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GreenLight and US NIH partner to develop Covid-19 vaccine for variants

Pharmaceutical Technology

The company will jointly design and analyse messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) Covid-19 vaccines in partnership with the NIH unit National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Vaccine Research Center (VRC). They intend to develop vaccines that provide lasting immune responses compared to existing vaccines.

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Kaiser Permanente Joins Late-Stage Trial for Pfizer and BioNTech’s Lead COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

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In a press statement , Kaiser Permanente outlined that in this phase of the trial, data will be collected about the safety, immune response and efficacy of the vaccine candidate as required for regulatory review.

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Biopharma Update on the Novel Coronavirus: October 27

The Pharma Data

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the study sponsor, could not verify the safety issue, but their analysis also indicated there was little likelihood the antibody would help the hospitalized patients. Eli Lilly halted a separate study of its LY-COV555 antibody against COVID-19 in hospitalized patients.

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FDA Action Alert: Merck, Aurinia and Amgen

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By inhibiting calcineurin, the drug blocks IL-2 expression and T-cell mediated immune responses. On December 17, 2020, Aurinia inked a collaboration and license deal with Japan’s Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. It acts as an immunosuppressant, with a synergistic and dual mechanisim of action.

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Unshackling TP53 in leukaemia with a novel combo; Merus receives funds for cancer research pact; Vera Therapeutics bags $80M; Gritstone appends COVID-19 to the pipeline.

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Vera Therapeutics has raised USD 80 million to take a drug licensed from Merck KGaA into a phase 2b kidney disease clinical trial. Under a licensing pact with La Jolla, Gritstone has access to epitopes of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a part of the virus to which antibodies bind, identified in its studies.

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Top 5 Most Promising FDA New Drug Approvals Expected in the Second Half of 2024

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Some treatments already on the market have grabbed additional approvals in 2024, including Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy (semaglutide) for cardiovascular risk reduction, Dupixent (dupilumab) for eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) in young children and Xolair (omalizumab) for food allergies. to develop and commercialize acoramidis in Japan.

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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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