pharmaphorum

MARCH 4, 2021

UK chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a budget loaded with initiatives designed to kick-start the UK’s economy as it recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, with vaccine development, pharma and life sciences playing a key role. This will provide a major incentive to modernise, digitise and grow companies across the country.

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XTalks

APRIL 2, 2021

Pfizer released new COVID-19 vaccine trial results this week from its ongoing clinical studies, which include data showing that its COVID-19 mRNA vaccine is 100 percent effective in children between the ages of 12 and 15 and has a 91 percent efficacy against variants with protection lasting at least six months.

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XTalks

MARCH 2, 2021

As the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) handed out an emergency use authorization (EUA) to Janssen’s COVID-19 vaccine over the weekend — making it the third authorized COVID-19 vaccine in the US — many people became laser-focused on the 66 percent average efficacy of the single-dose shot.

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

France-based biotech Valneva has won approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its chikungunya vaccine Ixchiq for the prevention of infection from the chikungunya virus. The vaccine is approved for adults 18 years of age and older who are at increased risk of exposure to the virus.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Vaccines are our number one weapon in the fight against infectious diseases, but their development has historically involved a long and complex process taking up to a decade. Before COVID-19, Merck held the record for the fastest modern vaccine ever developed. mRNA’s potential for rapid vaccine delivery.

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Drug Discovery World

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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XTalks

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The cell-based tests are designed to identify specific T cells that are activated in response to a pathogen — which in this case would be SARS-CoV-2. Traditional antibody tests for uncovering past infections involve detection of antigen-specific antibodies produced during an immune response against a pathogen.

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