XTalks

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

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.

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XTalks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

announced that the first participant has been dosed in a new Phase I trial for an innovative HIV vaccine candidate, VIR-1388. The trial’s primary objective is to assess the safety of VIR-1388 and its capacity to stimulate a specific immune response against HIV in study participants. Vir Biotechnology, Inc.,

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Two of the three planned late-stage efficacy trials for NVX-CoV2373 sponsored by Novavax are fully enrolled, and more than 20,000 participants have been dosed to-date. In alignment with Novavax’ commitment to transparency, Phase 3 clinical trial protocols are posted to the company’s website at Novavax.com/resources upon finalization.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 11, 2020

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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Drug Discovery World

JULY 26, 2023

A Cancer Research UK-funded clinical trial has shown, for the first time, that a new class of antibody could benefit cancer patients whose existing treatments have stopped working. The drug, MOv18 IgE, was developed by researchers at King’s College London.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Cellular Immunotherapy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer is under clinical development by Iovance Biotherapeutics and currently in Phase II for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Attributes of the drug, company and its clinical trials play a fundamental role in drug-specific PTSR and likelihood of approval.

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The Pharma Data

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

. Sanofi and GSK have begun a Phase I/II clinical trial testing their adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine in healthy adults. The vaccine candidate, developed in partnership by the firms, is based on the recombinant protein-based technology used in Sanofi’s seasonal influenza vaccines and GSK’s pandemic adjuvant technology.

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Worldwide Clinical Trials

JUNE 15, 2022

The pandemic has had a lasting impact on the ability of sites to participate in trials, particularly in the US. We’ve also seen a decrease in available research nurses, as they have had to be reassigned to COVID patients. We need to consider how to use diverse populations in gene therapy trials.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 4, 2020

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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The Pharma Data

MARCH 11, 2021

Clinical trial to assess safety, immune response and reactogenicity, after preclinical data showed high neutralizing antibody levels. The Companies expect interim results from this trial in the third quarter of 2021. About the Phase 1/2 clinical trial. About previously-published preclinical results.

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Camargo

JULY 27, 2021

When developing a clinical development program for these increasingly popular therapies, it is important that sponsors use modeling and pharmacokinetic (PK) analysis to evaluate parameters that can be measured while dosing with gene therapy drugs, to characterize exposure-response data and inform rational dosing.

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Pfizer

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

These study participants, representing approximately half of the total recruited participants in the trial, are being discontinued following violations of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) at certain clinical trial sites run by a third-party clinical trial site operator.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

One standout success we have all benefitted from is vaccine development, with notable vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech, AstraZeneca, and Moderna. As the world stopped, researchers and stakeholders from across the industry turned their attention to tackling the SARS-CoV-2 virus. However, trial recruitment continues to be a limiting factor.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Merck has exercised its option to jointly develop and commercialise personalised cancer vaccine (PCV) mRNA-4157/V940 pursuant to the terms of its existing collaboration and license agreement with Moderna. . KEYNOTE-942 is an ongoing randomised, open-label Phase II trial that enrolled 157 patients with high-risk melanoma.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 31, 2021

Adjuvanted S-Trimer COVID-19 vaccine candidates demonstrated favorable safety and tolerability profiles and strong neutralizing immune responses in a phase 1 trial. The phase 1 clinical trial was a randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study in 150 adult and elderly participants.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The Phase 1 trial was a randomized, observer-blind, placebo-controlled study to assess the safety, reactogenicity and immunogenicity of the adjuvanted COVID-19 S-Trimer vaccine candidates formulated with different antigen levels. Strong Th1 cell-mediated immune responses were also observed for the vaccine candidates with either adjuvant.

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The Pharma Data

JULY 18, 2021

Clinical Data Supporting Approval Demonstrated Non-Inferior Immune Responses for the Serotypes Shared with PCV13 (1, 3, 4, 5, 6A, 6B, 7F, 9V, 14, 18C, 19A, 19F and 23F). VAXNEUVANCE Elicited Superior Immune Responses for Serotypes 3, 22F and 33F Compared to PCV13, Which Are Major Causes of Disease.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 12, 2021

The Israeli-based biotech is dedicated to developing innovative therapies for cancer, based on its proprietary research of newly discovered immune-checkpoints and immune-evasion mechanisms. Ben-Moshe told BioSpace that BND-22 differs from traditional immunotherapy in that it can elicit a more total immune response. . “It

