Tue.Jan 26, 2021

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Sanofi, in unusual move, to help Pfizer, BioNTech make coronavirus vaccine doses

Bio Pharma Dive

The French drugmaker, having hit delays with its own coronavirus shot, agreed to manufacture over 100 million doses of Pfizer and BioNTech's vaccine for supply in Europe.

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Is pharma digital ready?

World of DTC Marketing

SUMMARY: Digital is a way of thinking; it’s not a tactic. To many going digital can mean a ton of opportunities but if you move too quickly you can lose sight of the end goal. Is your organization digital ready? It’s a question that I ask all of my clients at a time when more people are going online for health information. But let’s start at the beginning… 1ne: What’s the purpose of your product website?

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J&J says study data on coronavirus vaccine due 'early next week'

Bio Pharma Dive

Results from the large Phase 3 trial are highly anticipated. If proven effective, J&J's shot could provide much-needed reinforcements to a constrained immunization effort.

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Inria and InSilicoTrials partner up on a European project leveraging simulation for cardiac devices and drugs

Pharma Mirror

Inria Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée is leading SimCardioTest, a new EU project funded with 8 million Euros that will provide insight into designing new predictive tools in cardiac pathologies. Among the ten partners, the rising startup InSilicoTrials. The search for new drugs and devices is particularly difficult in the case of cardiovascular disease, which remains the leading cause of death worldwide, with 18 million deaths each year according to World Health Organization estimates.

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Unlocking Excellence: How Catalent Is Transforming Japan’s Clinical Research

Planning on running clinical trials in Japan? How can you reliably supply these studies? Discover Catalent’s clinical supply packaging facility in Shiga, Japan. Strategically located between Tokyo and Osaka, and one of largest in Japan, this 6,000 square meter facility offers comprehensive services including primary and secondary clinical packaging and labelling, comparator sourcing, cold chain storage, local and global distribution, local language support and white glove service to support stud

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Can new Regeneron, Lilly data move the needle for COVID-19 antibody drugs?

Bio Pharma Dive

The results show that drugs from both companies can help prevent or treat COVID-19 when given at the right time. But that won't mean much if barriers to use remain high.

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Inria and InSilicoTrials partner up on a European project leveraging simulation for cardiac devices and drugs

Pharma Mirror

Inria Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée is leading SimCardioTest, a new EU project funded with 8 million Euros that will provide insight into designing new predictive tools in cardiac pathologies. Among the ten partners, the rising startup InSilicoTrials. The search for new drugs and devices is particularly difficult in the case of cardiovascular disease, which remains the leading cause of death worldwide, with 18 million deaths each year according to World Health Organization estimates.

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How Different Crimes Can Affect Your Nursing License in Georgia

Pharma Mirror

Navigating your way to a career in the medical field is not easy. You may have spent late nights studying for exams and long hours working in a medical institute. But, you are finally here about to get your nursing license in the state of Georgia. When applying for a nursing license or getting your old one renewed, you might face some trouble if the background check doesn’t show up clean.

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Biden Pledges to Speed Flow of Vaccines to the States

NY Times

President Biden said the amount of coronavirus vaccines reaching the states would rise next week and a deal was near to provide enough shots to vaccinate nearly all Americans by the end of summer.

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AstraZeneca and University of Oxford dismiss German media claims about vaccine efficacy in elderly

BioPharma Reporter

AstraZeneca along with its scientific partners at the University of Oxford have rejected German media reports that their vaccine against COVID-19 had low efficacy in people aged over 65.

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UPDATE: Bomb Threat Forces Evacuation of AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing Plant

BioSpace

Police have sealed off the area, according to the report. Few details were available, but eye witnesses said a robot was investigating a suspicious package found at the plant.

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The New Age of Decentralized Clinical Trials

White paper that delves into the complex topic of Decentralized Clinical Trials and how to master them within the confines of FDA Regulations

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Novartis hails digital strategy as profits hold up during pandemic

pharmaphorum

Novartis has said that its investment in digital technology has helped it to ride out the worst of the pandemic, although sales of some of its newly-launched products have been affected by a fall in prescriptions and hospital visits. The big Swiss pharma still managed to grow sales in Q4 compared with the same period last year, with sales increasing a reported 3% to $12.8 billion and profits growing 2% to just over $3 billion.

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J.P. Morgan: Will Biotech’s Virtual 2021 Launch Become the New Reality?

BioSpace

At the annual J.P. Morgan conference, the biotech industry launched its encore to a wildly successful 2020 – virtually. And, as is becoming the common scenario, attendees found both pros and cons to our new (temporary?) reality.

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Doctors warn pandemic has pushed lung cancer services back 20 years

pharmaphorum

Governments must act to restore the damage done to lung cancer services during the pandemic in order to reduce further avoidable deaths, according to a report drawn up as part of this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos. The report , Learning Lessons from Across Europe – Prioritising Lung Cancer after COVID-19, highlights how lung cancer progress in diagnosis has been pushed back, with further impact on treatment likely, the longer the pandemic continues.

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COVID-19 Vaccines Only Tip of the Iceberg for These Leaders

BioSpace

Much of the attention on Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca for the last few months has been on their COVID-19 vaccine efforts.

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Roles and Responsibilities of Specialized Clinical Supply Experts

When selecting a clinical supply provider, consideration often focuses upon the manufacturing, packaging, storage and distribution capabilities available that will, at face-value, be sufficient to meet the needs of the sponsor and their trial. However, there are human-based and knowledge-driven factors that are often overlooked that go beyond these basic physical capabilities and are integral to the development and delivery of high performing clinical supply chains.

