Multiple COVID-19 vaccines, including from J&J, Pfizer and RDIF, are seen gaining approvals in India in 2021, following on from a raft of R&D, manufacturing and marketing tie-ups, as well as other developments, in the action-packed field last year. 

Serum Institute has struck a partnership with Dynavax and Aurobindo Pharma with US-based company COVAXX for new vaccine candidates while Bharat Biotech has tied up with Ocugen to explore marketing of its existing contender, Covaxin, in the US.

Emerging Company Profile: Dublin-based United Neuroscience, spun out of an animal vaccine maker, believes it can pick up and improve upon a vaccine approach to Alzheimer’s that was abandoned nearly two decades ago due to safety issues.

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