Scienmag

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

million people, with no vaccine in sight. However, a new study by researchers at The Wistar Institute, an international biomedical research leader in cancer, immunology, infectious disease, and vaccine development, takes a promising step in the direction of developing […]. PHILADELPHIA — (Feb.

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JUNE 30, 2021

Just a few months after starting clinical trials of its nasal spray vaccine for COVID-19, US biotech Altimmune is abandoning the project, saying that it generated weaker than expected immune responses in a phase 1 trial. . The post Altimmune ditches nasal COVID vaccine on weak trial data appeared first on.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In 2021, a group of scientists led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian reported that the Moderna mRNA vaccine and a protein-based vaccine candidate containing an adjuvant, a substance that enhances immune responses, elicited durable neutralizing antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 (..)

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 23, 2021

A team led by scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine, Scripps Research and the University of Chicago has identified an important site of vulnerability on influenza viruses—a site that future influenza vaccines and antibody therapies should be able to target to prevent or treat infections by a broad set of influenza strains.

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Scienmag

JULY 19, 2022

Yale scientists have developed a novel Omicron-specific mRNA vaccine that offers superior immune protection against two viral subvariants than standard mRNA vaccines. The new vaccine, called Omnivax, increased neutralizing antibody response against the BA.1 New Haven, Conn. The […].

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 7, 2022

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced the opening of a global biomanufacturing hub located in South Korea to provide training to low- and middle-income countries seeking to produce vaccines and other biologics, such as insulin and monoclonal antibodies. . of individuals in low-income countries have received their first dose.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The information contained within the download document is designed for pharmaceutical executives, developers, research scientists and associates, regulatory solutions consultants, and any other individual involved in API biologics production in the pharmaceutical industry.

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Scienmag

MAY 12, 2021

Scripps Research scientists propose an innovative vaccine approach to protect against a troublesome family of viruses that present a major global health risk LA JOLLA, CA–Scientists at Scripps Research have unveiled a new Ebola virus vaccine design, which they say has several advantages over standard vaccine approaches for Ebola and related viruses (..)

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Scienmag

JANUARY 10, 2021

January 11, 2021) – To build better vaccines, scientists want to know more about how our bodies make adequate numbers of effective, durable antibodies against the influenza virus. Credit: Kim Ratliff, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The University of Oxford has regularly appeared in our updates since July 2020, as its team of researchers leads an ongoing clinical trial for the Covid-19 vaccine. More recently, the university has released news of its collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific as it looks to discover an immune Covid-19 response pre- and post-vaccination.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 15, 2021

Even as several safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines are being administered to people worldwide, scientists are still hard at work developing different vaccine strategies that could provide even stronger or longer-lasting immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 22, 2021

As research developments into RNA vaccines help scientists accelerate drug candidates to arm the immune system against coronavirus, Pharma IQ ’s Keeping tabs on Covid-19 update returns with news from some of the biotechnology innovators leading the fight against the global pandemic.

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The Pharma Data

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

An expert review by a world group of scientists, including some at the WHO and FDA, concludes that, even for the delta variant, vaccine efficacy against severe COVID is so high that booster doses for the overall population aren’t appropriate at this stage within the pandemic.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The first peer-reviewed study in North America examining the timing between the first and second doses of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines shows that a longer dose interval leads to a stronger immune response. mRNA vaccines include the Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty vaccine and the Moderna Spikevax vaccine.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 24, 2021

Although this represents a doubling in comparison to an initial report following the first wave in May and June, the overall seroprevalence – the number of people with antibodies, which suggests a previous COVID-19 infection – remains very low and Canada remains a long way from herd immunity,” says CITF Executive Director Tim Evans.

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Sciensano

JULY 5, 2023

Vaccin COVID-19 Event type: symposium Audience: general public health professionals journalist PhD students policy makers scientists Description: Sciensano is pleased to invite you to its BelCoVac symposium, which will focus on studies on the COVID vaccine in Belgium.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Inovio Pharma’s plan to start pivotal testing of its COVID-19 vaccine has been delayed by FDA requests for more information, sending its shares into a swift decline. Inovio’s vaccine takes the form of a DNA plasmid coding for the full length of the spike or ‘s’ glycoprotein antigen of SARS-CoV-2, the vaccine that causes COVID-19.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 16, 2021

The study assessed cynomolgus macaques vaccinated with 12µg of either the first or second-generation vaccine candidate. Higher antibody neutralizing capacity was observed with CV2CoV across all selected variants, including the Beta, Delta and Lambda variants.

