Cancer Research UK and CRIS fund lung cancer vaccine research
Pharmaceutical Technology
MARCH 25, 2024
Cancer Research UK and the CRIS Cancer Foundation have awarded a £1.7m ($2.1m) grant for developing the lung cancer vaccine LungVax.
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Pharmaceutical Technology
MARCH 25, 2024
Cancer Research UK and the CRIS Cancer Foundation have awarded a £1.7m ($2.1m) grant for developing the lung cancer vaccine LungVax.
Pharmaceutical Technology
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The Physiology and Medicine Prize has gone to two researchers whose work laid the foundation for Pfizer and Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines.
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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog
MAY 14, 2024
A Subject Expert Committee (SEC), which advices the national drug regulator on approvals and clinical trials related to Covid-19 vaccines, has recommended grant of permission to Serum Institute of India (SII) for Omicron XBB 1.5 The vaccine variant […]
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Pharmaceutical Technology
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SK bioscience and the Peter Doherty Institute have signed a research collaboration deal for the development of a influenza vaccine.
Pharmaceutical Technology
DECEMBER 22, 2023
As the number of patients with cancers continues to grow globally, research into personalised cancer vaccines is vital.
STAT News
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
WASHINGTON — Researchers studying next-generation vaccines to fight an evolving Covid-19 threat are running into problems getting existing vaccines to use in their research. Right now, Pfizer isn’t sharing its vaccines for research purposes, a spokesperson confirmed to STAT.
Pharmaceutical Technology
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
Only a few weeks into the new year, the prospect of getting a successful advanced HIV vaccine shrank after the discontinuation of yet another late-stage trial. On January 18, Janssen, a Johnson & Johnson (J&J) subsidiary, stated that its vaccine was not effective in preventing HIV infections.
Pharmaceutical Technology
MAY 11, 2023
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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog
MAY 13, 2024
The Subject Expert Committee (SEC), which advises the Central drug regulator regarding clinical trials and approvals of drugs, has recommended approval for additional indication of Zydus Lifesciences’ inactivated trivalent influenza vaccine in children above six months with clinical trial waiver subject to condition.
Drug Discovery World
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UK researchers have highlighted the importance of continued surveillance of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants and vaccine performance as the virus continues to evolve. The researchers found that both vaccines generated neutralising antibodies against the most recent strain of Omicron, BA.2.86.
Pharmaceutical Technology
APRIL 14, 2023
Ghana’s Food and Drug Authority (FDA) has approved R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine in children aged 5 to 36 months, marking the first regulatory clearance for the University of Oxford-developed vaccine in any country in the world. Children between the ages of five and 36 months are at highest risk of death from malaria.
Bio Pharma Dive
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Bio Pharma Dive
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The Danish company scrapped a vaccine in Phase 1 testing and will exit oncology altogether, focusing instead on infectious disease research.
AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog
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Using viruses that infect bacteria to detect proteins sprouted by a notorious parasite, scientists have honed in on possible vaccine targets for schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease that currently affects an estimated 600 million people worldwide, causing 280,000 deaths per year.
pharmaphorum
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Rethinking Clinical Trials
AUGUST 22, 2023
In an article published this month in Clinical Trials , researchers from the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory’s Distributed Research Network share opportunities for conducting pragmatic trials embedded in health insurance plans. For more, see the Distributed Research Network page on the Living Textbook or read the full article.
AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog
JANUARY 22, 2024
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is now developing a heat-tolerant vaccine that can offer protection against different strains of SARS-CoV-2 – both current and future variants. The research […]
Pharmaceutical Technology
JUNE 6, 2023
Oragenics has secured funding from the Canadian bioresearch consortium CQDM to develop a variant-agnostic protein antigen for use in its Covid-19 intranasal vaccine. The project is a partnership with Inspirevax and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC).
AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog
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Drug Discovery World
MAY 13, 2024
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Pharmaceutical Technology
MARCH 20, 2023
RVAC Medicines has announced a research collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) for the discovery and development of mRNA vaccines. The mRNA vaccine candidates will help reduce the chances of autoimmune responses that might lead to allergic conditions or serious autoimmune diseases.
AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog
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An experimental vaccine that aims to slow down or prevent the progression of Alzheimer’s disease has been trialed in mice with promising early results. Mice engineered with genes that put them at greater risk of an Alzheimer’s-like disease had fewer amyloid plaques following the vaccine.
Drug Discovery World
MAY 15, 2024
Researchers have developed a new vaccine technology that can provide protection against a broad range of coronaviruses with potential for future disease outbreaks – including ones we don’t know about yet. Building protective vaccines before a pandemic emerges “We don’t have to wait for new coronaviruses to emerge.
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.
Bio Pharma Dive
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The newly established initiative, which consists of a research center and an accelerator, will focus on developing vaccines for tuberculosis, influenza and group A streptococcus.
AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog
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Medical Xpress
MAY 1, 2023
People who refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19 had low levels of social trust, weak attachments to the rule of law, and were less willing to honor collective commitments to the greater good, according to Cornell research published April 22 in npj Vaccines.
Pharma Mirror
APRIL 24, 2022
and NEC Corporation, today announced the execution of a strategic research collaboration agreement for the development of a novel hepatitis B therapeutic vaccine. NEC OncoImmunity, an NEC subsidiary that specializes in artificial intelligence-driven biotechnology, is also participating in this research collaboration.
Pharmaceutical Technology
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
XtalPi has entered a strategic partnership with CK Life Sciences for artificial intelligence (AI)-driven tumour vaccine research and development (R&D). Under the collaboration, the companies will utilise their capabilities to co-develop a new AI tumour vaccine R&D platform.
Pharmaceutical Technology
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GreenLight Biosciences has entered a partnership with the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the development of Covid-19 vaccines, which offer broader protection against new variants and with durable effects. They intend to develop vaccines that provide lasting immune responses compared to existing vaccines.
AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog
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Pharmaceutical Technology
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Sanofi has signed an agreement with the Queensland Government in Australia to establish a $190m (A$280m) research facility in Brisbane. With the establishment of this Translational Science Hub, Queensland is set to become an international messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine hub.
AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog
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The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering, has designed a new method to deliver a vaccine candidate for tuberculosis (TB). The research involves using spherical vesicles secreted by bacteria coated on gold nanoparticles which can then be delivered to the immune cells.
pharmaphorum
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Scientists in the US say they have developed an mRNA-based vaccine that encompasses all 20 known subtypes of influenza that could form the basis of a future universal jab. The goals of the programme are also similar to those in COVID vaccine development.
Drug Discovery World
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Velocity Clinical Research
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Velocity has introduced the Vaccine Council to Accelerate Research Excellence (CARE). This council will bring world-class operational, patient recruitment, and trial conduct oversight to all Velocity sites conducting vaccine studies in the U.S. and Europe.
Drug Discovery World
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The round was heavily oversubscribed, also drawing in funds from Cancer Research Horizons, Cancer Research Institute, CRIS Cancer Foundation, Kindred Capital, Manta Ray, Martlet Capital, Meltwind Advisory, Saras Capital, Wilbe Capital, and expert angel investors. seed financing appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).
Scienmag
JULY 8, 2022
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Scienmag
JANUARY 28, 2022
ATLANTA—An influenza vaccine administered through the nose and constructed with nanoparticles that enhance immune response offers strong protection against different influenza virus strains, according to researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.
Scienmag
JANUARY 6, 2021
Funding for device that gives vaccine and monitors response Credit: IMPACT, Swansea University Researchers at Swansea University have received £230,000 to develop the world’s first smart vaccine device that will both deliver the COVID-19 vaccine and measure its efficacy through monitoring the body’s associated response.
XTalks
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Medical Xpress
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After helping to develop and test new mRNA technologies for COVID-19 vaccines, University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers and scientists are turning their attention to utilizing this innovative technology to ward off other infectious diseases like malaria and influenza.
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