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Intravacc gets NIAID contract for intranasal gonorrhoea vaccine development

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Intended for intranasal administration, NGoXIM was demonstrated to be effective in animal models and elicited a durable and cross-protective immune response in proof-of-concept (PoC) studies. . This trial will evaluate the safety of the vaccine and generate efficacy data.

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Symvivo’s Oral COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Clinical Trials

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Canadian clinical-stage biotech company Symvivo Corporation has developed an oral COVID-19 vaccine that entered clinical trials this week. The first healthy volunteer was dosed with the vaccine in Australia as part of the bacTRL-Spike COVID-19 Phase I clinical trial. Related: Red Meat Allergy Test Gets FDA Clearance. “We

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Medicago’s Plant-Based COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Human Trials

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Update (November 11, 2020): Quebec-based biopharmaceutical company Medicago has announced positive results from a Phase I trial of its candidate plant-derived vaccine. Interim results of the trial show that all participants developed an antibody response after two doses of the COVID-19 adjuvanted vaccine candidate.

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As gonorrhoea threat grows, Intravacc gets $14m for vaccine hunt

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Some gonorrhoea infections have become untreatable with all seven main antibiotic classes – a situation last encountered in the 1920s before the advent of effective drugs for the bacterium. At the moment most cases are treated with azithromycin, with intravenous ceftriaxone generally reserved as a last-line therapy.

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

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We look forward to working with the many talented people at Affinivax to combine our industry-leading development, manufacturing, and commercialisation capabilities to make this exciting new technology available to those in need.” 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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We look forward to working with the many talented people at Affinivax to combine our industry-leading development, manufacturing, and commercialisation capabilities to make this exciting new technology available to those in need.”. Phase I/II clinical trials to assess the use of the vaccine in paediatrics are planned to begin later this year.