Takeda’s head of multi-country organization, India and Southeast Asia, Dion Warren, tells Scrip how things are shaping for Qdenga in Brazil’s public vaccination program and outlines the contours, including pricing aspects, of the deal with Biological E for the dengue vaccine. The US IND application for the jab is still open.

US FDA and BARDA ask makers of recombinant protein SARS-CoV-2 vaccines how they could match mRNA vaccines in post-strain-selection turnaround time for annual booster doses. The reply: give them a fighting chance by selecting just one strain instead of two.

Zydus is looking to launch a Revlimid generic in the second wave while an opportunity might soon emerge from Takeda’s Pentasa. It is also pivoting to a multivariant version of its plasmid DNA vaccine against COVID-19, ZyCoV-D, after the original didn’t receive an encouraging response.

Zydus is pivoting to a multivariant version of its plasmid DNA vaccine against COVID-19, ZyCoV-D, after the original didn’t receive an encouraging response. It also looks to launch a Revlimid generic in the second wave while an opportunity might soon emerge from Takeda’s Pentasa.