mRNA vaccine

Rwanda’s First mRNA Vaccine Production Facility: Important Facts

Created: March 15, 2023

Rwanda has taken a significant step forward in its fight against infectious diseases by becoming the first African country to house a facility for manufacturing messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines. The facility, spanning across 800 square meters of space, is capable ..

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Clinical Trials of mRNA HIV Vaccine

Created: April 5, 2022

Phase 1 clinical trials for the evaluation of three HIV vaccines have been launched by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), United States. Overview: These vaccines are based on a messenger RNA (mRNA) platform. This is a ..

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Conditional market approval for Covaxin, Covishield

Created: January 29, 2022

The Drug regulator in India has granted conditional market approval for the COVISHIELD and COVAXIN vaccines. This means that the private hospitals shall administer the vaccines. However, the vaccines will not be available in retail medical stores. What is conditional ..

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Precautionary vaccine jabs in India

Created: January 11, 2022

The Government of India is to provide third dose of vaccine. This third dose has been named “precaution dose” or booster dose. About the precaution dose The health care workers, comorbid patients (people with severe medical conditions) and frontline workers ..

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India’s first mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine

Created: August 26, 2021

The Drugs Controller General of India (DGCI) gave nod for Phase-2 and Phase-3 trails of India’s first mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine. Highlights First mRNA-based covid-19 vaccine, called HGCO19, is being developed by a Pune-based biotechnology company, Genova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd. The company ..

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