pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

A trial of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has shown the jab produces an immune response, although the study was too small to produce conclusive findings, particularly on safety. But there are concerns that Russia has rushed development of the vaccine to claim a political victory in the race to get a vaccine approved.

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BioSpace

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Researchers from the University of Washington have developed an investigational vaccine that can safely elicit an immune response against the HER2 protein, a key marker in breast cancer.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 11, 2024

We have noted that cancer patients can develop powerful anti-tumour immune responses that can result in complete cure of the disease and we call these patients ‘elite responders’. By understanding what triggers the adaptive immune response in “elite responders” we have identified new targets and therapeutic antibodies.

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Cloudbyz

MARCH 5, 2024

In the intricate dance of drug discovery and development, two protagonists emerge as the cornerstones of modern medicine: biologics and small molecules. Biologics: Biologics are large, complex molecules, often proteins, that are produced using living cells.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 5, 2023

Global Cancer Segment Market Manager at Agilent Technologies, recently sat down with DDW Editor Reece Armstrong to tell us about the developments in the ‘golden age’ of cancer research. MG: I am responsible for Agilent’s cancer segment. RA: What is the current state of the cancer research industry? Mark Garner, PhD.,

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 15, 2024

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. Chains of different viral antigens are attached to this nanoparticle using a novel ‘protein superglue’.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Cancer monoclonal antibody therapy is a key innovation area in immuno-oncology Monoclonal antibodies are synthetic proteins that target cancer cells directly (targeted therapies) or help improve the immune system’s response to cancer cells (passive immunotherapy). The company is largely involved in immuno-oncology.

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XTalks

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The experimental arthritis vaccine was developed by researchers at the University of Toledo (UToledo) and is a major breakthrough for rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases as well. The vaccine was tested in rats and showed strong, immediate and long-lasting immune responses to confer protection against the disease.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Scientists in the US say they have developed an mRNA-based vaccine that encompasses all 20 known subtypes of influenza that could form the basis of a future universal jab. The goals of the programme are also similar to those in COVID vaccine development.

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XTalks

MAY 7, 2021

As Novavax awaits emergency use authorization (EUA) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its protein-based COVID-19 vaccine NVX-CoV2373, the company shared new data this week on the vaccine’s efficacy against the South African B.1.351 Glenn, president of research and development at Novavax, in a news release. “It

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The Pharma Data

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Sanofi and GSK initiate new Phase 2 study of their adjuvanted recombinant protein-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate. New Phase 2 study assesses potential for refined antigen formulation to achieve optimal immune response, including in older adults. In parallel, development work on new SARS-CoV-2 variants underway.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 15, 2021

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. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2021 Apr 8:2021.04.08.438884.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The failure of several late-stage trials highlights the challenging nature of HIV vaccine development. Since HIV integrates with the DNA, eliminating the virus from the body is very difficult, explains David Montefiori, PhD, director of the Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine Research and Development at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 5, 2022

A COVID-19 vaccine that could work against multiple variants of the coronavirus – developed by US biotech Gritstone bio – has generated encouraging immune response data in its first clinical trial.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The structural proteins include the capsid, pre-membrane/membrane proteins and envelope (E) proteins. The non-structural proteins NS1, NS2A, NS2B, NS3, NS4A, NS4B and NS5 are involved in viral RNA replication and dampening of the host innate immune response.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Researchers from King’s College London and The Institute of Cancer Research, London, have performed a deep dive into the different immune markers within tumour tissue and blood samples of early breast cancer patients whose cancer failed to respond to chemotherapy given to them prior to surgery.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 12, 2024

Elicera Therapeutics will make parts of its technology iTANK available to a medical oncologist and researcher at the undisclosed US cancer centre, whose investigation focuses on the development of novel immunotherapies.

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XTalks

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In a recent study published by Weill Cornell Medicine in the Journal of Infectious Diseases , researchers have reported the potential of Moderna’s experimental mRNA vaccine in protecting adults against CMV, which could potentially also stop the transmission of the virus from mothers to their infants during pregnancy.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 18, 2023

Innovation S-curve for the pharmaceutical industry HIV peptides is a key innovation area in pharmaceuticals HIV peptides are fragments derived from HIV envelope gp160 protein, the HIV matrix/capsid proteins, and the HIV gag, pol and env gene products. These can serve as an important component of a vaccine.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Valneva has said it plans to accelerate research into its Lyme disease vaccine candidate VLA15, bringing forward a trial including children into the first quarter of 2021. Pfizer will pay up to $45 million in development related milestone payments and up to $143 million if the vaccine hits early sales targets.

