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Valneva accelerates Lyme disease vaccine R&D project with Pfizer

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Valneva is paying 30% of development costs and in return Pfizer will pay tiered royalties starting at 19% and will lead late-stage development. VLA15 is the only active Lyme disease vaccine in clinical development today, and covers six strains that are prevalent in North America and Europe.

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Symvivo’s Oral COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Clinical Trials

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We are exceptionally pleased to commence dosing of our oral DNA vaccine for COVID-19 as we continue scale-up and manufacturing activities for future clinical development,” Symvivo’s chief medical officer Eric Sievers said in a press release from the company. Related: Red Meat Allergy Test Gets FDA Clearance. “We

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Pfizer’s seeks silver lining in failed C. diff vaccine trial

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diff causes nearly 30,000 deaths each year in the US, and recurrent infections with the bacterium make up 10%-15% of all hospital-treated infections. diff since Sanofi ended development of its candidate in 2017, ahead of Valneva whose VLA84 has been shelved after phase 2 while it looks for a development partner.

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GSK to acquire clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company Affinivax, Inc.

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A 30-plus valent pneumococcal candidate vaccine is also in pre-clinical development. billion to be paid upon the achievement of certain paediatric clinical development milestones. The bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae causes pneumococcal disease. About Pneumococcal disease.

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GSK to acquire clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company Affinivax, Inc.

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A 30-plus valent pneumococcal candidate vaccine is also in pre-clinical development. billion to be paid upon the achievement of certain paediatric clinical development milestones. The bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae causes pneumococcal disease. CAGR: Compound Annual Growth Rate; **CER: Constant Exchange Rate.

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Top 30 Pharma and Biotech Companies in 2023: Statistics and Trends

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With Blackstone Life Sciences, up to €300 million (around $315 million USD) will be invested to accelerate pivotal studies and clinical development programs for formulating the subcutaneous delivery of the anti-CD38 antibody Sarclisa (isatuximab) for the treatment of multiple myeloma. Global sales of Prograf totalled 198.8

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

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Omer maintains that the solution to this challenge is something that’s already in practice by developers of the mRNA vaccines. What you do is you insist that a proper clinical development program is followed and that has been followed with trial data of tens of thousands of people,” says Dr. Omer.