Wednesday, May 6, 2020 Daily Archives

With Arcturus mRNA, Catalent bags another COVID vaccine project

Catalent will make scaled-up batches of Arcturus Therapeutics’ mRNA vaccine candidate from a customized suite at its Madison, Wisconsin facility. The CDMO says it has been presented with around 100 opportunities to support COVID-19 development projects. Under terms of the deal, financials of which have not been divulged, contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) Catalent will make Arcturus’ COVID-19 messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine candidate LUNAR-COV19 to support clinical trials. The potential single-shot vaccine uses Arcturus’ STARR Technology platform, which combines…