AstraZeneca to acquire vaccine maker Icosavax for up to $1.1B
Bio Pharma Dive
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The deal signals the pharma company’s continuing interest in vaccine development and hands it a combination shot aimed at two respiratory viruses.
GSK’s Maria Reyes Boceta-Muñoz Talks Vaccine Development in a Post-Pandemic World
XTalks
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Vaccines have been an integral piece of the global public health toolbox for over 200 years, but the COVID-19 pandemic brought about a new era in vaccine development with renewed interest in mRNA technology and unprecedented accelerated regulatory approvals.
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Covid vaccine profits and the strain on supply channels
World of DTC Marketing
JANUARY 8, 2021
SUMMARY: Pfizer and Moderna will sell $28 billion of Covid-19 vaccines this year. Pharma companies will make an estimated $40 billion on the global COVID-19 vaccine market this year, which will be split between Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, Novavax, and others. So far the winners are Pfizer and Moderna.
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COVID 19 vaccine means big money and greed
World of DTC Marketing
JULY 28, 2020
QUICK READ : Pharma had a chance to earn some goodwill with a very skeptical public but it’s become obvious that the rush to develop a vaccine is about profit, executive stock, and Wall Street despite potential huge investments from the government. Moderna, a 10-year-old vaccine developer based in Cambridge, Mass.,
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COVID-19 vaccine: A hope and prayer?
World of DTC Marketing
JULY 22, 2020
QUICK READ : The government is agreeing to pay billions of dollars to the first company that developed a COVID-19 vaccine. billion for 100 million doses of a vaccine made by Pfizer Inc. The question that the media is asking is “will consumers trust a COVID-19 vaccine?” health officials agreed to pay $1.95
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Can J&J’s vaccine approval erase bad pharma?
World of DTC Marketing
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
SUMMARY: Pharma companies, like J&J, have received criticism for engaging in illegal activities, such as providing kickbacks and bribes, knowingly shipping adulterated or contaminated drugs to pharmacies, and marketing drugs for unapproved uses. Can a COVID-19 vaccine approval suddenly erase that? billion in penalties.
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Will people line up for a COVID-19 vaccine?
World of DTC Marketing
AUGUST 3, 2020
QUICK READ: As COVID-19 vaccines enter Phase III trials one has to wonder just how transparent pharma companies will be with the data. Personally I would want to know as much as I can before I ask for the vaccine but I also know that greed can make people do stupid things and there is a lot of money at stake here.
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UK Vaccine Taskforce head lifts lid on Novavax deal
pharmaphorum
APRIL 19, 2021
The UK’s unique offering as a life sciences research hub helped convince US biotech Novavax to develop its COVID-19 jab there, according to the head of the country’s Vaccines Taskforce. . If you look at the development, we signed 15,000 people in six weeks in a trial set up by the NHS.
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Cancer vaccines: providing the edge in oncology
pharmaphorum
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
In this article, Ben Hargreaves looks into the promise of cancer vaccines and how this treatment modality may offer advantages over existing immunotherapies in the oncology sector. One area that is gathering increasing levels of interest is the development of cancer vaccines. A broad front.
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Large pharma companies support Women in STEM leadership pilot
Drug Discovery World
DECEMBER 7, 2022
The programme is aimed at organisations seeking to develop leadership and mentoring skills and promote diversity in the life sciences work environment. We are excited to open up the waitlist for the next stage, and encourage people from other backgrounds to get involved, including our tech company members.” .
UK Pharma Company Scancell Selects COVID-19 Vaccine for Clinical Trials | 2020-12-21
The Pharma Data
DECEMBER 20, 2020
UK drug developer Scancell said it has chosen a COVID-19 vaccine candidate, SN14, from more than a dozen potential products to advance to a clinical trial. . SN14 works by targeting the coronavirus’ nucleocapsid and spike proteins to prevent viral replication using the company’s ImmunoBody DNA vaccine technology.
Prefilled syringes and vaccines: Optimising parenteral packaging for the next pandemic
Pharmaceutical Technology
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
When it comes to vaccines and other high-value biologics, it is essential that effective formulations go hand in hand with safe delivery. This also has clear advantages in healthcare settings, particularly when it comes to vaccines. In general, a prefilled syringe is clearly preferred for vaccines.”. A new challenge .
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Report suggests UK’s national vaccine facility is on the block
pharmaphorum
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
The UK’s Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (VMIC) – unveiled with fanfare by the government in 2018 – is rumoured to be up for sale. It was billed at the time as a key tool to accelerate the development of new and innovative vaccines to combat some of the world’s most prevalent diseases, from discovery to licensed product.
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Moderna unveils $500m plan for African vaccine facility
pharmaphorum
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Moderna has said it plans to invest $500 million in a new facility for manufacturing mRNA vaccines in Africa, and has kicked off a search to find a suitable country and location. of Africans have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and just 15 African nations have met the agency’s objective of 10% coverage.
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Recipharm leverages BSF capabilities at French site, secures vaccine packaging deal
BioPharma Reporter
JANUARY 28, 2022
Contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), Recipharm, says it has inked a deal with a top 10 big pharma company to support vaccine manufacturing from its facility in Kaysersberg, France.
