Therapy Areas: Infectious Diseases
Moderna Inks Agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific for Fill/Finish Manufacturing of Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine
2 June 2021 - - US-based biotechnology company Moderna, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRNA) has entered into an agreement with US-based life science company Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE: TMO) for fill/finish sterile manufacturing services and supply packaging for Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, the company said.

Under the terms of the agreement, Thermo Fisher's commercial manufacturing site in Greenville, North Carolina will be used for aseptic fill/finish, labeling and packaging to support the production of hundreds of ms of doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Production will begin in the third quarter of 2021.

In 10 years since its inception, Moderna has transformed from a science research-stage company advancing programs in the field of messenger RNA, to an enterprise with a diverse clinical portfolio of vaccines and therapeutics across six modalities, an intellectual property portfolio in areas including mRNA and lipid nanoparticle formulation, and an integrated manufacturing plant that allows for both clinical and commercial production at scale and at unprecedented speed.

Moderna maintains alliances with a broad range of domestic and overseas government and commercial collaborators, which has allowed for the pursuit of both groundbreaking science and rapid scaling of manufacturing.

Most recently, Moderna's capabilities have come together to allow the authorized use of one of the earliest and most-effective vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Moderna's mRNA platform builds on continuous advances in basic and applied mRNA science, delivery technology and manufacturing, and has allowed the development of therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases and auto-immune diseases.

The company now has 24 development programs are underway across these therapeutic areas, with 14 programs having entered the clinic.
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