pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The South African coronavirus variant may cut the effectiveness of Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine by around two thirds, according to a laboratory study. Mutations may alter neutralisation by affecting spike function rather than antigen response and its also unclear from this study how the T-cell response is affected.

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 10, 2021

A laboratory study suggests Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty could be effective against a Brazilian variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus – known as P.1 The response to the South African variant was a little lower but still “robust”, they note, and that correlates with earlier findings on that variant reported last month.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

A research group from the National Institutes of Health has successfully developed a vaccine against Sudan virus (SUDV) based on the licensed Ebola virus (EBOV) vaccine. SUDV, identified in 1976, is one of the four viruses known to cause human Ebolavirus disease.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 22, 2022

By Courtney Ferrebee, PhD, Field Applications Scientist, Taconic Biosciences. As a result, researchers are striving to continually improve immuno-oncology approaches using the patient’s own immune cells to combat tumours. Furthermore, CAR-M strategies could be applied to therapeutic vaccines in the same way as DC-based therapies.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Sebastian Jaeger, PhD, Senior Scientist, ADCs & Targeted NBE Therapeutics, Merck Healthcare KGaA, on: ‘Evaluation of Fcab-drug conjugates as a novel antibody-based format for targeted drug delivery’. Mireille Vankemmelbeke, PhD, Principal Scientist, Biodiscovery, Scancell, on: ‘Glycan and novel targets for bispecific cancer therapy’.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Cancer is a complex heterogenous multistep disease characterised by uncontrolled cell proliferation combined with a dysregulated immune response. A healthy immune system is naturally primed to eliminate malignant and abnormal cells through a synchronised and dynamic interplay between adaptive and innate immunity.

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