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Valneva accelerates Lyme disease vaccine R&D project with Pfizer

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Valneva has said it plans to accelerate research into its Lyme disease vaccine candidate VLA15, bringing forward a trial including children into the first quarter of 2021. Pfizer will pay up to $45 million in development related milestone payments and up to $143 million if the vaccine hits early sales targets.

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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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GSK bolsters vaccines division with $3.3bn swoop on Affinivax

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billion takeover of US biotech Affinivax, buying a pneumococcal vaccine candidate that is aiming to break into a market that for years has been dominated by Pfizer’s Prevnar franchise. The biotech says this can stimulate both B cell (antibody) and T cell immune responses with a single shot. GlaxoSmithKline has agreed a $3.3

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Shot in the arm for Affinivax as it challenges Pfizer’s Prevnar

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Already facing one rival to its blockbuster pneumococcal vaccine Prevnar, Pfizer could have another to contend with, after Affinivax reported positive phase 2 results with its ASP3772 candidate – plus a new breakthrough designation from the FDA. That is equivalent to 14% of Pfizer’s total revenues.

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

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billion in potential development milestones Proposed acquisition provides access to next-generation 24-valent pneumococcal vaccine candidate in phase II development and highly innovative, MAPS TM technology Supports development of a strong portfolio of innovative vaccines and specialty medicines. GSK to pay $2.1

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

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Affinivax is pioneering the development of a novel class of vaccines, the most advanced of which are next-generation pneumococcal vaccines. The number of serotypes in current vaccines is limited due to the degree of immunological interference observed when using existing conjugation technologies.