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Vaxcyte trains its sight on a lucrative market with pneumococcal vaccine

Pharmaceutical Technology

What’s more, VAX-24 achieved a higher immune response to 16 of the 20 serotypes it shares with Prevnar 20. The company says that these four serotypes represent roughly 10–15% of bacteria causing pneumococcal disease in adults. This is in addition to its long-available pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine PPSV23.

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U.S. FDA Approves PREVNAR 20™, Pfizer’s Pneumococcal 20-valent Conjugate Vaccine for Adults Ages 18 Years or Older

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved PREVNAR 20 (Pneumococcal 20-valent Conjugate Vaccine) for the prevention of invasive disease and pneumonia caused by the 20 Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) serotypes in the vaccine in adults ages 18 years and older. Following today’s FDA approval, the U.S.

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Advances in the Battle Against Autoimmune Disease

The Pharma Data

In September, Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings announced topline results from its 52-week Phase III RESOLVE-1 study of lenabasum in patients with diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (SSc), a rare life-threatening multi-system autoimmune disease for which there are no FDA-approved treatments.