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So much for pharma earning trust back
World of DTC Marketing
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
SUMMARY: Business by press release has made pharma executives a lot of money but we still haven’t seen any over reviewed data on COVID 19 vaccines. The American Nurses Association, a national professional organization, said one-third of its members do not intend to take the vaccine, and an additional third are undecided.
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Boris Johnson slammed for saying “greed” is behind UK vaccine success
pharmaphorum
MARCH 24, 2021
The Prime Minister reportedly told Conservative backbench MPs on a Zoom call that “capitalism” and “greed” was behind the success of the UK’s COVID-19 vaccination programme, before backtracking after realising he had made a blunder and telling attendees to forget the comments. " But he’s wrong.
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The Pandemic Treaty and the opportunity to end ‘vaccine apartheid’
pharmaphorum
DECEMBER 16, 2022
Ben Hargreaves discovers why some have referred to the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments as a form of apartheid. Further, with a pandemic treaty in development, there are reasons to believe that many countries and the WHO want to see a more equitable distribution of medical products for future pandemics.
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AI continues to gain momentum in the biopharmaceutical industry in 2023
Pharmaceutical Technology
JANUARY 16, 2023
Recent cases in the pharmaceutical sector include Poolbeg Pharma finding more than one respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine candidate with AI by going through a vast amount of early stage clinical data to prioritise candidates and reposition them as novel treatments for RSV infection.
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The hypocrisy of big pharma
World of DTC Marketing
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
SUMMARY: Pfizer will earn over 26 billion dollars from their COVID vaccine, while Moderna and J&J also look to their vaccines for more profit dollars. Here is his rationale: “ When we asked the Pfizer colleagues to develop a Covid-19 vaccine in l ess than a year, you did. trillion social spending package.
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Governments and pharma relationships and implications for antimicrobial resistance
Pharmaceutical Technology
AUGUST 1, 2022
Since 2020, government agencies have provided funding for expensive late-stage vaccine development and the expansion of manufacturing capacity, as well as other key pharmaceutical activities. The shift from private to public funding enabled more rapid development of Covid-19 drugs and vaccines.
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COVID prompts another milestone, as India clears first DNA vaccine
pharmaphorum
AUGUST 23, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the development of mRNA-based vaccines, and its influence has now extended to DNA-based shots as well, with Zydus Cadila’s ZyCoV-D getting emergency use authorisation in India. Proponents of the approach claim that DNA vaccines may have advantages over other technologies like mRNA.
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FDA guidance allows fast updates of COVID-19 vaccines
pharmaphorum
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
The FDA has issued guidelines allowing for faster development of updated coronavirus vaccines, based on previously approved shots that have been tweaked to combat emerging variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. If vaccines need updating, the FDA expects that manufacturing information will remain generally the same.
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HEOR and Market Access Strategies in Today’s Drug Development Landscape – Insights from AstraZeneca’s Dr. Heather McDonald
XTalks
OCTOBER 4, 2023
In my current role, I have country-level responsibility for AstraZeneca’s entire portfolio, including cardiovascular, respiratory, vaccines and oncology. How do you make strategic decisions around products that are in the early stage of development and are still years from regulatory approval and launch?
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Pfizer’s seeks silver lining in failed C. diff vaccine trial
pharmaphorum
MARCH 2, 2022
Pfizer’s vaccine for Clostridium difficile (C. The pharma company was quick to point out however that the CLOVER trial of PF-06425090 was undermined by a lower-than expected rate of C. With no approved vaccines to date, C. As it stands, PF-06425090 is still leading the field among candidate vaccines for C.
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Vaccines upstart Curevo has designs on blockbuster GSK franchise
pharmaphorum
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
Seattle, US vaccine startup Curevo has raised $60 million in first-round financing that it says will be used to run head-to-head trials of its experimental shingles vaccines CRV-101 and GlaxoSmithKline’s market-leading Shingrix. The biotech has been looking for a development partner for the shot as a chickenpox vaccine.
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Deep Dive: Research and Development
pharmaphorum
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
Centessa’s founder on the new company’s unique R&D model. Putting together a quarter-billion dollar pharma company from ten mergers in four months is not for the faint-hearted – but that’s what biotech investment guru Francesco de Rubertis has achieved with his latest project Centessa. The landscape for UK SMEs post-COVID.
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Pharma Tuesday Stuff
World of DTC Marketing
APRIL 20, 2021
With medical visits picking up again among patients vaccinated against covid-19, health providers are starting to see the consequences of a year of pandemic-delayed preventive and emergency care as they find more advanced cancer and rotting and damaged teeth, among other ailments. Pfizer could sell $24 billion in Covid Vaccine this year.
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Preventing the next pandemic: Infrastructure and global equity
pharmaphorum
JULY 15, 2022
In the final piece of a three-part series, Ben Hargreaves explores how manufacturing infrastructure was rapidly built up to the required capacity to ensure sufficient supply of COVID-19 vaccines, and what still remains to be done to improve vaccine equity globally. All angles.
