Pharmaceutical Technology

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Novel therapeutics and vaccines for malaria. Novartis and the non-profit Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) announced plans to collaborate on a Phase III study of a novel ganaplacide/lumefantrine-SDF combination for adults and children. Apart from vaccines, other approaches for preventing malaria are also being studied.

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Scienmag

JUNE 3, 2021

Levels of antibodies in the blood of vaccinated people that are able to recognise and fight the new SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant first discovered in India (B.1.617.2)

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 9, 2023

Also known as palivizumab, Sobi ‘s Synagis was the first FDA-approved monoclonal antibody used in children at high risk of RSV disease. After a long period without any new approvals, in May, the FDA approved GSK’s vaccine Arexvy for the prevention of LRTD caused by RSV in individuals 60 and older.

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Scienmag

MAY 12, 2021

Scripps Research scientists propose an innovative vaccine approach to protect against a troublesome family of viruses that present a major global health risk LA JOLLA, CA–Scientists at Scripps Research have unveiled a new Ebola virus vaccine design, which they say has several advantages over standard vaccine approaches for Ebola and related viruses (..)

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Scienmag

MARCH 25, 2021

The largest study of its kind to date also found benefit for lactating women BOSTON – In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard have found the new mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to be highly effective in […].

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Scienmag

MAY 27, 2021

New Penn Medicine study shows how T cells compensate when other immune cells go down PHILADELPHIA–Antibodies aren’t the only immune cells needed to fight off COVID-19 — T cells are equally important and can step up to do the job when antibodies are depleted, suggests a new Penn Medicine study of blood cancer patients with […]. (..)

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Scienmag

MAY 27, 2021

A special type of antibody is produced in patients who’ve had COVID-19 as well as less-serious coronaviruses that cause colds. LA JOLLA, CA–Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, most people in the United States already had been sick with a coronavirus, albeit a far less dangerous one.

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Pfizer

JULY 26, 2022

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.

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Research from the California Institute of Technology shows exactly how antibodies stick to and block the Zika virus, which will inform vaccine development Credit: Image courtesy of Shannon Esswein.

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Scienmag

JULY 23, 2021

Vaccines against COVID-19, which […].

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Scienmag

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Credit: Virginia Tech Renowned tick immunobiologist Utpal Pal wants to ad apt the rabies vaccination platform to produce antibodies that can protect against Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria responsible for Lyme disease. The intention is to apply this work to other tick-borne diseases in the future.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

AUGUST 5, 2022

It is ultra-rare,” says Jesús Rodriguez Requena, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Santiago de Compostela. There is an enormous emphasis on prion protein and prion protein folding,” says Dr. Laura Manuelidis, professor of neuropathology at the Yale School of Medicine. “If

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Scientists at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard find that neutralizing antibody potency predicts severe or fatal COVID-19. BOSTON — Understanding the body’s immune response to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is key to developing effective treatments and long-lasting vaccines.

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Scienmag

AUGUST 17, 2020

. — University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have discovered that a majority of back-pain patients they tested who were taking opioid painkillers produced anti-opioid antibodies. These antibodies may contribute to some of the negative side effects of long-term opioid use.

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Researchers at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital show that levels of specific antibodies developed in the immune response may influence COVID-19 outcomes in both children and adults.

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Bioengineer

JULY 23, 2021

Intranasal vaccination is needle-free and elicits immunity at the site of infection, the respiratory tract. – There are many reasons that an intranasal vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus would be helpful in the fight against COVID-19 infections, University of Alabama at Birmingham immunologists Fran Lund, Ph.D., Credit: UAB.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

November 16, 2020 — An independent data and safety monitoring board (DSMB) overseeing the Phase 3 trial of the investigational COVID-19 vaccine known as mRNA-1273 reviewed trial data and shared its interim analysis with the trial oversight group on Nov. The interim analysis comprised 95 cases of symptomatic COVID-19 among volunteers.

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Scienmag

MARCH 31, 2021

New findings from a Michigan Medicine study reveal that antibody testing is predictive of prior COVID-19 infection, and rapid screening methods – even from finger pricks – are effective testing tools. Researchers analyzed antibody tests conducted on more than 500 subjects […].

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Scienmag

JANUARY 10, 2021

January 11, 2021) – To build better vaccines, scientists want to know more about how our bodies make adequate numbers of effective, durable antibodies against the influenza virus. Credit: Kim Ratliff, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga.

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Scienmag

JANUARY 25, 2021

OHSU study has important implications for vaccines, diagnosis of COVID-19 A new study demonstrates that antibodies generated by the novel coronavirus react to other strains of coronavirus and vice versa, according to research published today by scientists from Oregon Health & Science University.

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Scienmag

MARCH 5, 2021

Scientists at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, in a collaboration the Duke University, have confirmed that monoclonal antibodies can be an effective tool in the global fight against malaria.

