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Intravacc gets NIAID contract for intranasal gonorrhoea vaccine development

Pharmaceutical Technology

from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) unit National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to develop a prophylactic intranasal vaccine against Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG). Therapyx will develop and manufacture the IL-12-containing microspheres in the vaccine called GneX12.

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Vitamin E from palm oil useful in boosting immune response based on studies on liver cells

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The article by Dr. Ahmed Atia and colleagues is published in Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, 2020 Palm oil contains abundant quantities of vitamin E compounds, which include tocopherols and tocotrienols. These compounds have anti-oxidant effects, which protect cells from damage from toxic chemical produced by metabolic processes.

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Symvivo’s Oral COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Clinical Trials

XTalks

Related: Red Meat Allergy Test Gets FDA Clearance. “We Symvivo’s bacTRL Gene Therapy Platform is designed and optimized to address limitations associated with typical vaccines, including the inability to accommodate large or multiple genes, lack of specificity to targeted tissue and poor control over immune response, says the company.

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AZ expands phase 3 trials of COVID-19 vaccine frontrunner into US

pharmaphorum

The UK pharma said that the trial will recruit up to 30,000 adults aged 18 years or over to assess the safety, efficacy and immune response. The trial is assessing efficacy and safety of the vaccine in all participants, and local and systemic reactions and immune responses will be assessed in 3,000 participants.

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NIH begins clinical trial evaluating second COVID-19 booster shots in adults

The Pharma Data

The trial aims to understand if different vaccine regimens – prototype and variant vaccines alone and in combinations – can broaden immune responses in adults who already have received a primary vaccination series and a first booster shot. Fauci, M.D. Investigators aim to have initial findings available by August 2022.

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Mymetics to Advance Preclinical Studies for Virosome-based COVID-19 Vaccine through Innosuisse Grant

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It currently has several vaccines in its pipeline, among which are the HIV-1/AIDS, intra-nasal Influenza and malaria, and collaborative projects in the field of allergy immunotherapy and in oncology. For further information, please visit www.mymetics.com. Forward looking statements.

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INOVIO Announces Publication of Phase 1 Data from its COVID-19 DNA Vaccine Candidate, INO-4800 in The Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine

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All 38 subjects who were evaluable for immunogenicity had balanced cellular and humoral immune responses following the second dose of INO-4800. The antigen is processed naturally in the cell and triggers the desired T cell and antibody-mediated immune responses. About INOVIO.

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