop Covid-19 vaccines with its mRNA technology. billion in Covid-19 vaccine sales.

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COVID-19 underscores need to boost pharma manufacturing in emerging markets

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For the past year, life science companies around the world worked at breakneck speed to develop and manufacture safe and effective treatments to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is not only COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics that benefit from a more regionalised approach.

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GenScript ProBio and RVAC partner for Covid-19 vaccine pDNA

Pharmaceutical Technology

GenScript ProBio has announced a strategic collaboration with RVAC Medicines to manufacture GMP-grade plasmid DNA (pDNA) for the latter’s RVM-V001, an mRNA Covid-19 vaccine candidate. Under the agreement, GenScript ProBio will offer GMP plasmid manufacturing service for the RVM-V001 programme.