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Intranasal delivery of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine fails to generate strong immune response

BioPharma Reporter

Intranasal delivery of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 failed to induce either a consistent mucosal antibody response or a strong systemic immune response, according to results from a Phase 1 clinical trial released today.

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Trim the sugar: New HIV vaccine design improves immune response

Medical Xpress

A new HIV vaccine from Scripps Research has shown a significantly improved ability to neutralize the virus in preclinical tests, and it will soon be studied in healthy people who volunteer to participate in clinical trials.

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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. in the combination arm and 62.2%

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‘Proactive’ vaccine can protect against unknown future coronaviruses

Drug Discovery World

Researchers have developed a new vaccine technology that can provide protection against a broad range of coronaviruses with potential for future disease outbreaks – including ones we don’t know about yet. Building protective vaccines before a pandemic emerges “We don’t have to wait for new coronaviruses to emerge.

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mRNA universal influenza vaccine enters clinical trials

Drug Discovery World

A clinical trial of an experimental universal influenza vaccine developed by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) Vaccine Research Center (VRC) has begun enrolling volunteers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

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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). They subsequently expanded the collaboration to include the development of antigen mRNA cancer vaccines in 2018.

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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.