Impacting Our Future
Future of Immunization & Vaccines Q3 2023
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Harnessing the power of AI to develop next-generation vaccines
A biotech company is doing its part to develop superior target discovery platforms in its endeavour to create efficacious vaccines, which can help solve global health issues. Artificial intelligence (AI) enables the development of precise treatments targeting health concerns. Founded in 2008, the clinical-stage biotech Evaxion aims to lead the exploration of AI to design...
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Unique AI platform is helping to create universal vaccines with multiple benefits
The fight against infectious diseases takes a significant leap forward with a cutting-edge AI platform that can design universal vaccines. New developments within artificial intelligence are unlocking the potential for creating broadly protective universal vaccines against infectious diseases. NEC OncoImmunity’s (NOI) technology can identify cross-reactive immune targets covering numerous strains of a disease, cut development...
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Beyond COVID-19: how mRNA shows promise in the future of vaccines
Research into the therapeutic use of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) had been ongoing for decades prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the global community is looking at mRNA technology as the potential answer for fast vaccine delivery. What makes mRNA vaccines different from traditional formations? Instead of injecting someone with part of a pathogen, mRNA-based...
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Lab to jab in 100 days: flexible vaccine development to improve health response
Vaccine development can take up to a decade, which doesn’t work when an infectious disease is spreading across the globe. How can manufacturers help to deliver more quickly? The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) is on a mission to explore whether new vaccines could be developed against emerging infectious diseases within just 100 days....
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How mRNA vaccine development can help the UK become pandemic-prepared
This article is sponsored by Moderna. A major biotechnology company is helping to ensure the UK is ‘pandemic-prepared’ through the construction of a manufacturing and innovation centre. It aims to develop and produce mRNA vaccines for various known and unknown respiratory diseases. One of the major learnings of the Covid-19 pandemic was that the world...
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How maternal immunization can help protect newborns’ health ‘from day one’
Maternal immunization is a crucial health intervention because it can help protect newborn infants — whose immune systems are not yet sufficiently developed — from day one. Iona Munjal is a doctor who has experienced infant illness firsthand. She’s also a mother. Both roles inform the work she does as Executive Director, Vaccine Research and...
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Advancing malaria vaccine development to protect pregnant women in LMICs
Malaria, a deadly disease caused by Plasmodium parasites and transmitted by mosquitoes, remains a persistent public health concern. To minimize its threat to pregnant women, malaria clinical trials must also consider them. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 247 million clinical cases and 619,000 malaria deaths occurred globally in 2021, with the great majority...