pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Sanofi has bolstered its push into mRNA-based therapies with a new licensing deal – but not as might be expected with some up-and-coming biotech company. Sanofi is the first pharma company to partner with Baidu on its LinearDesign AI platform, which has been developed specifically to optimise the sequence of mRNA-based vaccines and drugs.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The South African coronavirus variant may cut the effectiveness of Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine by around two thirds, according to a laboratory study. Mutations may alter neutralisation by affecting spike function rather than antigen response and its also unclear from this study how the T-cell response is affected.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

AstraZeneca has joined the ranks of big pharma companies bolting on RNA-based technology platforms in the wake of the stellar success of mRNA vaccines for COVID-19. The company sees its deal with VaxEquity as going well beyond COVID-19, extending into other vaccines as well as therapeutic drugs.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The University of Oxford has regularly appeared in our updates since July 2020, as its team of researchers leads an ongoing clinical trial for the Covid-19 vaccine. More recently, the university has released news of its collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific as it looks to discover an immune Covid-19 response pre- and post-vaccination.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 20, 2023

Dr Paula Moran, Dr Kiri Granger, Dr J Mark Treherne , and Dr Jenny Barnett explore the effects of long Covid-19 symptoms and what the opportunities are for drug developers working to treat post-Covid-19 cognitive impairment. developed dementia over the subsequent two years (vs. Notably, among over-65s who had had Covid-19, 4.5%

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Vaccine development to cure coronavirus is at an all-time high after Pfizer and BioNTech announced they had success with a possible vaccine candidate. UK firm develops solution for identifying whether patients are actually infectious from a virus or not. Read on to for the full insight.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 6, 2024

In this article, DDW’s Diana Spencer highlights several prominent hotspots that are taking the lead on advancing European drug discovery and development. The oldest, still active pharmaceutical company worldwide, Merck, started life in 1668 in Darmstadt, Germany. The CDD will sponsor and manage KWF-supported trials.

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XTalks

AUGUST 18, 2021

While infectious disease experts and drug companies have rightfully spent the last 18 months developing therapeutics and vaccines targeting SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, another global threat to public health — antimicrobial resistance (AMR) — has, and will continue to, persist until similar direct action is taken.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Ben Hargreaves highlights the innovation in vaccine delivery that could make a difference in providing low- and middle-income countries with vaccination options, as well as offer a boost to programs in higher-income countries. The question to be answered in the future will be how to improve upon existing vaccine technology.

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XTalks

AUGUST 17, 2020

Immunotherapy continues to be a burgeoning field, with immune-based therapies being among the leading treatments being developed in oncology and autoimmunity. chimeric receptor antigen [CAR] T cell) immune modulators (i.e. protein-based biologics) and vaccine treatments. Immune system modulators (i.e.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 13, 2020

In 2018 the research firm Reputation Institute ranked Pfizer’s reputation at rock bottom on a list of 22 pharma companies – and none of them ranked highly against other sectors! Pfizer has four different mRNA platform vaccines in play against one-another: a radical new approach for them.

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World of DTC Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

J&J’s COVID vaccine is being promoted by the media to have a 98% immune system response. Will it lead to an early approval with limited testing or will J&J ensure the vaccine goes thru thorough testing? government to manufacture 100 million doses of its investigational COVID-19 vaccine.

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