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WHO says Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses can be up to six weeks apart

BioPharma Reporter

Advice published by the World Health Organization today says the two doses of the Moderna vaccine should be administered 28 days apart; but this interval can be extended up to 42 days if necessary.

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Vir and GSK Team Up with Eli Lilly for Double Monoclonal Antibody Study

BioSpace

Vir Biotechnology, Eli Lilly and GlaxoSmithKline struck a three-way collaborative deal to evaluate its investigational monoclonal antibody, VIR-7831, in combination with Lilly’s bamlanivimab in low-risk patients with mild to moderate COVID-19.

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EU Commission frustrated with 'lack of clarity' from AstraZeneca over vaccine deliveries

BioPharma Reporter

EU health commissioner, Stella Kyriakides, last night again expressed dissatisfaction with the responses the EU executive has received from AstraZeneca over the company's announcement there would be significant shortfalls in the supply of its COVID-19 vaccine to the EU.

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Cancer Startup Nuvalent Launches With $50 Million Series A Financing

BioSpace

The Series A financing will help fuel Nuvalent’s research and development efforts for a portfolio of innovative small molecule kinase inhibitors for programs in non-small cell lung cancer.

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The New Age of Decentralized Clinical Trials

This new white paper defines and details the impact of Decentralized Clinical Trials on the Pharmaceutical industry and how the impact can be measured along with steps companies can take to ensure adoption.

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Ancient indigenous New Mexican community knew how to sustainably coexist with wildfire

Scienmag

Native people lived in flammable landscapes of the American West for millenia Credit: Christopher Roos DALLAS (SMU) – Wildfires are the enemy when they threaten homes in California and elsewhere. But a new study led by SMU suggests that people living in fire-prone places can learn to manage fire as an ally to prevent dangerous […].

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BioSpace Launches 2021 Hotbed Maps to Highlight Thriving Life Sciences Clusters

BioSpace

See the companies featured in our 2021 maps, explore the territories that are thriving in the life sciences industry, research leading employers and search for relevant jobs on BioSpace.

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Harpy eagles could be under greater threat than previously thought

Scienmag

Credit: Everton Miranda/University of KwaZulu?Natal Harpy eagles are considered by many to be among the planet’s most spectacular birds. They are also among its most elusive, generally avoiding areas disturbed by human activity – therefore already having vanished from portions of its range – and listed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature […].

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UK Offers Genomics Expertise to Help Nations ID New SARS-CoV-2 Variants

BioSpace

On Tuesday, the U.K. offered its genomics expertise to identify emerging variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to countries that lack the resources to make such identifications.

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Accelerating Clinical Supply Through Integrated Drug Development

As the development pipeline for new drugs continues to grow, biopharmaceutical companies are re-evaluating how to best manage and balance resources across an increasing number of development projects and complex clinical trials. There are two approaches that can be used to speed a drug from development to clinic faster: timeline compression and parallel processing, but only one that considers the benefits of integrating clinical supply into the overall drug development process.

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Psychologists track child psychopathology from before birth

Scienmag

Credit: Creative Commons via Upsplash Michigan State University researchers have received a $3.8 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Development to advance research on the effects of prenatal and postnatal stress on child psychopathology. The Prenatal Stress Study, which first began in 2016, is the first study of its kind. The […].

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Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine works effectively against variants

Pharma Times

Lab tests evaluated vaccine's efficacy against UK and South African variants

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Earth Leadership Program announces 2021 cohort of 21 leading sustainability scientists

Scienmag

Credit: Earth Leadership Program BOULDER, CO: In the midst of cascading crises from climate change to biodiversity loss and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Earth Leadership Program – the global successor to the renowned Leopold Leadership Program, now in partnership with Future Earth – has announced its 2021-22 North American cohort. The Earth Leadership Program […].

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Pfizer’s RA Hopeful Fails to Meet Co-Primary Endpoint in Safety Study

BioSpace

Pfizer announced in a statement on Wednesday that the prespecified non-inferiority criteria for a post-marketing safety study of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) drug XELJANZ® (tofacitinib) were not met.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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Real-world Lab ‘Robotic Artificial Intelligence’ to be established at KIT

Scienmag

Experiencing Artificial Intelligence through humanoid robots: Focus on exchange between society and research Credit: KIT Artificial intelligence, AI for short, is subject of imagination, films, and stories, but it also is reality. Superhuman capacity of AI is obvious in games as well as in image and language processing, in autonomous driving, in digital language assistants, […].

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Veeva Systems converts to a public benefit corporation

Outsourcing Pharma

While the change signifies the life-sciences solutions firmâs commitment to help customers and patients, day-to-day functions will remain much the same.

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Can dogs rapidly learn words?

Scienmag

Dogs can learn new words after hearing them only four times Credit: Photo by Claudia Fugazza A new study found that talented dogs can learn new words after hearing them only four times. While preliminary evidence seems to show that most dogs do not learn words (i.e. names of objects), unless eventually very extensively trained, […].

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AbbVie's Rinvoq bags two new EU approvals

Pharma Times

Oral JAK inhibitor approved for psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis

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The New Clinical Trial Supply Chain: Resilient, Flexible, and Patient-Centric

The global landscape of clinical trials is rapidly changing as studies become more complex. An increasing number of sponsors are seeking enhanced flexibility in their supply chains to address a variety of clinical supply challenges, including patient demand and reducing delays. Demand-led supply and direct-to-patient distribution are next-generation solutions that are helping to meet these growing needs, allowing for more streamlined processes and patient-centric studies.