Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 31, 2023

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended HIPRA’s Covid-19 vaccine , Bimervax, as a Covid-19 booster. Available to people ages 16 years and above who have been vaccinated with a Covid-19 mRNA vaccine, EMA’s Human Medicines Committee concluded the vaccine is ready for marketing authorization in the EU, on 30 March.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 10, 2023

It will also be used for the treatment of people who are not likely to have an adequate immune response to Covid-19 vaccination or for people who are not recommended for Covid-19 vaccination. Dr Noor Hisham was quoted as saying: “The use of Evusheld was based on clinical guidelines issued by the health ministry.”

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 15, 2021

J&J has announced early trial results that suggest its single-shot coronavirus vaccine provides a sustained response against the virus ahead of a phase 3 trial readout due later this month. Both of these vaccines require two doses, as does the most recently approved shot from Moderna, which is due to arrive in the UK in the spring.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 29, 2023

Novavax has received positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) for full marketing authorisation (MA) of its Covid vaccine, Nuvaxovid (NVX-CoV2373) , in the European Union (EU). The safety and efficacy of Nuvaxovid was evaluated as a primary series.

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pharmaphorum

JULY 18, 2022

MBA, managing director at CanSino Biologics Europe, tells us about Convidecia, a single dose SARS-CoV-2 vaccine offered as an injectable and inhalant that allows ease of storage, an alternative option for individuals with needle phobias, and robust elongated CD4 and CD8 cellular response. Morgon, PharmD, LL.M, How it works.

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Scienmag

JUNE 3, 2021

Strong immune responses to unchanging, conserved parts of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic flu virus suggest strategies for effective universal vaccines Credit: Guthmiller et al.

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Despite great progress with SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, there is still a need to accelerate vaccination in low- and middle-income countries and a need for more effective vaccine strategies in older adults, who tend to have weaker immune responses to vaccination.

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Scienmag

JANUARY 18, 2021

Novel tuberculosis vaccine demonstrated strong immune response in mice Credit: University of Sydney Scientists in Australia have developed a method for the rapid synthesis of safe vaccines, an approach that can be used to test vaccine strategies against novel pandemic pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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Scienmag

APRIL 19, 2021

A study of immune cells circulating in the blood hints the gut’s immune response to COVID-19 infection may not provide sufficient whole-body immunity from the virus Our guts may not provide long-lasting systemic immunity from COVID-19, which is where immune cells circulate through the body to provide protection to other organs, finds a new study (..)

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 25, 2022

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended an update to the conditional marketing authorization (CMA) to include Moderna ’s 50µg booster dose of Covid-19 vaccine, Spikevax, for usage in adolescents aged 12 to 17 years.

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Pfizer

JULY 19, 2022

Pfizer and BioNTech Complete Submission to European Medicines Agency for Omicron BA.1 1 Adapted Bivalent Vaccine Candidate. Pfizer and BioNTech Complete Submission to European Medicines Agency for Omicron BA.1 1 Adapted Bivalent Vaccine Candidate. 1 as compared to the companies’ current COVID-19 vaccine.

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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. The study is funded by the Government of Canada through its COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF).

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BioSpace

JANUARY 14, 2021

Johnson & Johnson published interim Phase I/IIa data in the New England Journal of Medicine showing its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine candidate created an immune response that lasted at least 71 days.

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pharmaphorum

APRIL 16, 2021

A study has suggested that the risk of getting a serious brain clot is eight to 10 times higher in people with COVID-19 than those who get a vaccine. The study follows investigations into potential links with the AstraZeneca vaccine and rare blood clots. But the researchers concluded they are still rarer after a vaccine.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Research by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has provided new insights into the mechanism behind how our circadian 24-hour body clock influences our immune response to vaccines, depending on the time of day.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 5, 2022

million grant by the US government to develop an intranasal vaccine for gonorrhoea, a sexually-transmitted infection that is on the rise around the world. million in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to further develop a prophylactic vaccine based on its proprietary outer membrane vesicles (OMV) platform technology.

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Scienmag

MARCH 25, 2021

The largest study of its kind to date also found benefit for lactating women BOSTON – In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard have found the new mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to be highly effective in […].