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Earning trust and building trust need to occur at the same time
World of DTC Marketing
MARCH 1, 2021
Pharma has to undress, and that trust is an ongoing process, and leaders cannot rest on the work they have completed, like developing vaccines. The employees at J&J are saying, on LinkedIn, how proud they are that their company developed a COVID vaccine.
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Edelman Trust Barometer raises questions
World of DTC Marketing
MARCH 11, 2022
3hree: Those with higher levels of trust in healthcare are more likely to be proactive about their general health, vaccinated against COVID-19, supportive of public health measures over personal freedom, and accepting of changing recommendations from healthcare officials than are low-trusting respondents.
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European drug discovery and development: success stories
Drug Discovery World
OCTOBER 6, 2022
With key players including AstraZeneca, Bayer, Novartis and Pfizer pushing the boundaries of drug development, the reason behind this growth is evident. According to McKinsey & Company: “Europe’s complex biotech landscape comprises hundreds of companies, dozens of countries, and multiple paths to innovation and financing… .
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In The Global Race For The COVID-19 Vaccine, India Stands As A Strong Player
Delveinsight
JULY 29, 2020
Today the whole world is in a search for an effective vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2. The vaccine appears to be the only solution to prevent coronavirus. Several pharma and biotech companies are developing and manufacturing safe and effective vaccines to fight coronavirus.
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Pharma’s corporate social responsibility?
World of DTC Marketing
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
What is pharma’s responsibility? Pharma provides medications to treat everything from severe cardiac issues to depression but should America’s pharma companies go beyond just providing a treatment? They believe developing new medications is enough while rake in billions for shareholders.
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Pfizer’s RSV Vaccine; Forte Biosciences’ Atopic Dermatitis Asset; Bone Therapeutics’ Osteoarthritis Programme; JandJ’s HIV Vaccine Trial; Versanis Bio $70 M Series A Financing; AC Immune’s Alzheimer’s Antibody Drug
Delveinsight
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Pfizer’s RSV Vaccine enters in the late-stage of clinical trials. As the battle to get an effective Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine on the market heats up, Pfizer is launching a critical late-stage study of its experimental vaccine against a severe version of a cold virus that may cause pneumonia and death in the young and elderly.
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Post-COVID-19 cognitive impairment: a new target for drug development?
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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COVID heralds a faster future for drug development (if stakeholders can collaborate)
pharmaphorum
APRIL 8, 2021
COVID-19 has been a trial-by-fire showing just how quickly drugs and vaccines can be developed under the right circumstances – but there is much to do to ensure this progress is not lost, said speakers at WIRED Health 2021, including the CEOs of BioNTech and BenevolentAI. . BioNTech seeks “new kind of pharma company”.
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Johnson & Johnson Begins Largest Late-Stage Trial To-Date for COVID-19 Vaccine
XTalks
AUGUST 27, 2020
With vaccine trials for COVID-19 ramping up and entering late stages, Johnson & Johnson has announced plans for what will be the largest Phase III trial so far for a vaccine against the novel coronavirus. This is double the enrollment that vaccine makers Moderna and Pfizer have planned for their Phase III trials.
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And so pharma profiteers again
World of DTC Marketing
APRIL 14, 2021
QUICK READ: Pfizer has already announced a price increase to the EU for their Covid Vaccine. The company announced last month that it expects to make $15bn (£10.9bn) off its coronavirus vaccine this year based on current deals. billion to develop one new medicine, including the cost of the many failures.”
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The future of pharma depends on its employees
World of DTC Marketing
JANUARY 7, 2021
Some within pharma has worked at so many jobs their resume reads like a list of pharma companies. These people tend to want titles of importance and come across as someone who would politically fit within a company. Why hasn’t Pfizer offered some help in vaccine distribution?
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Can ROI ever be used with patient-centric?
World of DTC Marketing
MARCH 21, 2021
SUMMARY: The goal of business is to maximize profits for shareholder returns but when a company that serves the public good pays CEOs millions of dollars in compensation while having among the highest profit margins within ANY industry I would argue that something is dreadfully wrong.
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Thursday pharma headlines
World of DTC Marketing
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
Misuse Federal Data to Falsely Claim COVID Vaccines Are Dangerous. The national vaccine safety surveillance program run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Established anti-vaccine activists and groups are newly interested in mining VAERS data to suggest that matters are even worse than what it shows.
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North Korea ‘launched cyber-attack on Pfizer for COVID-19 jab data’
pharmaphorum
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
A news agency is claiming that North Korea launched a cyber-attack on Pfizer in a bid to steal information about its BioNTech-partnered COVID-19 vaccine, citing South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS). Staff are working faster, harder and longer hours than ever before,” says Jack Garnsey of cybersecurity specialist VIPRE. “In
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How Berlinger’s climate-focused innovation is helping to reduce, remove and offset emissions from the pharmaceutical supply
Pharmaceutical Technology
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
And despite the recent pandemic that forced the industry to develop and deliver treatments and vaccines all over the world, the issue of reducing emissions has remained high on industry leaders’ agendas. The company has taken action across all areas of its business to reduce its environmental impact. 1] [link]. [2] 2] [link].
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