Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 16, 2023

Samir Ounzain , PhD, CEO & Co-Founder of HAYA Therapeutics, looks at how a better understanding of our DNA can lead to increased activity for RNA therapeutics. The whole world realised the power of RNA when the Covid-19 pandemic brought us the first mRNA-based vaccines.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Replicate Bioscience has shared positive results from the Phase I trial of RBI-4000, its srRNA-based rabies vaccine. In this clinical trial, evaluating safety and immunogenicity of RBI-4000 , participants received one or two doses of srRNA vaccine at low doses (0.1mcg, 1mcg or 10mcg).

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STAT News

JULY 19, 2022

An expert panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy voted Tuesday to recommend use of Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine — an achievement a long time in the making for the Gaithersburg, Md.-based based company.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 11, 2021

Flagship Pioneering, the VC fund run by Moderna’s co-founder Noubar Afeyan has launched a new biotech Laronde , with an ambitious plan to create a new class of drugs based on Endless RNA. Called eRNA for short, this class of medicines is programmable and can continuously express therapeutic proteins inside the body.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 20, 2023

Targovax has unveiled plans to rebrand as Circio , reflecting its strategic shift to focus on expediting the development of its innovative circular RNA (circRNA) platform. Initially reported in 2011, CircRNA is a naturally occurring class of RNA.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 6, 2023

The rNPV model is a more conservative valuation measure that accounts for the risk of a drug in clinical development failing to progress. MRNA-0184 Overview mRNA-0184 is under development for the treatment decompensated heart failure. The therapeutic candidate consists of messenger RNA (mRNA) encoding for relaxin.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 31, 2021

Just a few months after breaking cover with its new take on RNA therapeutics, Laronde has raised an impressive $440 million in second-round financing backed by Flagship Pioneering – which was behind the founding of mRNA specialist Moderna. The post ‘Endless RNA’ startup Laronde raises $440m to fuel pipeline appeared first on.

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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.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In May, Germany pledged to provide up to €750 million ($889 million) in funding to support vaccines against COVID-19, and the main recipients have now been revealed – BioNTech, CureVac and IDT Biologika – which are all German biotechs. Both of these vaccines are based on RNA and in phase 3 and phase 1 testing, respectively.

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Delveinsight

AUGUST 26, 2021

Seattle biotech firm Shape Therapeutics has signed a deal potentially exceeding USD 3 billion with pharma giant Roche to bolster the development of gene therapies for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Shape’s RNA editing technologies can modify the RNA sequence, which makes the body’s protein building blocks.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Alexandre Le Vert, CEO and co-founder of Osivax, discusses the company’s breakthrough vaccine technology, oligoDOM, and how it’s driving the development of new influenza and SARS-CoV-2 vaccines that attack T-cells, providing a long-lasting effect. The technology. The technology.

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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. “But it may be; and if it doesn’t other novel vaccines with similar benefits may well take on this role.”

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Pfizer has begun a pilot delivery programme in the US for its experimental COVID-19 vaccine, as the company seeks to overcome logistical challenges caused by its ultra-cold storage requirements. The vaccine developed in partnership with Germany’s BioNTech has been shown to be 90% effective in clinical trials.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 20, 2021

based Gritstone Oncology is developing a novel COVID-19 vaccine based on adenovirus and messenger-RNA technology designed to combat future variants of the coronavirus. Emeryville, Calif.-based

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

billion doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to the COVAX global initiative led by Gavi, the vaccine alliance, which aims to ensure fair access across the globe. There are growing concerns about the lack of COVID vaccines available to poorer countries. billion COVID shots to global vaccine drive appeared first on.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 11, 2021

Novavax has finally provided some clarity about when its long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine will be ready, saying regulatory filings in the US, UK and Europe are due in the third quarter. The vaccine could play an important role in the next stage of the pandemic as phase 3 trials have shown encouraging safety and efficacy data.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

As the death toll from COVID19 inexorably mounts, Pfizer and BioNTech have announced that their COVID-19 vaccine candidate is more than 90% effective at countering the disease in an interim analysis. This means that protection is achieved 28 days after the initiation of the vaccination, which consists of a 2-dose schedule.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 10, 2021

BioNTech has said it plans to set up a regional base and new manufacturing site in Singapore so that the biotech can keep pace with demand for its mRNA-based coronavirus vaccine and pipeline products in other disease areas. It’s an important milestone for the company, which established a US headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts last year.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 3, 2021

Accelerates development of current Sanofi licensed programs in vaccines and potential to explore other therapeutic areas Fast tracks establishment of Sanofi’s recently announced mRNA Center of Excellence Full integration upgrades drug formulation capabilities and enhances US talent in a promising new technology.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 7, 2020

China’s Sinovac has raised $515 million to increase its distribution and production capacity as clinical development of its potential coronavirus vaccine nears conclusion. Sinovac has a coronavirus vaccine in late-stage development, which is undergoing large-scale trials in Brazil, Pakistan, Indonesia and Chile.

