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Merck and Moderna partner to develop and sell cancer vaccine

Pharmaceutical Technology

German pharmaceutical firm Merck has extended its partnership with Moderna to jointly develop and sell mRNA-4157/V940, an investigational personalised cancer vaccine (PCV). In 2016, the companies entered a strategic partnership to develop novel messenger RNA (mRNA) based PCVs.

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US FDA grants approval for Merck’s pneumococcal vaccine for children

Pharmaceutical Technology

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for Merck's (MSD outside the US and Canada) pneumococcal 15-valent conjugate vaccine, Vaxneuvance, for use in children aged six weeks to 17 years. The post US FDA grants approval for Merck’s pneumococcal vaccine for children appeared first on Pharmaceutical Technology.

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Evaxion and ExpreS²ion partner to develop new CMV vaccine

Pharmaceutical Technology

Evaxion Biotech and ExpreS 2 ion Biotechnologies have entered a vaccine discovery collaboration agreement to co-develop a new cytomegalovirus (CMV) vaccine candidate. Based on the CMV vaccine’s clinical development stage at the time of sublicensing, Evaxion could also receive royalty payments from ExpreS 2 ion.

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Influenza vaccine 2 by Shanghai Institute of Biological Products for Pandemic Influenza: Likelihood of Approval

Pharmaceutical Technology

Influenza vaccine 2 is under clinical development by Shanghai Institute of Biological Products and currently in Phase I for Pandemic Influenza. GlobalData uses proprietary data and analytics to create drugs-specific PTSR and LoA in the Influenza vaccine 2 LoA Report. Buy the report here.

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Influenza vaccine 2 by Shanghai Institute of Biological Products for Pandemic Influenza: Likelihood of Approval

Pharmaceutical Technology

Influenza vaccine 2 is under clinical development by Shanghai Institute of Biological Products and currently in Phase I for Pandemic Influenza. GlobalData uses proprietary data and analytics to create drugs-specific PTSR and LoA in the Influenza vaccine 2 LoA Report. Buy the report here.

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Chinese regulator approves personalised cancer vaccine trial

Drug Discovery World

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. Vaccines predicated on neoantigens therefore elicit truly tumour-specific T cell responses.

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Novavax Announces COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Development Progress

The Pharma Data

Nasdaq: NVAX), a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today provided an update on its COVID-19 vaccine program. Novavax completed enrollment of 15,000 participants in a pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial being conducted in the U.K. GAITHERSBURG, Md.,