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Kaiser Permanente Joins Late-Stage Trial for Pfizer and BioNTech’s Lead COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

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and BioNTech’s lead vaccine candidate in a Phase III trial being conducted at sites in California and Oregon. The company announced that it commenced the Phase III clinical trial to evaluate the investigational COVID-19 vaccine this week. Related: Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 Vaccine Shows Positive Early Trial Results.

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Biopharma Update on the Novel Coronavirus: October 27

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Novavax will present data from an ongoing Phase I/II clinical trial, including new Phase II reactogenicity data from its COVID-19 vaccine candidate. CoV2373 on Friday during the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) meeting. They expect to launch a Phase III trial of the drug in the first quarter of 2021. .

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Pfizer and BioNTech Advance COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy With Study Start of Next-Generation Vaccine Candidate Based on Enhanced Spike Protein Design

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(NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) today announced that the companies have initiated a randomized, active-controlled, observer-blind, Phase 2 study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and immune response of an enhanced COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccine candidate at a 30 µg dose level. Emergency Use Authorization . has a fever.

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Unshackling TP53 in leukaemia with a novel combo; Merus receives funds for cancer research pact; Vera Therapeutics bags $80M; Gritstone appends COVID-19 to the pipeline.

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Vera Therapeutics bags USD 80 Million for trials. Vera Therapeutics has raised USD 80 million to take a drug licensed from Merck KGaA into a phase 2b kidney disease clinical trial. The drug, atacicept, has flunked multiple autoimmune clinical trials, but Vera contemplates that it is a prospect in IgA nephropathy.

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FDA Action Alert: Merck, Aurinia and Amgen

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The NDA was built on data from the Phase III VICTORIA trial. The NDA was supported by results from two pivotal trials, Phase III AURORA and Phase II AURA-LV. By inhibiting calcineurin, the drug blocks IL-2 expression and T-cell mediated immune responses. HFrEF was formerly known as systolic heart failure.

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INOVIO Announces Publication of Phase 1 Data from its COVID-19 DNA Vaccine Candidate, INO-4800 in The Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine

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Joseph Kim , President and CEO of INOVIO, said, “We are very pleased to share peer-reviewed Phase 1 clinical data for INO-4800 published in The Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine , and are grateful for the support of all participants and investigator staff involved in the clinical trial.” mg and 2.0 mg and 2.0 The 1.0

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Top 5 Most Promising FDA New Drug Approvals Expected in the Second Half of 2024

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Some treatments already on the market have grabbed additional approvals in 2024, including Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy (semaglutide) for cardiovascular risk reduction, Dupixent (dupilumab) for eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) in young children and Xolair (omalizumab) for food allergies. Karuna also has ongoing long-term extension trials.

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