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Delveinsight

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Boehringer stated that the Abexxa’s generation aims at cancer-specific proteins situated throughout the mobile versus proteins at the mobile membrane broadening the selection of possible cancer antigen objectives. That deal, signed in 2014, had aimed to convey most cancer mRNA vaccines to the marketplace. Jeffrey Stafford, Ph.D.,

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 31, 2021

Adjuvanted S-Trimer COVID-19 vaccine candidates demonstrated favorable safety and tolerability profiles and strong neutralizing immune responses in a phase 1 trial. Clover plans to initiate a global phase 2/3 trial in the first half of 2021 with an interim analysis for vaccine efficacy potentially in the middle of 2021.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 24, 2022

New research suggests messenger RNA can be effectively used as a ‘universal’ therapy against different coronaviruses. . Rather than messenger RNA as a vaccine, this shows that mRNA can be used as a universal therapy against different coronaviruses,” said Gaurav Sahay, OSU and the Texas Biomedical Research Institute.

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XTalks

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The answer may lie in the genetic code of the virus, which scientists at Duke University have found contains several silent mutations that affect protein folding. The researchers focused on the spike proteins that protrude from the surface of the coronavirus, which are responsible for viral attachment and entry into host cells.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The European Medicines Agency has begun a second “rolling review” of a potential coronavirus vaccine jointly developed by BioNTech and Pfizer, setting up a race with a rival from AstraZeneca and Oxford University. The post Race for COVID-19 vaccine hots up as EMA begins review of BioNTech/Pfizer jab appeared first on.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 22, 2021

As research developments into RNA vaccines help scientists accelerate drug candidates to arm the immune system against coronavirus, Pharma IQ ’s Keeping tabs on Covid-19 update returns with news from some of the biotechnology innovators leading the fight against the global pandemic.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

DECEMBER 9, 2022

M&A – Commended PRODUCT LAUNCHES – Commended RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT – Commende d. Solvias is a Swiss-based pharmaceutical company focused on contract research, development and manufacturing. Pharmaceutical Technology Excellence Rankings – The Verdict. Integrated analytical services for pharmaceuticals.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 31, 2021

Clover plans to initiate a global Phase 2/3 efficacy trial of its protein-based S-Trimer COVID-19 vaccine candidate adjuvanted with Dynavax’s CpG 1018 plus alum in the first half of 2021 with an interim analysis for vaccine efficacy potentially in the middle of 2021. EMERYVILLE, Calif.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The Phase 1 trial was a randomized, observer-blind, placebo-controlled study to assess the safety, reactogenicity and immunogenicity of the adjuvanted COVID-19 S-Trimer vaccine candidates formulated with different antigen levels. No serious adverse events related to the vaccine candidates studied were reported.

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XTalks

MAY 10, 2023

In this episode, Ayesha talked about the FDA approval of the world’s first vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The vaccine is approved for adults 60 years of age and older. Read more about the vaccine, including clinical trial results on its efficacy and safety.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 21, 2024

Advances in this area are having a positive effect on both the commercial success of drug discovery and development organisations, as well as benefitting the health and wellbeing of the global population. His recent research focuses on vaccines against influenza and other (re)emerging viruses.

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Roots Analysis

AUGUST 15, 2023

Biomanufacturing utilizing cell free systems is an emerging area of research that enables the synthesis of different biomolecules, such as cytotoxic proteins, fusion proteins, post translationally modified proteins, antibodies, enzymes, vaccines and other complex proteins, without the use of living cells.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 16, 2021

The study assessed cynomolgus macaques vaccinated with 12µg of either the first or second-generation vaccine candidate. During challenge with the original SARS-CoV-2 virus, animals vaccinated with CV2CoV were found to be better protected based on highly effective clearance of the virus in the lungs and nasal passages.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After being hailed as a triumph of public-private drug development, Moderna’s partnership with the US government on its COVID-19 vaccine looks like it may descend into acrimony.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 26, 2023

The combination of advanced long- and short-read genomic sequencing technologies holds great promise for precision oncology, and in the development of mRNA vaccines for certain cancers. Just one mutation can lead to a complete change in protein formation. Just one mutation can lead to a complete change in protein formation.

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 11, 2021

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines global business unit of Sanofi, and Translate Bio (NASDAQ: TBIO), a clinical-stage messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics company, today announced the start of the Phase 1/2 clinical trial for MRT5500, an mRNA vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

AstraZeneca is preparing to file its COVID-19 vaccine with regulators after phase 3 trial results showed it is up to 90% effective. AZ made the announcemen t as the UK regulator reportedly gears up to make a decision on the rival vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech, ahead of counterparts in the US and Europe.

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