pharmaphorum January 10, 2022
The arrival of COVID-19 brought precious few positives, but one that emerged for the pharmaceutical industry was the emergence and validation of mRNA vaccine technology to prevent disease. Ben Hargreaves takes a look at how the space is currently progressing and in what direction it could be heading in future.
The pandemic brought about an interesting phenomenon for the pharmaceutical industry: there is a much greater awareness of both individual companies within the industry and their individual treatments. Previously, messenger RNA (mRNA) therapies were a niche part of the global R&D pipeline, now a wide section of the public is at least familiar with the name of this type of therapy.
The first mRNA-based vaccines were brought onto the market...