GreenLight Biosciences Holdings PBC announced a licensing agreement with Serum Institute of India, Pvt Ltd., aimed at accelerating accessibility to messenger RNA products in emerging markets globally. The agreement reflects the commitment to vaccine equity by both GreenLight and SII. Their shared vision is to produce enough messenger RNA vaccines to meet the health needs of billions of people per year.

SII will have access to GreenLight's proprietary technology platform to develop, manufacture, and commercialize up to three messenger RNA products in markets with a total population of more than 5 billion, including Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia. SII has an option to expand this license agreement to two additional messenger RNA vaccines or therapies to be named later. GreenLight retains the right to develop, manufacture, and commercialize those products licensed to SII in North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, and South Korea.

GreenLight will work to discover and design messenger RNA-based vaccine candidates, beginning with a shingles product, for SII to undertake clinical development, manufacturing, and commercialization. In furtherance of this goal, GreenLight will transfer its existing clinical-scale manufacturing process to SII's facility in Pune, India. SII will work to bring the products through clinical trials and, assuming successful trials, to the production levels required for its markets.