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

New study demonstrates candidate’s potential to generate antibodies, limit viral shedding Credit: Craig Chandler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln A genetically edited form of a herpes simplex virus — rewired to keep it from taking refuge in the nervous system and eluding an immune response — has outperformed a leading vaccine candidate (..)

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Delveinsight

AUGUST 27, 2020

Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine triggers an immune response in older adults. Moderna showed robust phase 1 results for its COVID-19 vaccine in adults up to 55 last month. The two drugs combined with radiation cleared the brain metastases in 75% of the animals, as reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

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Pfizer

JULY 8, 2022

FDA Approval of their COVID-19 Vaccine COMIRNATY® For Adolescents 12 through 15 Years of Age. FDA Approval of their COVID-19 Vaccine COMIRNATY® For Adolescents 12 through 15 Years of Age. The vaccine was previously made available to this age group in the U.S. Fri, 07/08/2022 - 11:48. Pfizer and BioNTech Announce U.S.

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Pfizer

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Pfizer and BioNTech Initiate Phase 1 Study of Single Dose mRNA-Based Combination Vaccine Candidate for Influenza and COVID-19. Pfizer and BioNTech Initiate Phase 1 Study of Single Dose mRNA-Based Combination Vaccine Candidate for Influenza and COVID-19. Wed, 11/02/2022 - 15:44. Thursday, November 03, 2022 - 06:45am. Ugur Sahin, M.D.,

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XTalks

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Past Few Weeks Herald Good News on the Vaccine Front. First came the news from Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech that their mRNA vaccine was 90 percent effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 disease. In their trial, some 30,000 patients received either two doses of Moderna’s mRNA-1273 vaccine 28 days apart or placebo.

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Pfizer

DECEMBER 8, 2022

FDA Fast Track Designation for Single-Dose mRNA-Based Vaccine Candidate Against COVID-19 and Influenza. FDA Fast Track Designation for Single-Dose mRNA-Based Vaccine Candidate Against COVID-19 and Influenza. INDICATION & AUTHORIZED USE Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent, (Original and Omicron BA.4/BA.5) AUTHORIZED USE .

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Scienmag

JULY 6, 2021

Studies reveal unprecedented mechanism behind loss of antibody neutralization against this pandemic coronavirus variant of concern Credit: Young-Jun Park, UW Department of Biochemistry Three mutations in the Epsilon coronavirus spike protein dampen the neutralizing potency of antibodies induced by current vaccines or past COVID infections.

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Scienmag

JANUARY 7, 2021

ANN ARBOR–A team of researchers has discovered an antibody that blocks the ability of the dengue virus to cause disease in mice. The findings open the potential for developing effective treatments and designing a vaccine for dengue and similar diseases.

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Scienmag

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The new paper reports the findings of two open-label, non-randomised phase 1/2 trials looking at a frozen formulation and a freeze-dried formulation of a two-part vaccine.

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Pfizer

JULY 8, 2022

Pfizer and BioNTech Submit a Variation to EMA for the Vaccination of Children 6 Months to less than 5 Years with COMIRNATY®. Pfizer and BioNTech Submit a Variation to EMA for the Vaccination of Children 6 Months to less than 5 Years with COMIRNATY®. Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine is FDA authorized to provide: Primary Series.

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Antibodies that react to both ordinary coronaviruses and SARS-CoV-2 are common in the population but don’t neutralize the COVID-19-causing virus PHILADELPHIA — Past exposure to seasonal coronaviruses (CoVs), which cause the common cold, does not result in the production of antibodies that protect against the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, (..)

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Brigham investigators have identified patients who cleared the disease faster and had a persistent antibody response, with important implications for immunity Boston, MA — One of the pressing questions about COVID-19 remains: How long does immunity last? One key indicator of immunity is the presence of virus-specific antibodies.

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Scienmag

MAY 18, 2021

An imaging technique pioneered by Berkeley Lab is helping reveal the best antibodies for COVID-19 detection Credit: (Credit: Berkeley Lab) Vaccines are turning the tide of the pandemic, but the risk of infection is still present in some situations. If you want to visit a friend, get on a plane, or go see a movie, […].

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Scienmag

MAY 13, 2021

New study suggests COVID vaccines may still be helpful for patients with antibody deficiency disorders According to data from a cohort of adult and pediatric patients with antibody deficiencies, patients that often fail to make protective immune responses to infections and vaccinations showed robust T-cell activity and humoral immunity against SARS-CoV-2 (..)

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Nasdaq: MRNA) a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients, today announced the Swiss Federal Government has increased its confirmed order commitment from 4.5 .–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec. 8, 2020– Moderna, Inc.,

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Mymetics continues to progress its Covid-19 vaccine development plan based on its virosome-vaccine platform. This new study will complement Mymetics’ other preclinical Covid-19 studies that are ongoing at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas USA and the Helmholtz Center of Infection Research in Germany.

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