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Valneva accelerates Lyme disease vaccine R&D project with Pfizer

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Subject to approval from regulators the vaccine specialist said it plans the trial known as VLA15-221 as a randomised, observer-blind phase 2 study including around 600 healthy people aged 5-65 years of age. OspA is one of the most dominant surface proteins expressed by the bacteria when present in the ticks that spread the disease.

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Race for COVID-19 vaccine hots up as EMA begins review of BioNTech/Pfizer jab

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The European Medicines Agency has begun a second “rolling review” of a potential coronavirus vaccine jointly developed by BioNTech and Pfizer, setting up a race with a rival from AstraZeneca and Oxford University. According to latest figures from the World Health Organization, there are 42 potential COVID-19 vaccines in clinical development.

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Sanofi snaps up Kadmon and its transplant drug Rezurock

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Kadmon claimed approval for Rezurock (belumosudil) in July as a treatment for chronic graft versus host disease (GVHD) – a common and often fatal complication that can follow a bone marrow transplant and which occurs when the donated cells mount an immune response against the transplant recipient’s tissues and organs.

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Merck Announces Positive Topline Results from Two Additional Phase 3 Adult Studies Evaluating V114, Merck’s Investigational 15-valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine

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Immune responses following vaccination with PNEUMOVAX 23 (month 13) were comparable in both vaccination groups for the 15 serotypes in V114. Results from both studies are based on opsonophagocytic activity (OPA) responses – a measure of vaccine-induced functional antibodies.

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Sanofi/GSK restart COVID-19 vaccine trials after tweaking formulation

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Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline are restarting clinical development of their COVID-19 vaccine, which was delayed after hitting a snag late last year. In December interim phase 1/2 trial results showed the vaccine produced a lower immune response in older adults.

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Lilly and Rigel Enter Strategic Collaboration to Develop RIPK1 Inhibitors

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(Nasdaq: RIGL) today announced a global exclusive license agreement and strategic collaboration to co-develop and commercialize Rigel’s R552, a receptor-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase 1 (RIPK1) inhibitor, for all indications including autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. vice president of immunology at Lilly.

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Next Generation RNA Therapeutics and Vaccines – A Marvel of The Lifesciences Industry

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These RNA based therapeutics play a crucial role in protein production and regulation of gene functions. Key players engaged in the development of self amplifying RNA based therapeutics include ( established before 2010, in alphabetical order ) Alphavax, GlaxoSmithKline, BioNTech and Pfizer.

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