Keyword: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Almac snagged a grant from the Gates Foundation to support a project aimed at reducing the costs of ingredients used to manufacture contraceptives.

Here is some other vaccine news of note for the week.

CureVac is working on a printer to quickly create mRNA vaccine candidates against known pathogens and unknown diseases.

Without additional funding, the world won't see new "highly efficacious" vaccines against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, according to a new study.

Univercells’ technology managed to keep the manufacturing cost of inactivated polio vaccine within $0.15 per dose.

Here is some other vaccine news of note for the week.

Bill Gates and Larry Page set up a challenge to develop a universal flu shot.

Experts say technology is advancing to develop vaccines faster at a time of increasing emerging disease outbreaks.

The public-private vaccine coalition will support Themis' development of Lassa fever and MERS vaccines through phase 2.

The two new grants will support development of universal flu and malaria vaccines leveraging CureVac’s RNActive mRNA-based platform.