Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has exercised its option to purchase an additional 176.5 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for the COVAX Facility. Of these additional doses, 116.5 million doses are expected to be delivered in the first quarter of 2022 and 60 million doses are expected to be delivered in the second quarter of 2022. […]

Watertown biotech Neumora Therapeutics, a clinical-stage company pioneering precision medicines for brain diseases, has announced its launch. Neumora was founded as a response to the lack of targeted, effective medicines for brain diseases and the high neuroscience drug development failure rate and has raised over $500 million, including a $100 million equity investment from Amgen. […]

The World Health Organization has recommended GSK’s malaria vaccine RTS,S for broader deployment to reduce childhood illness and deaths from malaria in children living in sub-Saharan Africa and other regions with moderate to high transmission. RTS,S is the first and only malaria vaccine to have been shown in pivotal long-term clinical trials to significantly reduce […]

Merck and Acceleron Pharma have entered into a definitive agreement under which Merck, through a subsidiary, will acquire Acceleron for $180 per share in cash for an approximate total equity value of $11.5 billion. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2021. Acceleron is focused on harnessing the power of the […]

Laronde, the Cambridge startup pioneering a novel, engineered form of RNA they call Endless RNA™ (eRNA), has raised $440 Million in a Series B Financing. eRNA can be programmed to express therapeutic proteins inside the body. The financing round included the company’s founder, Flagship Pioneering, among other investors. Ribonucleic acids, or RNAs, play a significant role in biology. […]

Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Arbor Biotechnologies have announced a new collaboration to enhance efforts in developing ex vivo engineered cell therapies using Arbor’s proprietary CRISPR gene-editing technology for select diseases. The new agreement builds upon the companies’ first partnership established in 2018. Under this new partnership, Vertex will receive rights to use Arbor’s technology to research and develop ex […]