Moderna has secured fast track designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its mRNA-1273, the mRNA vaccine candidate against the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2).
The first U.S. patients have been dosed in a clinical trial testing whether four experimental mRNA vaccine candidates can prevent infection with the virus that causes COVID-19 disease.
Sanofi’s vaccines global business unit Sanofi Pasteur has collaborated with Translate Bio for the development of a novel messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine for COVID-19, the disease resulted due to the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.