Pharmaceutical Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Health Canada has granted approval for a supplement to a New Drug Submission (sNDS) of Novavax ’s Covid-19 vaccine (Recombinant protein, Adjuvanted), Nuvaxovid (NVX-CoV2373), for use in adolescents aged 12 to 17 years. The trial is designed to analyse the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Last year was a positive year for biopharmaceutical companies, particularly those with Covid-19 vaccines. As a result of huge global sales of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines, the split in profits between Pfizer and BioNTech’s Comirnaty contributed towards revenues of $81.3bn and $22.4bn last year, respectively. YoY revenue growth.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

AUGUST 2, 2022

Samsung Biologics and GreenLight Biosciences have completed the initial commercial-scale engineering run for their messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) Covid-19 vaccine under their manufacturing collaboration. Following the demonstration at Samsung, the clinical trial of GreenLight’s Covid-19 booster vaccine is anticipated to commence this year.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The FDA decision follows a similar designation for the vaccine UV1 against malignant melanoma in December 2021.

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Bio Pharma Dive

JANUARY 31, 2023

The company expects yearly revenue from Comirnaty and Paxlovid to fall by nearly two thirds in 2023 amid lower vaccination rates and a shift to private market sales.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 23, 2023

Croda Pharma has entered a strategic collaboration deal with Botanical Solution Inc (BSI) to expedite the production of sustainable pharmaceutical-grade vaccine adjuvant QS-21. The plentiful supply of QS-21 enables the production of next-generation adjuvant systems for new vaccine development.”

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Pharmaceutical Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Indian company Bharat Biotech International has secured approval from Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) under Restricted Use in Emergency Situation for its intranasal Covid-19 vaccine, iNCOVACC (BBV154), for usage in people aged 18 years and older. It is formulated to permit intranasal delivery via nasal drops.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 31, 2022

After decades of setbacks, the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine field has bounced back with positive Phase III trial results in older adults. There are currently five players in the race, with vaccines in Phase III of development from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) , Pfizer , Johnson & Johnson , Moderna and Bavarian Nordic.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2022

India’s Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has granted approval for Bharat Biotech’s BBV154 vaccine for treating Covid-19. BBV154 is claimed to be the first intra-nasal vaccine for Covid-19 in the world.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 13, 2023

The expanded licence will include the development of vaccines and therapeutic proteins beyond Covid-19 for human and animal health markets in Africa. During the Covid-19 pandemic, vaccination rates of many countries in Africa were significantly trailing the rest of the world.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

AUGUST 1, 2022

Moderna has entered a new supply contract with the US Government to deliver 66 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine booster candidate, mRNA-1273.222. The contract comprises a $1.74bn award to produce and supply these vaccine doses and options to further procure up to 234 million additional doses of the company’s booster candidates.

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Bio Pharma Dive

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

study participant led to a worldwide pause in vaccinations, the country's drugs regulator and an independent committee allowed testing to resume. Six days after a worrisome illness in a U.K.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an amendment to the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Pfi z er and BioNTech’s Omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted 5-adapted bivalent Covid-19 vaccine for usage in children aged six months to four years. 5-adapted bivalent vaccine also provided support for the authorisation. .

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 1, 2022

Some months after the first Covid-19 vaccines became available, the World Health Organization (WHO) set a target of vaccinating 70% of each country’s population by the end of June 2022. The post Magazine-How delays derailed Covid-19 vaccination in Africa appeared first on Pharmaceutical Technology.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 24, 2022

Novavax has obtained emergency use authorization (EUA) for its Covid-19 vaccine, Nuvaxovid (NVX-CoV2373), from the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration for use in people of the age 18 years and above. The protein-based vaccine is engineered from the genetic sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus’ initial strain.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 23, 2023

Malaria vaccine-drug combo achieves 'dramatic' results Phil.Taylor Wed, 23/08/2023 - 10:40 Bookmark this

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 17, 2023

Health Canada has accepted Pfizer Canada’s new drug submission for a bivalent respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for review. The vaccine will be used to prevent lower respiratory tract disease and severe lower respiratory tract disease caused by RSV in adults aged 60 and above.

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World of DTC Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

You need to ask yourself why in the hell Pfizer’s CEO would say that their vaccine is 90% effective when there is a lot more testing and review of data needed. However, there’s still a long way to go before researchers can be certain that this vaccine is indeed as effective as promised. The media has not been helpful.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

South African bio-pharmaceutical firm Biovac and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in South Korea have signed a licencing and technology transfer agreement for developing and manufacturing an oral cholera vaccine (OCV).

