Bad start for Moderna’s first marketed therapy outside COVID-19

27 June 2024

It was a milestone achievement when Moderna (Nasdaq: MRNA) last month announced its first US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval outside COVID-19.

The US biotech company secured the approval for mRESVIA (mRNA-1345), an mRNA respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine, to protect adults aged 60 years and older from lower respiratory tract disease caused by RSV infection.

This approval was granted under a breakthrough therapy designation and marked the second approved mRNA product from Moderna following the Spikevax vaccine.

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