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Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine gets Taiwan FDA EUA for use in adults

Pharmaceutical Technology

The protein-based vaccine is engineered from the genetic sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus’ initial strain. Developed utilising Novavax’s recombinant nanoparticle technology to generate antigen obtained from the coronavirus spike (S) protein, the vaccine is also formulated with the company’s saponin-based Matrix-M adjuvant.

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China NMPA grants approval for CanSinoBIO’s Covid-19 vaccine as booster

Pharmaceutical Technology

In March last year, CanSinoBIO obtained approval for the clinical trial application to analyse Convidecia Air. Administered as a single dose, the genetically engineered vaccine has the replication-defective adenovirus type 5 vector that expresses the spike S protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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ARTHEx Biotech raises funds to advance DM1 therapy to clinical trial

Pharmaceutical Technology

ARTHEx Biotech will use the funds to advance an antimiR oligonucleotide, ATX-01, to a Phase I/IIa clinical trial in the second half of 2023. It has a dual mechanism of action that targets toxic dystrophia myotonica protein kinase and MBNL protein.

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Symvess: Humacyte’s FDA-Approved Bioengineered Solution for Vascular Trauma

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Rishi Kundi, a clinical investigator at the University of Maryland Medical System, believes Symvess holds the potential to transform vascular trauma care by overcoming longstanding challenges like infection control and graft failure that have plagued traditional repair methods.

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Generate Biomedicines partners with MD Anderson to develop cancer therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

Generate Biomedicines has signed a co-development and commercialisation agreement with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to expedite the development of new protein therapeutics for oncology using generative AI. TRACTION is a part of the therapeutics discovery division of MD Anderson.

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Gates Biomanufacturing Facility reaches protein biologic manufacturing milestone

Scienmag

(February 23, 2021) – The Gates Biomanufacturing Facility (GBF) has completed the manufacturing and release of a protein-based biologic under Good Manufacturing Practice for Phase 1 Investigational Drugs for first-in-human clinical trials.

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City of Hope researchers develop new brain cancer therapy

Pharmaceutical Technology

For this approach, the team leveraged an oncolytic herpes simplex virus for releasing chemokines, which are signalling proteins that aid in attracting immune cells to tumours. These viruses are engineered genetically for killing cancer. GBMs are called “cold” tumours as they lack helpful immune cells.