The Therapeutic Proteins And Oral Vaccines Market, estimated at USD 288.6 Mn in 2025, is expected to exhibit a CAGR of 8.1% and reach USD 497.8 Mn by 2032.
The market growth is driven by increasing demand for innovative and effective drugs across diverse therapeutic areas. Advances in drug discovery, biopharmaceuticals, and digital technologies are improving treatment outcomes and operational efficiency. Supportive regulations, rising R&D investments, and a strong focus on patient-centric care are creating new opportunities for pharmaceutical companies.
Key market players are focusing on adopting growth strategies such as signing collaboration agreements with market players, which will drive the global therapeutic proteins and oral vaccines market. For instance, In July 2019, Vaxart, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company developing oral recombinant vaccines that are administered by tablet rather than by injection, announced that it had entered into a research collaboration agreement with Janssen Vaccines & Prevention B.V. (Janssen), a pharmaceutical company to evaluate Vaxart’s proprietary oral vaccine platform for the Janssen universal influenza vaccine program.
Global Therapeutic Proteins and Oral Vaccines Market– Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic
The increasing prevalence of COVID-19 has caused production factories to shutdown in almost all sectors, and also affected the supply of raw materials and active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) of manufacturing companies across the globe.
Moreover, various guidelines have been implemented by regulatory authorities for manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients and pharmaceutical products to avoid the spread of COVID-19 and also to reduce the contamination of active pharmaceutical ingredients during the manufacturing process of pharmaceutical products such as vaccines, tablets, etc.
According to the U.S. Food Drug and Administration’s report of June 2020, owing to the COVID-19 public health emergency, drug manufacturers are required to abide by the following current good manufacturing practice (CGMP) regulations and recommendations regarding restriction of sick employees from production areas. 1) Any employee or worker in a production unit should be medically evaluated for infectious diseases such as COVID-19. 2) If any of individual is exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms, they shall be restricted from entering the production house premises of the company to prevent contamination of drugs and active pharmaceutical ingredients (API).
Moreover, in April 2020, the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) published guidelines on exceptional GMP flexibilities for medicine manufacturers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The guidelines are as follows.
- Re-testing of raw materials and tested raw materials should have suppliers certification of analysis (COA).
- Raw materials or products can be transported from one manufacturing site to another manufacturing site after the completion of a QC test and batch certification and products should not be placed in the market until certified by a qualified person in the company.
Global Therapeutic Proteins and Oral Vaccines Market: Key Developments
On March 21 2023, NVIDIA, a software company, announced an expanded set of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) cloud services for customizing AI foundation models to accelerate the creation of new proteins and therapeutics, as well as research in the fields of genomics, chemistry, biology and molecular dynamics.
On July 17 2023, Lonza, a contract manufacturing company launched the TheraPRO CHO Media System, a new cell culture platform that simplifies processes and optimizes productivity and protein quality when used with GS-CHO cell lines. The launch supports pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies manufacturing therapeutic proteins to further improve product quality while streamlining time-to-market.