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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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Conversations from ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 2024 

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DDW’s Megan Thomas caught up with Oliver Rausch, Chief Scientific Officer at Storm Therapeutics, following the ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 2024, a global meeting focusing on promising new anticancer targets and agents, focusing on those in early phase clinical development.

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CUE-102 by Cue Biopharma for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Likelihood of Approval

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CUE-102 is under clinical development by Cue Biopharma and currently in Phase I for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer. It is composed of IL-2 and a pMHC complexed with a dominant peptide derived from the from the Wilms’ Tumor protein. It is developed using Immuno-STAT technology.

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CUE-102 by Cue Biopharma for Gastroesophageal (GE) Junction Carcinomas: Likelihood of Approval

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CUE-102 is under clinical development by Cue Biopharma and currently in Phase I for Gastroesophageal (GE) Junction Carcinomas. It is composed of IL-2 and a pMHC complexed with a dominant peptide derived from the from the Wilms’ Tumor protein. It is developed using Immuno-STAT technology.

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First patient dosed in trial of antibody for kidney disease

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The first patient has been dosed in the clinical Phase I evaluation of the Sema3A monoclonal antibody, part of the Evotec-Bayer multi-target research collaboration in kidney diseases. Semaphorin-3A is an extracellular guidance protein and a well-known regulator of the actin cytoskeleton.

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AZ resumes UK coronavirus vaccine trial

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AstraZeneca has resumed UK trials for its coronavirus vaccine, after the country’s medicines regulator gave the all-clear following a safety scare. After vaccination, the surface spike protein is produced, priming the immune system to attack the SARS-CoV-2 virus if it later infects the body.

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EU orders 300 million doses of BioNTech/Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine

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The companies said deliveries of an initial order of 200 million vaccines will be subject to approval by European regulators and are expected to start by the end of this year. The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is based on mRNA, which instructs the body to produce the “Spike” protein on the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19.