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Astellas and Sutro partner to develop immunostimulatory ADCs

Pharmaceutical Technology

Astellas Pharma and Sutro Biopharma have entered a global, strategic partnership and licencing agreement to discover and develop new immunostimulatory antibody-drug conjugates (iADCs). An iADC merges an antibody with a small molecule compound that elicits immunogenic cell death, and an immune-activating molecule.

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Celltrion’s Avtozma Receives FDA Approval, Making it the Third Actemra Biosimilar to Hit the Market

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The FDAs decision was based on comprehensive data demonstrating biosimilarity between Avtozma and the reference product, Actemra. That was followed by a full approval for the same patient subset in December 2022, making it the first FDA-approved monoclonal antibody to treat COVID-19.

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Malaysia approves additional indication for Astrazeneca’s Evusheld

Pharmaceutical Technology

It will also be used for the treatment of people who are not likely to have an adequate immune response to Covid-19 vaccination or for people who are not recommended for Covid-19 vaccination. Evusheld (formerly AZD7442) is a combination of two long-acting antibodies, tixagevimab (AZD8895) and cilgavimab (AZD1061).

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China’s NMPA accepts IND for SinoMab BioScience’s SM17 to treat asthma

Pharmaceutical Technology

The Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has accepted an investigational new drug application (IND) for SinoMab BioScience’s SM17 to treat asthma. It can suppress Th2 immune responses by binding to IL-17RB on Type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s).

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COVID-19 neutralising antibody tests – an integrated approach

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Nina Garrett, R&D director at Abingdon Health discusses the key role antibody testing is playing in the pandemic and how an integrated approach with vaccines could help normal life resume. The three most common types of testing, PCR testing, antigen testing and antibody testing, have quickly become common terms in everyone’s vocabulary.

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Team studies immune response, proteins in blood of young adults who develop rare complication after COVID vaccination

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In a new study by researchers from Mass General Brigham's founding members, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, a team extensively investigated the immune response of 16 adolescents and young adults who developed myocarditis after receipt of the COVID mRNA vaccine.

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World Pneumonia Day 2024: New Treatments and Innovations

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Thus, to address drug-resistant infections, pharma and biotech companies are developing novel treatments such as bacteriophage therapies, immunomodulators and monoclonal antibodies. Monoclonal Antibody Therapies Monoclonal antibodies are gaining traction as targeted treatments for bacterial and viral infections.

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