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 29, 2020

As in earlier outpatient trial, immune status when patients entered the trial was a strong predictor of viral load and clinical outcomes. The analysis was prospectively designed to focus on patients who had not yet mounted their own immune response to SARS-CoV-2 (i.e., Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 25, 2021

Merck & Co is to axe development of two COVID-19 vaccine candidates, focusing on development of two therapies instead following disappointing results in early trials. US-based Merck & Co said the decision followed findings from phase 1 clinical studies of the vaccines codenamed V590 and V591.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 6, 2024

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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JANUARY 3, 2021

. Weber is a renowned melanoma specialist and leading immunotherapy translational and clinical scientist. Both will help NexImmune advance current early-stage clinical trials and will guide Company’s translational efforts to develop new immunotherapy products. GAITHERSBURG, Md.,

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

With the safety of gene therapies thrown into the spotlight by a series of FDA clinical holds, Astellas has said that an interim readout in a phase 1/2 trial of its Pompe disease candidate AT845 hasn’t found any cause for concern.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Nasdaq: SYBX ), a clinical stage company bringing the transformative potential of synthetic biology to medicine, today announced SYNB1891 has advanced into the combination therapy stage of the ongoing Phase 1 trial. SYNB1891 is being evaluated in a Phase 1 clinical trial. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. , Sokolovska, A.,

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

announces the first patient treated in the phase 1b/2a clinical trial examining IP-001 in thermally ablated solid tumors. The initiation of this clinical trial marks a significant milestone for Immunophotonics. “The The initiation of this clinical trial marks a significant milestone for Immunophotonics.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

(Nasdaq: NVAX), a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced that the U.S. Currently in late-phase clinical development, NVXCoV2373 is a stable, prefusion protein made using Novavax’ nanoparticle technology and includes its proprietary MatrixM adjuvant.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 21, 2021

The rest are in Phase I trials for ovarian cancer, AML, MDS, heart failure, HPV+ solid tumors and recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP). Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the go-ahead for the company to initiate a Phase I trial of PRGN-2012 in adults with recurrent RRP. The company also has an extensive preclinical pipeline.

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The Pharma Data

MAY 15, 2023

The acquisition complements Gilead’s existing clinical development priorities by adding additional pipeline assets for well-validated targets in oncology and inflammation. Both programs have the potential to address multiple indications, offering broad development opportunities alone and in combination with Gilead’s portfolio. “The

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Today’s data, involving an additional 524 patients from the ongoing Phase 2/3 trial, provides definitive final virology results and meets the clinical endpoint of reducing medical visits. Results showed no significant difference in virologic or clinical efficacy between the REGN-COV2 high dose (8 grams) and low dose (2.4

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VirTrial

OCTOBER 25, 2023

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.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 10, 2020

(NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) today announced that the New England Journal of Medicinehas published safety and final efficacy results from the pivotal Phase 3 trial of BNT162b2, their mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate. Senior Vice President and Head of Vaccine Research & Development, Pfizer. “As

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 25, 2020

We are advancing the clinical development of mRNA-1273 with our Phase 3 COVE study, which is now fully enrolled with a representative demography of participants across ages, ethnicities and high-risk populations. Moderna currently has strategic alliances for development programs with AstraZeneca PLC and Merck & Co.,

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

This clinical study will evaluate the safety, tolerability, and clinical activity of escalating doses of orally administered capsules of Foralumab. The trial is a dose-ranging, open-label study that will enroll 60 patients in the U.S. billion by 2025, according to Grand View Research 1. NEW YORK and LONDON, Nov.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Here, experts weigh in on what to expect from cancer research and immunotherapies. Dr Gen Li, Founder and President, Phesi “In 2024, we can expect immunotherapy trials to become a driving force for change in clinical development. In the past 10 years, immunotherapy trials have increased by 430%.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The vaccine targeted both the inner nucleocapsid (N) and the outer spike (S) proteins of the virus to maximize the immune response. The study showed this broad immune response led to the complete clearance of the virus in a matter of days after infection of previously-vaccinated primates.

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 29, 2022

Evusheld significantly reduced the risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 in PROVENT Phase III trial, with protection lasting at least six months Evusheld retains neutralising activity against the Omicron BA.2 1-3 Evusheld was generally well-tolerated in the trial. 1-3 Evusheld was generally well-tolerated in the trial.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

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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