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Closing the translation gap in oncology drug development

Drug Discovery World

Fewer than 5% of oncology drugs that enter clinical trials in the US receive US FDA approval. This abysmal success rate significantly trails the overall approval rate for compounds entering human trials (about 10% of which reach commercialisation). Cancer is far more complex than the sum of its parts.

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Budget 2021: Sunak focuses on vaccine development to restart economy

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Sunak pledged £28 million towards the UK’s capacity for vaccine testing, support for clinical trials and to improve the ability to acquire samples of new COVID-19 variants. ” BIVDA, the trade association for British in-vitro diagnostic companies, supported the “super-deduction” policy. .”

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A protein-based COVID-19 vaccine that mimics the shape of the virus

The Pharma Data

Even as several safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines are being administered to people worldwide, scientists are still hard at work developing different vaccine strategies that could provide even stronger or longer-lasting immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants.

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Broadly neutralizing antibodies could provide immunity against SARS-CoV-2 variants

The Pharma Data

Two broadly neutralizing antibodies show great promise to provide long-acting immunity against COVID-19 in immunocompromised populations according to a paper published June 15 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM). However, immunocompromised individuals still lack effective immunity against SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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2021 Biopharma Update on the Novel Coronavirus: January 12

The Pharma Data

In clinical trials, it could detect COVID-19 with 90%+ accuracy in about two minutes. . By the end of January, Johnson & Johnson is expected to deliver preliminary trial results for its one-dose COVID-19 vaccine candidate. . DalCor Pharmaceuticals initiated the Phase II dal-COVID trial of dalcetrapib for COVID-19.

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COVID-19 Vaccine Messaging: Why Vaccine Efficacies Can’t Be Compared and Shopped

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The 66 percent efficacy determined for the J&J vaccine is for the prevention of mild to moderate disease, an average derived from the companies’ global Phase III trials. The knee-jerk reaction among some has been to deem the vaccine inferior to other authorized counterparts that have higher efficacies.

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Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Results: Stellar, Long-Ranging Efficacies in Children and Against Variants

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Pfizer released new COVID-19 vaccine trial results this week from its ongoing clinical studies, which include data showing that its COVID-19 mRNA vaccine is 100 percent effective in children between the ages of 12 and 15 and has a 91 percent efficacy against variants with protection lasting at least six months.