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XTalks

AUGUST 8, 2022

MiroBio’s Research Pursuits. MiroBio is a private biotech company based in the UK that focuses on developing checkpoint agonist antibodies, which are a new class of therapies that work to restore immune balance in patients with autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. PD-1 is a potent immune inhibitory receptor.

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Camargo

JULY 27, 2021

How and When to Incorporate PK Design into Your Gene Therapy Development Plan. While most gene therapy clinical studies are ongoing, a number of products are in advanced clinical development, and several are approved by FDA. PK Planning for Gene Therapy Development Programs. Exposure-Response Considerations.

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Scienmag

JULY 6, 2021

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden publish new findings in the journal Cancer Discovery showing how pharmacological activation of the protein p53 boosts the immune response against tumours. Given its ability to react […].

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 18, 2023

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. The trial will enrol up to 50 healthy volunteers aged 18 to 49.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 23, 2023

The tool was designed to identify T cells that target any of dozens of specific regions on the virus’s spike protein as well as some other viral regions. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine uses parts of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein to elicit an immune response without causing infection.

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Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 25, 2023

Prior vaccination against tetanus and diphtheria, with or without pertussis (Tdap/Td); herpes zoster (HZ), better known as shingles; and pneumococcus are all associated with a reduced risk for developing AD. Schulz commented: “We and others hypothesise that the immune system is responsible for causing brain cell dysfunction in AD.

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 23, 2021

US biotech Aura Biosciences has closed an oversubscribed financing, raising $80 million to help take its lead virus-like drug conjugate (VDC) for a cancer that affects the eye into late-stage development. The post Aura raises $80m to develop its virus-like cancer drugs appeared first on.

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XTalks

JUNE 15, 2022

The Novavax candidate NVX-CoV2373 is a protein-based vaccine developed using recombinant nanoparticle technology. protein that triggers the immune system to generate antibodies against the virus. Adjuvants can help boost the effectiveness of a vaccine and elicit a stronger immune response.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 29, 2022

A team led by researchers at HMS and the Broad has just accomplished the rare feat of connecting those dots for one important gut bacterium. The researchers show in a report published July 27 in Nature that the links begin with a lipid—a fat—in A. They also confirmed that the lipid helps maintain immune homeostasis.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Next generation vaccines for COVID-19 should aim to induce an immune response against ‘replication proteins’, essential for the very earliest stages of the viral cycle, concludes new research carried out by UCL scientists. ” Discovering the T cell response to replication proteins.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

(Nasdaq: NVAX), a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today provided an update on its COVID-19 vaccine program. Vaccines Taskforce and National Institute for Health Research played pivotal roles in the rapid recruitment and enrollment of volunteers.

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Canadian clinical-stage biotech company Symvivo Corporation has developed an oral COVID-19 vaccine that entered clinical trials this week. Graves explained the gene therapy platform delivers plasmid DNA that enables a patient’s own cells to produce therapeutic proteins that work to clear harmful virus particles from healthy tissues.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The two antibodies that form REGN-COV2 bind non-competitively to the critical receptor binding domain of the virus’s spike protein, which diminishes the ability of mutant viruses to escape treatment and protects against spike variants that have arisen in the human population. There were no deaths in the trial.

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XTalks

AUGUST 26, 2020

The anti-inflammatory macrophages help in preventing an immune response from becoming dangerous, as seen with patients with autoimmune disease. This helps to ensure that inflammation naturally subsides after the initial immune response and promotes tissue repair.

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 8, 2022

SARS-CoV-2 viruses can hide from recognition by the immune system. However, the antiviral immune receptor RIG-I can be stimulated, which improves protection against lethal SARS-CoV-2 infections. Researchers led by Prof. Its absence is associated with disease progression and the development of severe COVID-19,” Prof.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 17, 2022

When James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2018 for their discovery of cancer therapy through inhibition of negative immune regulation, it shone a light on decades of research into recruiting the immune system to fight cancer. Solving mysteries. I have always loved detective stories.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

However, the industry is constantly looking to discover the next frontier in treatment development and technology to provide more effective, safer treatments to patients. One area that is gathering increasing levels of interest is the development of cancer vaccines. A broad front. Prior success.

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