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“Game-changing” personalised cancer vaccine enters UK clinical trials   

Drug Discovery World

A clinical trial of a personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma patients has been launched in the UK. The vaccines are personalised to each patient after a tumour sample is removed during surgery and then analysed using DNA sequencing.

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Scancell announces positive Phase 1 data for needle-free COVID-19 vaccines

BioPharma Reporter

Scancell has reported preliminary immunogenicity data from its Phase 1 COVIDITY clinical trial: with the plasmid DNA based COVID-19 vaccine candidates inducing immune responses when delivered via needle-free tech.

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Symvivo’s Oral COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Clinical Trials

XTalks

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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Rome Therapeutics raises $77m for junk DNA-targeting drugs

pharmaphorum

Startup Rome Therapeutics has raised $77 million in second-round financing to help mine sequences of DNA – which were dismissed for years as ‘junk’ – for hidden treasure. Much of this repeatome is thought to derive from viruses that embedded in our DNA millions of years ago.

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Gilead Sciences buys XinThera to boost oncology and inflammation pipeline

Pharmaceutical Technology

XinThera’s therapy targeting MK2 is expected to enter clinical trials later in 2023. The acquisition will give Gilead Sciences access to XinThera’s portfolio of two small molecule inhibitor programmes, one of which targets PARP1 to treat cancer and the other of which targets MK2 for inflammatory diseases.

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UK Pharma Company Scancell Selects COVID-19 Vaccine for Clinical Trials | 2020-12-21

The Pharma Data

UK drug developer Scancell said it has chosen a COVID-19 vaccine candidate, SN14, from more than a dozen potential products to advance to a clinical trial. . SN14 works by targeting the coronavirus’ nucleocapsid and spike proteins to prevent viral replication using the company’s ImmunoBody DNA vaccine technology.

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INOVIO Announces Publication of Phase 1 Data from its COVID-19 DNA Vaccine Candidate, INO-4800 in The Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine

The Pharma Data

Additionally, Phase 1 clinical data found INO-4800 to have a favorable safety and tolerability profile with no serious adverse events reported; only six Grade 1 adverse events (AEs) were observed, primarily minor injection site reactions. . ” Findings from the Phase 1 Clinical Trial.

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