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JPM23: Vaccine developers as dealmakers, Gilead’s trial tea leaves and building platform companies

Bio Pharma Dive

Moderna’s Stéphane Bancel and Pfizer’s Albert Bourla hinted Monday at greater dealmaking to come for their companies, while Gilead gave investors an update on an important cancer drug trial.

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What DTC marketers can learn from people who refuse a COVID vaccination

World of DTC Marketing

SUMMARY: Even though the Delta variant of COVID is highly contagious, people are still choosing not to get vaccinated. Concerns about safety, fear of unknown side effects, and misinformation about COVID-19 are some reasons why people may not accept the vaccine. CDC and new drugs have fostered an era of mistrust with some people.

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STAT+: Pfizer scraps half of participants in Lyme disease drug trial due to quality issues

STAT News

Pfizer and partner Valneva are scrapping data from roughly half of the participants in a Phase 3 trial of a Lyme disease vaccine candidate after uncovering quality issues with a third-party clinical trial operator.

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What are the top disease areas for clinical drug trials?

Drug Discovery World

Breast cancer In April, Biotech ISA Pharmaceuticals launched a clinical trial using its Amplivant adjuvant technology to test Scancell’s Modi-1 vaccine in patients with triple negative breast cancer, ovarian cancer, head and neck cancer, and renal cancer. The candidate demonstrated 64.7%

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Mathematical models and computer simulations are the new frontiers in COVID-19 drug trials

Scienmag

The models allow for virtual trials of drugs and vaccines, opening the possibility of pre-assessment for drug and vaccine efficacy against the virus. Researchers are using computer models to simulate COVID-19 infections on a cellular level – the basic structural level of the human body.

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Scepticism in press over Kintor’s COVID-19 US drug trial

pharmaphorum

China’s Kintor Pharmaceutical has begun late-stage US clinical development of its potential COVID drug proxalutamide – but there is scepticism over the company’s claims about its research. Reuters quoted Kintor’s chief financial officer Lucy Lu, who said that Kayali was one of its trial investigators.

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Malaria Vaccine a Breakthrough Success with 77 Percent Efficacy

XTalks

After years of disappointing malaria vaccine trials, a malaria shot developed by researchers at the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford has demonstrated an unprecedentedly high efficacy of 77 percent, and may be the magic bullet the world has been waiting for against the deadly disease.