Ashish Jha made promises about the upcoming bivalent COVID-19 boosters that neither he nor the companies are likely going to be able to keep when the rollout begins. 

One of the architects of AstraZeneca’s burgeoning cancer portfolio, oncology R&D head Susan Galbraith is making sure the firm does not rest on its laurels. She talked to Scrip about what’s coming next from the UK major’s cancer pipeline.

In the second part of In Vivo's series on mRNA manufacturing, we look at the technology behind the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines. Experts in the field are working on a variety of improvements that will enable quicker, cheaper, surer development and production of what could turn out to be a wide array of vaccines and therapeutics to be churned out by emerging mRNA platforms.

In making its recommendations for the autumn vaccination program against COVID-19, the UK’s JCVI says Novavax’s Nuvaxovid could be used in exceptional circumstances, but there is no room for AstraZeneca’s Vaxzevria.