US president Joe Biden announced this week that his administration will send an additional 20 million Covid-19 vaccine doses abroad by the end of June, this time...
Though full of promise, at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic BioNTech was little more than a fledgling German biotech. After correctly surmising that its mRNA...
Pfizer and BioNTech have applied to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for full approval of their Covid-19 vaccine in adolescents aged 12 to 15. If successful, the...
The long simmering discussion over whether manufacturers of Covid-19 vaccines should waive their intellectual property (IP) rights in hope of giving more people access to...
The EU has clinched the deal with vaccine team Pfizer/BioNtech hinted at in mid-April. European Commmission president Ursula von der Leyen late last week informed member...
The European Commission has confirmed rumors that it has initiated legal action against AstraZeneca for failing to meet contractual obligations for deliveries of Its...
German specialty chemicals producer Evonik delivered the first batches of lipids for BioNTech’s mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine on Apr. 22, months earlier than planned....
The Italian government has held talks with several pharmaceutical companies, including Moderna, Novartis, CureVac and Italy’s ReiThera, about producing mRNA-based Covid...
