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Chinese regulator approves personalised cancer vaccine trial

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Likang Life Sciences has been granted implied approval by China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for the clinical trial of its innovative personalised neoantigen-targeted vaccine LK101 Injection for advanced solid tumours. Hence, there is a need to increase clinical investigations in this promising area.”

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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. The post Sanofi/GSK trial woes delay a billion COVID-19 shots by nine months appeared first on.

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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. Valneva is paying 30% of development costs and in return Pfizer will pay tiered royalties starting at 19% and will lead late-stage development.

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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. In the case of a rolling review, the EMA evaluates trial data as they become available before a complete filing is submitted.

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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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Europe: Where is the drug discovery innovation?

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billion on R&D during 2021, with Germany and Switzerland being the biggest contributors, and around one fourth of clinical trials worldwide were performed in Europe 1. The city is host to many innovative biotech companies, including relative newcomers Orexa, a company that recently launched its first Phase II clinical trial.

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The Future of Vaccine Development

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Members of the science and medicine team have additionally worked on hundreds of other vaccine trials involving hundreds of thousands more volunteers. While vaccine development has come a long way, there is much to accomplish in the future. I expect decentralized trials will continue to evolve.