Moderna submits EMA filing for updated COVID-19 jab

3 July 2023

US biotech Moderna’s (Nasdaq:MRNA) original Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine made the company a household name across the western world during the pandemic.

With the worst of the virus’ spread now having subsided, Moderna may have more tempered expectations with its updated COVID-19 vaccine encoding the spike protein for the XBB.1.5 sublineage of SARS-CoV-2, but the jab could still have an important role to play, with autumn about to appear on the horizon in the northern hemisphere.

"Our preliminary clinical testing showed that our updated COVID-19 vaccine is effective in generating an immune response against the current XBB variants"Moderna has therefore submitted a regulatory application for the jab to the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

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