Tag: vaccine

Handpicked Moderna’s vaccine deal costs up to $3bn

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Morrison government went against departmental advice to continue negotiating with another tenderer for a local mRNA vaccine capability and instead handed Moderna a deal that will pay the...

Review of Morrison’s Moderna deal quietly delayed

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
An audit of the federal government’s controversial deal to bring Moderna to Melbourne to manufacture vaccines has been quietly delayed by four months, pushing its findings into the summer...

Health re-ups with Salesforce for vaccine data

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Health department has signed up for another year of Salesforce to help manage its COVID-19 vaccine data, after tightening assurance controls to verify its technology suppliers’ data security...

Brisbane BioTech in the hunt for US vaccine prize

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Brisbane BioTech Vaxxas has snared fresh US government funding to accelerate its needle free vaccination platform for COVID-19 applications, as the company courts private investors. Vaxxas on Tuesday announced it...

Vaxxas granted licence to develop new needle-free vaccine

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Brisbane-based vaccine patch company Vaxxas is developing the first room temperature-stable needleless vaccine for one of the world’s most common cold-like diseases, weeks after launching efforts to raise $100...

Aussie biotech to trial needle-free typhoid vaccinations

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A Brisbane biotech that makes needle free vaccine delivery patches has been tapped by a global charity to help fight typhoid, the life-threatening disease that infects millions of people...

Moderna opens research hub in Melbourne

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Biotechnology giant Moderna has opened a new research centre and regional headquarters in Melbourne in anticipation of the arrival of its mRNA manufacturing facility next year. The Asia-Pacific Regional...

Needle-free vaccine innovator launches Qld manufacturing hub

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A multi-million-dollar manufacturing facility capable of producing needle-free vaccine patches in Queensland within the next five years has been completed by Brisbane-based biotechnology company Vaxxas. The Vaxxas Biomedical Facility,...