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Chinese regulator approves personalised cancer vaccine trial

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According to GlobalData’s Pharma Intelligence Center, there are currently four personalised cancer vaccines in clinical development in China. Hence, there is a need to increase clinical investigations in this promising area.” These vaccines can also be designed to help elicit immunological memory for long-lasting tumour control.

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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. VLA15 has demonstrated a promising immune response and safety data in pre-clinical and clinical studies so far.

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Sanofi/GSK trial woes delay a billion COVID-19 shots by nine months

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Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline have said their COVID-19 vaccine has hit a snag in clinical development, prompting analysts to note this could delay delivery of potentially more than a billion shots globally by up to nine months.

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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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Europe: Where is the drug discovery innovation?

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Professor Dr Carla van Gils, Director of KWF, comments: “Many of academia’s most innovative agents can be difficult to bring into clinical development. Partnering with the Centre for Drug Development enables us to jump into the bench-to-bedside gap and fast track academic findings into clinical trials.

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