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Delveinsight

AUGUST 27, 2020

Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine triggers an immune response in older adults. Moderna showed robust phase 1 results for its COVID-19 vaccine in adults up to 55 last month. It is now following up with data from a small group of older adults, and they look positive. White fat, in contrast, can build up and cause obesity.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Northwestern Medicine scientists have shown for the first time that coronavirus vaccines and prior coronavirus infections can provide broad immunity against other, similar coronaviruses. The findings build a rationale for universal coronavirus vaccines that could prove useful in the face of future epidemics.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

November 16, 2020 — An independent data and safety monitoring board (DSMB) overseeing the Phase 3 trial of the investigational COVID-19 vaccine known as mRNA-1273 reviewed trial data and shared its interim analysis with the trial oversight group on Nov. The interim analysis comprised 95 cases of symptomatic COVID-19 among volunteers.

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Delveinsight

AUGUST 6, 2020

Zydus starts phase 2 COVID-19 vaccine trial after clearing safety test. Zydus Cadila has finished a phase 1 clinical trial of its COVID-19 vaccine ZyCoV-D, setting it up to move straight into a 1,000-subject phase 2 study. Zydus has only said that the vaccine was well tolerated by people who received it in the first phase of the trial.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 13, 2021

13, 2021 — A single-shot COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson has shown very strong results in early clinical trials, potentially providing a significant boost to U.S. vaccination efforts. The new vaccine remains stable for a time in the refrigerator. WEDNESDAY, Jan. 13 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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The Pharma Data

JULY 6, 2021

If a virus is disease-causing, the right mutation can allow the virus to escape the immune response by changing the viral pieces the immune system uses to recognize the virus as a threat, pieces scientists call epitopes. These epitopes could then be used in a vaccine to train T cells, providing protective immunity.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Study May Lead to Biomarkers for Tailoring COVID-19 Vaccines and Therapeutics. Potential Development of Human Monoclonal Antibody Therapeutics to SARS-CoV-2. Results from the PRECISION Study Expected in First Half of 2021. CHATHAM, N.J., The research encompasses two projects. Ilya Trakht, Ph.D.,

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Scienmag

MARCH 5, 2021

Scientists at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, in a collaboration the Duke University, have confirmed that monoclonal antibodies can be an effective tool in the global fight against malaria.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 24, 2023

Since the first human administration of the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine in 1921, no one has been able to successfully follow the vaccine’s path to become the next approved vaccine to tackle tuberculosis (TB). However, as the TB-related death toll remains high, the global need for another vaccine is steadily rising.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

With scientists fervently developing mRNA vaccines, nucleic acid therapeutics, and viral vector-based gene therapies, clinicians are set to have a growing number of tools available to treat a wide range of conditions, from infectious diseases to genetic disorders and more. The field of genomic medicine has reached a true turning point.

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XTalks

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

On the heels of news that AstraZeneca/Oxford’s COVID-19 vaccine has markedly reduced effectiveness against the B.1.351 1.351 variant of SARS-CoV-2 that first appeared in South Africa, the vaccine makers are going full steam ahead to make a variant booster shot against the strain. 1.351 between the vaccine and placebo groups.

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Scienmag

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Antibody-like proteins that capture and neutralize SARS-CoV-2 Scientists have used a new high-speed, in vitro selection method to isolate 9 antibody-like proteins (ALPs) that bind to the SARS-CoV-2 virus – 4 of which also exhibited neutralizing activity – within 4 days, according to a new study.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 27, 2023

COVID vaccines call our immune systems to action, generating antibodies which fight against any contact we have with the virus. Antibodies help to reduce the effects of an infection or even prevent it altogether. Scientists have estimated that vaccination has averted millions of COVID deaths worldwide.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

As the death toll from COVID19 inexorably mounts, Pfizer and BioNTech have announced that their COVID-19 vaccine candidate is more than 90% effective at countering the disease in an interim analysis. This means that protection is achieved 28 days after the initiation of the vaccination, which consists of a 2-dose schedule.

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pharmaphorum

JULY 27, 2021

Boehringer Ingelheim’s latecomer antibody therapy for COVID-19 has been side-lined, as the company focuses its attention on its thrombolytic drug alteplase, heading into a phase 3 programme later this year. The hope was that an inhaled antibody would reach higher levels in the lung, where it is most needed, than systemic antibodies.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Moderna has kicked off a clinical trial of an HIV vaccine based on the same mRNA platform that underpins its COVID-19 shot – seeking to succeed where traditional vaccine technologies have failed. Results are due next year, but the current trial is only seen as the first step in developing a potential HIV vaccine.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 12, 2021

million additional doses of the casirivimab and imdevimab antibody cocktail, bringing total potential U.S. Under the new agreement, the government will purchase all finished doses of the casirivimab and imdevimab antibody cocktail delivered by June 30, 2021 , up to 1.25 TARRYTOWN, N.Y. , 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — . million doses.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 7, 2020

7, 2020 — Scientists say they may be getting closer to creating a universal flu vaccine. In an early-stage clinical trial with 65 volunteers in the United States, an experimental vaccine triggered strong immune responses to a wide range of flu virus strains and subtypes. MONDAY, Dec.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

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.

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