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STAT News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

A Marburg fever outbreak in Equatorial Guinea is galvanizing efforts to test drugs and vaccines for a virus that currently has none. But every day counts, warned experts who gathered virtually on Tuesday to try to chart a course for the work.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Defense have modified their existing agreement with Novavax to secure additional doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, Adjuvanted (NVX-CoV2373). million additional doses of its Covid-19 vaccine. Under the modified deal, Novavax will deliver up to 1.5

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 8, 2023

The European Commission (EC) has granted marketing authorisation for GSK’s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine, Arexvy, for adults aged 60 years and above. The vaccine is indicated for active immunisation to prevent RSV-related lower respiratory tract disease (LRTD) in older adults.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

New studies have demonstrated that Vaxxinity’s vaccine VXX-401 reproducibly lowers low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) in non-human primates. A cholesterol vaccine like VXX-401 may provide a cost-effective and widely deployable solution that could potentially benefit hundreds of millions of people at risk.

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Fierce Pharma

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Pfizer is cutting roughly 200 positions at its Kalamazoo site following a review of demand for its COVID-19 vaccine and antiviral Comirnaty and Paxlovid. Pfizer’s plunging COVID-19 product demand has spurred a companywide cost-cutting campaign, with nearly 200 jobs now on the chopping block in Michigan.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 1, 2024

Our preclinical results suggest that our vaccines may significantly outperform them, to transform care for future cancer patients.” It will also support development of Infinitopes’ lead asset, a novel cancer vaccine called ITOP1, which is scheduled to commence a Phase I/IIa study in first line cancer patients in the third quarter of 2024.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 2, 2024

A study led by the University of Oxford has successfully investigated human immunity against Covid-19 in people who already have antibodies, with the aim of advancing future vaccines and treatments. The results suggest that previous infection, together with vaccination, offers strong protection against the original Covid-19 strain.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The University of Queensland’s re-engineered clamp platform has produced a vaccine that is equally safe and virus-neutralising as an approved Covid vaccine considered among the best in its class. He said: “CEPI is striving towards vaccines being developed within 100 days of a new virus emerging: a goal known as the 100 Days Mission.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 26, 2024

A clinical trial of a personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma patients has been launched in the UK. In addition to encoding the target antigens, mRNA vaccines also provide adjuvant properties that amplify the immune response. in the combination arm and 62.2%

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines Inch Towards Regulatory Approval. Over the past month or so, investigators have been amassing data on SARS-CoV-2 candidate vaccines as quickly as possible and some of that data is making its way—ever so much more slowly—through regulatory agencies for official scrutiny.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 3, 2023

Missing crucial doses of medicines and vaccines could become a thing of the past thanks to Rice University bioengineers' next-level technology for making time-released drugs.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 15, 2024

Naobios has signed a partnership agreement with Sumagen, a Korean-Canadian biotechnology company developing an HIV-1 vaccine candidate, to manage the manufacturing process during its Phase II clinical trials. At the end of 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that approximately 39 million people were living with HIV.

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STAT News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

An experimental cancer vaccine being developed by the biotechnology firm Moderna and the drug giant Merck reduced the risk that melanoma would return after surgery or that patients would die by 44%, the company said.

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Fierce Pharma

MARCH 27, 2024

For various reasons, pharma firms often favor distribution pacts rather than relying on local subsidiaries to market their drugs. |

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XTalks

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has been pumping large sums of cash into expanding its vaccine manufacturing operations and today, it announced an investment of €250 ($272 million) into building a new unit for freeze-drying vaccines at its Wavre campus in Belgium. The British drugmaker expects to produce tens of millions of vaccine doses a year.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 16, 2024

Dr Masaru Kanekiyo On Tuesday 6 February at 11.30am, the speaker will be Masaru Kanekiyo, DVM, PhD, Investigator and Chief of Molecular Immunoengineering Section of the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), NIH. See the full programme and register your interest in this event.

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Fierce Pharma

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

WuXi Vaccines launched its first standalone vaccine contract manufacturing facility in Suzhou. With the plant, the company adds drug substance and drug product capacity for projects in various stages of development.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 18, 2024

For the first time, a controlled human infection model for tuberculosis (TB) has been developed and could help with the future development of TB vaccines. The team states that it’s the first step towards establishing a challenge model that can be used to test new vaccines for TB.

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