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IXCHIQ Chikungunya Vaccine Trial Shows Sustained Immune Response in Adolescents

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The VLA1553-321 trial, conducted in Brazil, was the first to assess the vaccine in an endemic region. The study included 754 adolescents, comparing immune responses and safety profiles between vaccine and placebo groups. These sustained responses build on earlier data showing 99.1% efficacy at six months and 98.8%

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

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It can suppress Th2 immune responses by binding to IL-17RB on Type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s). This blocks a cascade of responses that are induced by interleukin-25 (IL-25), a critical cytokine which is classified as ‘alarmin’.

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Merck and Moderna partner to develop and sell cancer vaccine

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The mRNA-4157/V940 has been designed to stimulate an immune response by producing T-cell responses depending on the mutational signature of a patient's tumour. The company said that the data from the ongoing Phase II trial will be reported in the fourth quarter of this year.

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US FDA grants approval for Merck’s pneumococcal vaccine for children

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It was based on findings from seven double-blind, randomised, clinical trials that evaluated the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of the vaccine in infants, children and adolescents.

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Trials of Valneva COVID-19 vaccine begin in UK

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Trials of a fifth COVID-19 vaccine have begun in the UK, as IT issues threaten to delay the roll-out of the shot from Pfizer/BioNTech. France’s Valneva begun the phase 1/2 clinical study of the inactivated vaccine candidate VLA2001 in sites across the UK, supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

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Sanofi/GSK restart COVID-19 vaccine trials after tweaking formulation

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Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline are restarting clinical development of their COVID-19 vaccine, which was delayed after hitting a snag late last year. In December interim phase 1/2 trial results showed the vaccine produced a lower immune response in older adults.

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UK gears up for ‘challenge trial’ of COVID-19 vaccine

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The UK could be the first country to carry out a COVID-19 “challenge trial” where healthy volunteers are deliberately infected with coronavirus to test vaccines, according to press reports. That vaccine is top of the World Health Organization’s list of vaccines in clinical development, which shows there are 38 potential shots in human trials.