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Moderna’s Covid-19 shot gets Australian TGA provisional approval for kids

Pharmaceutical Technology

According to positive interim data from the Phase II/III KidCOVE clinical trial, the vaccine offered a strong neutralising antibody response in children of the age group of six months to five years following administration of the two-dose initial regimen of the mRNA-1273 vaccine.

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Zydus starts Phase II COVID-19 vaccine trial; Taysha raises $95M; FDA declines DBV’s peanut allergy patch; Combating COVID-19 with decoy target

Delveinsight

Taysha raises USD 95 Million to take 4 CNS gene therapies into the clinic. Taysha Gene Therapies has raised USD 95 million to take four gene therapies into humans. Scientists have already isolated many highly potent neutralizing antibodies from patients who recovered from COVID-19.

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The continued search for a cure to HIV

pharmaphorum

The hope of being able to provide a functional or complete cure for AIDS is being raised by the prospect of utilising recent developments in the industry, including gene therapy and mRNA vaccines. Gene therapies are another approach that has been validated with approvals in recent years.

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World AIDS Day 2023: New and Promising Treatments for HIV/AIDS

XTalks

More Investigational Therapies for HIV Are on the Way American Gene Technologies, a pioneering biotech company headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, has released promising results from its Phase I trial of AGT103-T, a gene therapy designed for individuals with chronic HIV disease. In November 2023, Hookipa Pharma Inc.,

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What to expect from PEGS Europe 2023: Day 2

Drug Discovery World

Ahead of protein and antibody engineering conference PEGS Europe 2024 in Lisbon, DDW’s Megan Thomas looks at what to expect from each track of the annual biologics technology meeting. Kielczewska will present: ‘Discovery of antibody-based therapeutics to challenging targets: Platform considerations’.

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2020 Year in Review: COVID-19, CRISPR and Immunotherapies Define the Year for the Life Sciences

XTalks

From rare disease drug approvals to treatments involving immunotherapies and gene therapies and awarding of a Nobel Prize to the inventors of the gene-editing tool CRISPR, 2020 was a year of great activity and productivity despite the backdrop of the pandemic. Antibody drugs were also developed as targeted COVID-19 treatments.

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Keeping tabs on Covid-19: Cell and gene clinical trials advance despite Covid-19…

The Pharma Data

As the pharma industry stands firm in its commitment to advance the sector to fight Covid-19, news has emerged from the European Commission who intend to streamline the development of therapies using genetically modified organisms to treat Covid-19. Regenerative medicine and advanced therapies thriving despite Covid-19 disruption. “Our