Serum Institute's multivalent meningococcal meningitis vaccine gets WHO prequalificationThe Serum Institute of India (SII), world's largest vaccine maker by volumes on Wednesday said its vaccine to protect against the five pred...
12 Jul, 2023, 07.12 PM IST
How to fight climate change effectively? The failure of Covax has some powerful lessonsThe world will never be able to reach its climate goals if large emerging economies such as Brazil and India can't decarbonize just as fast...
12 Nov, 2021, 11.18 AM IST
COVID-19: Plea in HC to waive clinical trials of foreign vaccinesA bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jasmeet Singh said it will hear the matter on May 13 as issues raised in the petition are al...
04 May, 2021, 12.29 PM IST
Serum Institute buys into PolicyBazaar, True North part exitsTrue North’s part exit from PolicyBazaar comes at a time when the insurance aggregator is lining up an initial public offering (IPO) for so...
09 Apr, 2021, 05.23 PM IST
SII seeks Government's nod to give 50 lakh Covishield doses to UK, says won't affect India's vaccination driveIn a communique to Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan on Tuesday, the Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs at the Pune-based Se...
23 Mar, 2021, 08.32 PM IST
Manufacturing capacity of Covishield 70-100 MM doses per month, Covaxin 150MM doses per year: DBTThe estimated manufacturing capacity of COVID-19 vaccine ‘Covishield' is 70-100 million doses per month, while the indigenously developed ‘...
08 Mar, 2021, 11.00 PM IST
Four ESDM firms diversify manufacturing base from China to India: Som Parkash"An amount of Rs 4,376.95 crore has been committed by SIDBI to 62 Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) out of the Fund of Funds for startups...
10 Feb, 2021, 07.50 PM IST
Covid-19: An FAQ factsheet for Covishield vaccine by Serum InstituteThe factsheet details information that would enable recipients to understand the benefits and common side-effects of the Covishield vaccine...
13 Jan, 2021, 08.25 AM IST
Govt committed to buying another 4.5 crore doses of Covishield vaccineFlights have started ferrying the vaccines to different cities from Pune from Tuesday morning. According to the purchase order placed on Mo...
12 Jan, 2021, 11.48 AM IST
Serum Institute launches India's first fully indigenously developed pneumococcal vaccinePNEUMOSIL has been developed through a collaboration spanning over a decade among Serum Institute of India Pvt Ltd, PATH and Bill and Melin...
29 Dec, 2020, 11.36 AM IST
Cadila, one of India's two Covid vaccine makers, is going in for a huge capacity boostWhile Cadila’s plasmid DNA candidate doesn’t use an infectious agent like others, and instead introduces the DNA sequence encoding the anti...
27 Oct, 2020, 01.35 PM IST
Chinese firm refuses to honour pact on sharing Covid-19 vaccine tech with BangladeshSinovac Biotech Ltd in a letter on September 24 said the trial would be delayed unless the Bangladesh government provided funds, although t...
03 Oct, 2020, 10.46 PM IST
Serum Institute gets DCGI notice over Oxford COVID-19 vaccine trial suspension by AstraZenecaThe Drugs Controller General of India, Dr V G Somani, in his show-cause notice has asked SII as to why the permission granted for conductin...
10 Sep, 2020, 11.54 AM IST
Bangladesh’s top pharma group & Serum Institute of India join hands for Covid-19 vaccineThe investment amount will be treated as an advance and once the vaccine receives regulatory approvals, SII will include Bangladesh among t...
28 Aug, 2020, 03.35 PM IST
Serum Institute conducting phase III clinical trial of tuberculosis vaccine: DBTThe BCG vaccine is administered routinely to all newborns as part of the national childhood immunisation programme to prevent tuberculosis ...
27 Jul, 2020, 09.19 PM IST
India's 1st fully indigenously developed vaccine against pneumonia gets DCGI nodThe ministry said the vaccine will be used for active immunisatiuon against invasive disease and pneumonia caused by 'Streptococcus pneumon...
15 Jul, 2020, 08.15 PM IST
Indian companies foreign investment decline 36% to $1.39 billion in JulyInvestment by Indian companies in their overseas ventures fell by more than 36 per cent to USD 1.39 billion in July this year, the Reserve ...
04 Sep, 2018, 05.13 PM IST