European Commission Approves CSL and Arcturus Therapeutics’ KOSTAIVE®, the First Self-amplifying mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine
14 2월 2025 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
- KOSTAIVE represents a significant advancement in vaccine
technology, demonstrating superior immunogenicity and antibody
persistence for up to 12 months post-vaccination compared to
conventional mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in clinical trials
Global biotechnology leader CSL (ASX: CSL; USOTC: CSLLY) and
sa-mRNA pioneer Arcturus Therapeutics (Nasdaq: ARCT) today
announced that the European Commission has granted marketing
authorization for KOSTAIVE® (ARCT-154), a self-amplifying mRNA
COVID-19 vaccine, for individuals 18 years and older. KOSTAIVE is
the first sa-mRNA COVID-19 vaccine to receive approval from the
European Commission (EC). KOSTAIVE is currently marketed in Japan
against COVID-19.
The European Commission approval follows a positive opinion
adopted by the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use
(CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on December 12, 2024.
The centralised marketing authorization of KOSTAIVE is valid in all
EU member states and in the EEA countries.
“The European Commission's approval marks a significant
milestone in our ongoing development program for KOSTAIVE,” said
Jonathan Edelman, MD, Senior Vice President of the Vaccines
Innovation Unit, CSL. “We are actively working to optimize
KOSTAIVE's formulation to better meet the needs of healthcare
professionals and their patients. As COVID-19 remains an
unpredictable global threat, CSL is dedicated to completing these
technical enhancements and making this innovative vaccine available
in Europe as soon as possible.”
The approval is based on positive clinical data from several
studies, including an integrated phase 1/2/3 study demonstrating
KOSTAIVE’s efficacy and tolerability, and Phase 3 COVID-19 booster
trials, which achieved higher immunogenicity results compared to a
conventional mRNA COVID-19 vaccine comparator. A follow-up analysis
evaluating a booster dose of KOSTAIVE also showed that the vaccine
elicited superior immunogenicity and antibody persistence for up to
12 months postvaccination against multiple SARS-CoV-2 strains in
both younger and older adult age groups versus the same mRNA
comparator.
“KOSTAIVE and sa-mRNA technology signify a major advancement in
vaccine innovation, providing the potential for broader and more
enduring protection,” said Joseph Payne, CEO of Arcturus. “This
approval highlights the clinical promise of KOSTAIVE and its
ability to protect against the ever-changing COVID-19 virus.”
About sa-mRNA
mRNA vaccines help protect against infectious diseases by
providing a blueprint for cells in the body to make a protein to
help our immune systems recognize and fight the disease. Unlike
standard mRNA vaccines, self-amplifying mRNA vaccines instruct the
body to make more mRNA and protein to boost the immune
response.
About CSL
CSL (ASX: CSL; USOTC: CSLLY) is a global biotechnology company
with a dynamic portfolio of lifesaving medicines, including those
that treat haemophilia and immune deficiencies, vaccines to prevent
influenza, and therapies in iron deficiency and nephrology. Since
our start in 1916, we have been driven by our promise to save lives
using the latest technologies. Today, CSL – including our three
businesses: CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor – provides
lifesaving products to patients in more than 100 countries and
employs 32,000 people. Our unique combination of commercial
strength, R&D focus and operational excellence enables us to
identify, develop and deliver innovations so our patients can live
life to the fullest. For inspiring stories about the promise of
biotechnology, visit CSLBehring.com/Vita and follow us on
Twitter.com/CSL.
For more information about CSL, visit www.CSL.com.
About Arcturus
Founded in 2013 and based in San Diego, California, Arcturus
Therapeutics Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: ARCT) is a commercial mRNA
medicines and vaccines company with enabling technologies: (i)
LUNAR® lipid-mediated delivery, (ii) STARR® mRNA Technology
(sa-mRNA) and (iii) mRNA drug substance along with drug product
manufacturing expertise. Arcturus developed KOSTAIVE®, the first
self-amplifying messenger RNA (sa-mRNA) COVID vaccine in the world
to be approved. Arcturus has an ongoing global collaboration for
innovative mRNA vaccines with CSL Seqirus, and a joint venture in
Japan, ARCALIS, focused on the manufacture of mRNA vaccines and
therapeutics. Arcturus’ pipeline includes RNA therapeutic
candidates to potentially treat ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC)
deficiency and cystic fibrosis (CF), along with its partnered mRNA
vaccine programs for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) and influenza. Arcturus’
versatile RNA therapeutics platforms can be applied toward multiple
types of nucleic acid medicines including messenger RNA, small
interfering RNA, circular RNA, antisense RNA, self-amplifying RNA,
DNA, and gene editing therapeutics. Arcturus' technologies are
covered by its extensive patent portfolio (over 400 patents and
patent applications in the U.S., Europe, Japan, China, and other
countries). For more information, visit www.ArcturusRx.com. In
addition, please connect with us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Forward-Looking Statements
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involve substantial risks and uncertainties for purposes of the
safe harbor provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995. Any statements, other than statements of historical
fact included in this press release, are forward-looking
statements, including those regarding strategy, future operations,
the likelihood of success (including safety, efficacy and
commercialization) of KOSTAIVE, the likelihood that clinical
results received to date will be predictive of future clinical
results and of protection against changing virus variants, the
likelihood of optimizing KOSTAIVE’s formulation and completing
technical enhancements, and the impact of general business and
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