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 4, 2021

UK chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a budget loaded with initiatives designed to kick-start the UK’s economy as it recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, with vaccine development, pharma and life sciences playing a key role. The post Budget 2021: Sunak focuses on vaccine development to restart economy 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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NY Times

MAY 11, 2022

Antibody levels rose in the children who received it, suggesting the vaccine protects against infection. But the data were gathered before the arrival of Omicron.

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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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Scienmag

JANUARY 26, 2022

WHAT: In adults who had previously received a full regimen of any of three COVID-19 vaccines granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) or approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an additional booster dose of any of these vaccines was safe and prompted an immune response, according to preliminary clinical trial results reported in The […]. (..)

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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. During challenge with the original SARS-CoV-2 virus, animals vaccinated with CV2CoV were found to be better protected based on highly effective clearance of the virus in the lungs and nasal passages.

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Pfizer

JULY 26, 2022

Pfizer and BioNTech Advance COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy With Study Start of Next-Generation Vaccine Candidate Based on Enhanced Spike Protein Design. Pfizer and BioNTech Advance COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy With Study Start of Next-Generation Vaccine Candidate Based on Enhanced Spike Protein Design. deliesschef.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The World Health Organization (WHO) has backed Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine, Covovax (NVX-CoV2373), by granting it an emergency use listing (EUL). The company is awaiting on authorization of its vaccine from regulatory health bodies around the world, including the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Health Canada.

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XTalks

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Last week, a study that “stumbled upon” a vaccine for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The experimental arthritis vaccine was developed by researchers at the University of Toledo (UToledo) and is a major breakthrough for rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases as well.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Phase 2 trials in 1,200 adults, young children, and infants suggest new poliovirus vaccine may have the potential to overcome outbreaks caused by a mutated polio strain linked to the oral vaccine that typically circulates in areas of low immunisation coverage, and poses one of biggest barriers to eradication.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

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.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Genomic medicine is a rapidly growing space in which researchers use the information in a person’s genes to identify and administer medical treatment.”. The evolving field of genomic medicine. There are two components to genomic medicine, known as the payload and the vector. Forging an AI-enabled path toward precision medicine.

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The Pharma Data

JULY 11, 2021

Phase 3 study met primary and secondary endpoints demonstrating MenQuadfi ® induced superior immune responses to serogroup C compared to a standard-of-care vaccine in healthy toddlers MenQuadfi is the first and only quadrivalent ACWY vaccine to demonstrate superior immune response against serogroup C in toddlers.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 31, 2022

It is becoming increasingly important for people all over the world to understand the importance of vaccines and to have access to the vaccines they need – especially with digital innovation driving new vaccine development. Pfizer’s Josh Raysman, Saad Saeed, and Shanaya Deboo discuss vaccine awareness, access, and innovation.

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Older adults are at a disproportionate risk of severe COVID-19 disease, so it is essential that any vaccine adopted for use against SARS-CoV-2 is effective in this group Peer-reviewed / Randomised Controlled Trial / People **There will be a UK Science Media Centre briefing at 10.15am UK time on Thursday 19th November about this study. […].

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Scienmag

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In a study published today in the American Journal of Transplantation, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say that children between the ages of 12 and 18 who have received solid organ transplants appear to mount a more robust immune response than their adult counterparts after a standard two-dose vaccination regimen against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that (..)

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 3, 2021

Novavax hopes its COVID-19 vaccine could be filed in the US in the second quarter, following a potential approval from the UK regulator in the coming weeks. Novavax’s vaccine is a sequence of protein engineered from the genetic sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that mimics the “Spike” protein found on the pathogen’s surface.

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pharmaphorum

JULY 5, 2021

vaccine effectiveness rates, reading the latest updates on local infection rates and cautiously deciding whether it’s safe or not to see their friends again. The reason none of them can say with certainty whether or not they are truly safe is because everyone’s immune response is unique to that individual. ” .

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Scienmag

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

September 21, 2020–(BRONX, NY)–The first study comparing the immune responses of adults and children with COVID-19 has detected key differences that may contribute to understanding why children usually have milder disease than adults. The study was published today in Science […].

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Scienmag

MARCH 24, 2021

Department of Defense When clinical trials were conducted to determine the immunogenicity — the ability to elicit an immune response — for the first two vaccines marshaled against SARS-CoV-2the virus that causes COVID-19, one group was not among those included: people who have received solid organ […].

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