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The New Frontier in Drug Development: Understanding Biologics and Small Molecules

Cloudbyz

In the intricate dance of drug discovery and development, two protagonists emerge as the cornerstones of modern medicine: biologics and small molecules. Biologics: Biologics are large, complex molecules, often proteins, that are produced using living cells.

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Enabling the next wave of innovative drug therapies with speciality enzymes

Pharmaceutical Technology

In September 2021, GlobalData figures revealed there to be 1,320 industry-sponsored regenerative medicine and advanced therapy trials ongoing worldwide. You can also use enzymes for product quality assurance, for example, to digest residual nucleic acid in the downstream process, enabling recombinant proteins to meet regulatory guidelines.”.

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Novavax Announces COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Development Progress

The Pharma Data

(Nasdaq: NVAX), a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today provided an update on its COVID-19 vaccine program. pivotal Phase 3 trial update. Novavax completed enrollment of 15,000 participants in a pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial being conducted in the U.K.

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Novartis’ Ilaris fails in late-stage COVID-19 trial

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Novartis’ Ilaris (canakinumab) has failed to produce results in a phase 3 trial, which tested whether it could improve COVID-19 patients’ survival chances without need for mechanical ventilation. The key secondary endpoint was to reduce the COVID-19-related death rate during the four week period after trial treatment.

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Novavax Announces Agreement with Government of New Zealand for 10.7 Million Doses of COVID-19 VaccineAdvance purchase agreement signed for NVX-CoV2373, Novavax’ adjuvanted protein vaccine candidate

The Pharma Data

Nasdaq: NVAX), a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced an Advance Purchase Agreement with the government of New Zealand for the purchase of 10.7 NVX-CoV2373 contains purified protein antigen and can neither replicate, nor can it cause COVID-19.

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AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 Vaccine Shows High Efficacy

XTalks

Severe cases of the infection did not occur among trial participants, nor were any hospitalizations reported. The global trials are assessing the safety and efficacy of the vaccine in individuals aged 18 years or over from diverse racial and geographic groups who are healthy or have stable underlying medical conditions.

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Q&A with Mark Garner: The golden age of cancer research  

Drug Discovery World

Global Cancer Segment Market Manager at Agilent Technologies, recently sat down with DDW Editor Reece Armstrong to tell us about the developments in the ‘golden age’ of cancer research. For example, if a patient’s tumour has a particular protein present, called a checkpoint protein, this will reduce the response of T-cells.