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RSV Vaccine Made Possible With Adjuvant Technology
The FDA approved Arexvy, GSK's RSV vaccine, to prevent hospitalizations in adults 60+ years old. The vaccine incorporates GSK's AS01 adjuvant formulation. Learn more about the importance of adjuvants and how they play a role in protecting vulnerable populations against various diseases.
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MAY 2023
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World Malaria Day 2023 - Time to deliver zero malaria: invest, innovate, implement
AAHI provides adjuvant formulations to partners around the world to enable cost-effective malaria vaccine candidates that can be made equitably accessible to people in areas most burdened by malaria-carrying mosquitoes, such as Africa, India, and Brazil. Although malaria is curable, malaria parasites claimed over 600,000 lives and infected 200 million people in 2021 alone. While travelers like Seattle Sounders' Nouhou Tolo can return home to access treatment, the treatment is not ready accessible to residents of, for example, Uganda, Mozambique, and Tanzania. The sole approved malaria vaccine, Mosquirix, is approved in Ghana and Nigeria for young children, but there continues to be an urgen unmet global need for malaria vaccines for older children, adults, and pregnant women.
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By Anthony King
Chemistry World
One of the most successful vaccine adjuvants – QS-21 – is derived from saponin compounds in the bark of the rare Chilean soapbark tree Quillaja Saponaria. QS-21 is a component of GSK’s Shingrix®, Mosquirix®, and Arexyv® vaccines, Novavax’s Nuvaxovid® vaccine, and several leading malaria and tuberculosis vaccine candidates. Researchers are exploring more sustainable ways to source saponin to keep up with growing demand.
Scientists at John Innes Centre in Norwhich, UK, identified the specific pathway by which Chilean soapbark trees synthesize saponins. This isa significant step toward understanding how these rare trees can be induced to produce saponin in parts of the tree other than its bark, for more sustainable and higher volume production.
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