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

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Pfizer cut vaccine production targets because of raw material shortage – reports

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Pfizer slashed its production targets for its COVID-19 vaccine because of a lack of raw materials for its supply chain, according to press reports. The big pharma has said in recent weeks that it expects to produce 50 million doses of the vaccine it developed with the German BioNTech, down from an earlier target of 100 million doses.

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GSK’s Maria Reyes Boceta-Muñoz Talks Vaccine Development in a Post-Pandemic World

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Vaccines have been an integral piece of the global public health toolbox for over 200 years, but the COVID-19 pandemic brought about a new era in vaccine development with renewed interest in mRNA technology and unprecedented accelerated regulatory approvals.

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Arexvy Becomes World’s First RSV Vaccine

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This week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the world’s first respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine. The shot, named Arexvy, is approved for adults aged 60 years and older and was developed by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Who Should Get the RSV Vaccine Arexvy? Furthermore, the RSV vaccine was found to be 94.6

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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. Pfizer will pay up to $45 million in development related milestone payments and up to $143 million if the vaccine hits early sales targets.

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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. Good news for everyone the Oxford vaccine trials are back up and running. We will back our scientists to deliver an effective vaccine as soon as safely possible [link].

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

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The European Union has ordered 300 million doses of BioNTech/Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine following this week’s landmark announcement that it was effective in more than 90% of patients. Vaccine doses for Europe will be produced in BioNTech’s German manufacturing sites, as well as in Pfizer’s manufacturing site in Belgium.