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Novavax Announces COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Development Progress

The Pharma Data

(Nasdaq: NVAX), a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today provided an update on its COVID-19 vaccine program. About NVX-CoV2373 NVX-CoV2373 is a protein-based vaccine candidate engineered from the genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease.

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Pfizer and BioNTech Advance COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy With Study Start of Next-Generation Vaccine Candidate Based on Enhanced Spike Protein Design

Pfizer

Pfizer and BioNTech Advance COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy With Study Start of Next-Generation Vaccine Candidate Based on Enhanced Spike Protein Design. Pfizer and BioNTech Advance COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy With Study Start of Next-Generation Vaccine Candidate Based on Enhanced Spike Protein Design. deliesschef. Tue, 07/26/2022 - 17:41.

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Conversations from ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 2024 

Drug Discovery World

DDW’s Megan Thomas caught up with Oliver Rausch, Chief Scientific Officer at Storm Therapeutics, following the ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 2024, a global meeting focusing on promising new anticancer targets and agents, focusing on those in early phase clinical development.

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Augtyro (Repotrectinib) Is a New Treatment for ROS1-Positive NSCLC

XTalks

Augtyro, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), is available as oral capsules, each containing 40 mg of repotrectinib. As its active ingredient, repotrectinib inhibits the proto-oncogene tyrosine-protein kinase ROS1 and the tropomyosin receptor tyrosine kinases (TRKs) TRKA, TRKB and TRKC.

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$5 million to fund trial of immunotherapy for uveal melanoma

Drug Discovery World

ISA103 was developed using the company’s Synthetic Long Peptide (SLP) technology, designed to fully harness and direct the body’s defense mechanisms towards fighting the disease. It contains multiple long peptides spanning the most immunogenic regions of the PRAME protein. .

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Dyno attracts $1.6bn gene therapy deal with Astellas

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It focuses on the design of AAV capsids, the protein shell of a virus that encloses its genetic material and is used to deliver the payload into cells. Along with improved targeting and safety, the capsids are designed to be able to contain larger genes and be easier to manufacture.

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AZ resumes UK coronavirus vaccine trial

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It uses a weakened, non-replicating, version of a common cold virus (adenovirus) that causes infections in chimpanzees and contains the genetic material of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus spike protein.