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Successful clinical trial for re-engineered Covid vaccine 

Drug Discovery World

The University of Queensland’s re-engineered clamp platform has produced a vaccine that is equally safe and virus-neutralising as an approved Covid vaccine considered among the best in its class. The Clamp2 trial group showed a 2.5-fold fold boost in neutralising ‘titres’ and it was 2.1 in the Novavax group.

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Clinical trial will test novel inhaled TB vaccine

Drug Discovery World

A new study will compare whether giving tuberculosis vaccine by inhalation is better at protecting against tuberculosis (TB) than injection into the skin. The Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford is conducting the study using Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), the current licensed vaccine against TB.

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India’s CDSCO approves Bharat Biotech’s intra-nasal vaccine for Covid-19

Pharmaceutical Technology

India’s Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has granted approval for Bharat Biotech’s BBV154 vaccine for treating Covid-19. BBV154 is claimed to be the first intra-nasal vaccine for Covid-19 in the world.

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STAT+: Merck pays $250 million to license a Moderna skin-cancer vaccine candidate

STAT News

Merck on Wednesday agreed to extend an ongoing collaboration with Moderna to develop a personalized vaccine for the treatment of patients with skin cancer. Moderna is getting $250 million from Merck to secure opt-in rights to the cancer vaccine candidate, called mRNA-4157.

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Pfizer and Valneva Issue Update on Phase 3 Clinical Trial Evaluating Lyme Disease Vaccine Candidate VLA15

Pfizer

who had been enrolled in the Vaccine Against Lyme for Outdoor Recreationists (VALOR) (NCT05477524) Phase 3 clinical study. The study is investigating the efficacy, safety and immunogenicity of an investigational Lyme disease vaccine candidate, VLA15.

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CMV Vaccine Trials: Moderna’s CMV mRNA Vaccine Enters Phase III

XTalks

Moderna has been testing an experimental mRNA vaccine aimed at combating the human cytomegalovirus (CMV), which poses significant health risks to newborns and immunocompromised patients. The team used the data and patient samples from a gB/MF59 Phase II trial in adolescent girls as a benchmark to assess the new mRNA-based vaccine.

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Partnership to fast-track MERS vaccine

Drug Discovery World

UK-based Barinthus Biotherapeutics, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the University of Oxford are working together to fast-track the development of a vaccine candidate for the prevention of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).