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. 2023 Oct 7;30:84. doi: 10.1186/s12929-023-00977-5

Table 2.

Regulatory agency-approved mRNA vaccines

Brand (Generic) name Drug name Originator company Approval year Regulatory agency Disease Delivery platform Route Target-based actions
Comirnaty (Tozinameran) BNT-162b2 BioNTech SE 2020 EMA SARS-COV-2 LNP i.m. injection COVID19 spike glycoprotein modulator
2020 HC
2020 MHRA
2021 FDA
Comirnaty Original/Omicron BA.4–5 (Tozinameran/Famtozinameran) BNT-162b2 bivalent (WT/OMI BA.4/BA.5) 2022 EMA SARS-COV-2 LNP i.m. injection COVID19 spike glycoprotein modulator
2022 HC
2022 MHRA
Spikevax (Elasomeran) mRNA-1273 Moderna 2020 HC SARS-COV-2 LNP i.m. injection COVID19 spike glycoprotein modulator
2021 EMA
2021 MHRA
2022 FDA
Spikevax Bivalent Original/Omicron BA.1 (Elasomeran/Imelasomeran) mRNA-1273.214 2022 EMA SARS-COV-2 LNP i.m. injection COVID19 spike glycoprotein modulator
2022 MHRA
Spikevax Bivalent Original/Omicron BA.4–5 (Elasomeran/Davesomeran) mRNA-1273 containing SARS-CoV-2 omicron-specific bivalent (BA.4/BA.5) 2022 EMA SARS-COV-2 LNP i.m. injection COVID19 spike glycoprotein modulator
2023 SMC

EMA European Medicines Agency, European Union, FDA Food and Drug Administration, United States, MHRA Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, United Kingdom, HC Health Canada, Canada, SMC Swissmedic, Switzerland, LNP Lipid nanoparticles