Moderna awarded $590M to help accelerate development of mRNA-based bird ...
Jan 17, 2025 · Moderna has been awarded approximately $590 million from the federal government to help speed up the development of an mRNA-based bird flu vaccine, alongside other influenza vaccines, health officials announced Friday.
Scientists Are Racing to Develop a New Bird Flu Vaccine | TIME
Jan 2, 2025 · In recent weeks, scientists led by a team at the CDC reported that an mRNA-based H5N1 vaccine helped ferrets generate strong antibody responses against the virus and to survive a lethal dose that...
As bird flu concerns grow, scientists race to develop new vaccines
Jan 17, 2025 · An mRNA-based bird flu vaccine is important because the technology is faster to develop and easier to update than more traditional vaccines, according to Dawn O’Connell, assistant secretary for ...
Bird Flu: US invests $590 million to fast-track vaccine development
Jan 21, 2025 · Pharmaceutical company Moderna has been granted the funds to work on developing mRNA-based influenza vaccines, including for the strain causing the bird flu outbreak.
Scientists are testing mRNA vaccines to protect cows and people …
May 31, 2024 · The bird flu outbreak in U.S. dairy cows is prompting development of new, next-generation mRNA vaccines — akin to the shots deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two possible bird flu vaccines could be available within ... - NBC News
May 1, 2024 · The U.S. has two vaccines ready that could begin shipping widely within a few weeks if the H5N1 bird flu infecting dairy cows begins spreading more easily to people, federal health officials...
A bird flu vaccine from Moderna is in early stages of development
Jul 2, 2024 · The U.S. government is giving drugmaker Moderna $176 million to develop an mRNA vaccine against the bird flu amid the ongoing outbreak in dairy cows across the country.
Scientists Developing mRNA-Based Vaccine Against H5N1 Bird Flu
TUESDAY, May 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental mRNA vaccine against the H5N1 avian flu is highly effective in preventing severe illness and death in lab animals, researchers...
US government inks a deal with Moderna to make pandemic flu vaccine
Jul 2, 2024 · The US government signed a new deal with Moderna to develop an mRNA flu vaccine that could be used for H5N1 bird flu, like the virus currently causing an outbreak in US dairy cows.
HHS awards $590 million to Moderna to develop mRNA vaccines …
Jan 21, 2025 · The funding allows Moderna to speed the development of an H5N1 avian flu mRNA vaccine that matches the strains circulating in cows and birds and expand its clinical data that would support the use of mRNA vaccines, if needed, against other flu strains that have pandemic potential. ... Moderna said it launched a phase 1/2 study to gather safety ...