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A new vaccine developed by the Serum Institute of India to fight meningococcal disease could help eliminate meningitis across Africa. The results from a trial, published in The New England Journal of Medicine , found the vaccine was associated with a strong immuneresponse and good safety profile. for serogroup W to 20.5
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from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) unit National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to develop a prophylactic intranasal vaccine against Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG). Leveraging its outer membrane vesicles (OMV) platform technology, Intravacc will develop the vaccine.
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The Novo Nordisk Foundation has committed $260m to establish a new state-of-the-art research and vaccine development initiative to help combat deadly airborne infections. The initiative aims to create new or improved vaccines for deadly respiratory diseases, including tuberculosis (TB) and influenza. million deaths every year.
Valneva has said it plans to accelerate research into its Lyme disease vaccine candidate VLA15, bringing forward a trial including children into the first quarter of 2021. Pfizer will pay up to $45 million in development related milestone payments and up to $143 million if the vaccine hits early sales targets.
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who had been enrolled in the Vaccine Against Lyme for Outdoor Recreationists (VALOR) (NCT05477524) Phase 3 clinical study. The study is investigating the efficacy, safety and immunogenicity of an investigational Lyme disease vaccine candidate, VLA15. OspA is a surface protein expressed by the bacteria when present in a tick.
billion takeover of US biotech Affinivax, buying a pneumococcal vaccine candidate that is aiming to break into a market that for years has been dominated by Pfizer’s Prevnar franchise. The biotech says this can stimulate both B cell (antibody) and T cell immuneresponses with a single shot. GlaxoSmithKline has agreed a $3.3
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million (around $56 million) in a Series B funding round to take its novel group B streptococcus (GBS) vaccine into mid-stage clinical trials. MinervaX is one company that wants to change this situation, which aims to prevent the spread of GBS infections using a vaccine instead of using an antibacterial agent.
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