pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The mRNA technology that was deployed so effectively in vaccines against COVID-19 has now been found to offer similar promise against cancer, according to Merck & Co and Moderna. The vaccine primes the immune system to attack the tumour cells, while Keytruda blocks an immunological ‘brake’ that protects the cancer.

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XTalks

MAY 5, 2023

This week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the world’s first respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine. GSK says the RSV vaccine will be available for older adults before this year’s RSV season, which usually starts before the winter months. RSV is a negative-strand RNA virus that was first identified in 1955.

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BioPharma Reporter

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Australiaâs Noxopharm has in-licensed novel RNA tech developed by Hudson Institute of Medical Research: focusing on RNA drug discovery and mRNA vaccine manufacture via Noxopharmâs subsidiary Pharmorage.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

As the death toll from COVID19 inexorably mounts, Pfizer and BioNTech have announced that their COVID-19 vaccine candidate is more than 90% effective at countering the disease in an interim analysis. This means that protection is achieved 28 days after the initiation of the vaccination, which consists of a 2-dose schedule.

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pharmaphorum

APRIL 12, 2021

The coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa may evade Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine, according to a real-world data study conducted in Israel. But among patients who had received two doses of the vaccine, the variant’s prevalence was eight times higher than in unvaccinated people – 5.4% Known as variant B.1.351, versus 0.7%.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

AstraZeneca is preparing to file its COVID-19 vaccine with regulators after phase 3 trial results showed it is up to 90% effective. AZ made the announcemen t as the UK regulator reportedly gears up to make a decision on the rival vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech, ahead of counterparts in the US and Europe.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Pfizer has begun a pilot delivery programme in the US for its experimental COVID-19 vaccine, as the company seeks to overcome logistical challenges caused by its ultra-cold storage requirements. The vaccine developed in partnership with Germany’s BioNTech has been shown to be 90% effective in clinical trials.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

billion doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to the COVAX global initiative led by Gavi, the vaccine alliance, which aims to ensure fair access across the globe. There are growing concerns about the lack of COVID vaccines available to poorer countries. billion COVID shots to global vaccine drive appeared first on.

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XTalks

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to American scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their groundbreaking discovery of microRNA (or miRNA) and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. However, microRNAs can bind to this mRNA, preventing it from functioning.

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Roots Analysis

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In the past few years, Next Generation RNA therapeutics have emerged as one of the key therapeutic modalities in the modern healthcare industry. These RNA based therapeutics play a crucial role in protein production and regulation of gene functions.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 5, 2022

A COVID-19 vaccine that could work against multiple variants of the coronavirus – developed by US biotech Gritstone bio – has generated encouraging immune response data in its first clinical trial. “But it may be; and if it doesn’t other novel vaccines with similar benefits may well take on this role.”

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BioPharma Reporter

APRIL 30, 2024

A recent study finds RNA deals are âdominatedâ by oligonucleotides and mRNA vaccines in APAC

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

AstraZeneca’s research chief has said that the more effective dosing regimen of its coronavirus vaccine was discovered by accident. According to Reuters , the AstraZeneca development team made a minor mistake that made them realise they could significantly boost the success rate of the vaccine, codenamed AZD1222.

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BioPharma Reporter

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The Boston-based messenger RNA (mRNA) specialist Moderna revealed $19.3bn in revenues last year, but rising costs and falling demand for its COVID-19 vaccine cut into its earnings in the fourth quarter of 2022.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 7, 2020

China’s Sinovac has raised $515 million to increase its distribution and production capacity as clinical development of its potential coronavirus vaccine nears conclusion. Sinovac has a coronavirus vaccine in late-stage development, which is undergoing large-scale trials in Brazil, Pakistan, Indonesia and Chile. A further 1.8

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The European Medicines Agency has begun a second “rolling review” of a potential coronavirus vaccine jointly developed by BioNTech and Pfizer, setting up a race with a rival from AstraZeneca and Oxford University. To date, the trial has enrolled approximately 37,000 participants with more than 28,000 having received their second vaccination.

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Roots Analysis

OCTOBER 22, 2023

RNA therapeutics are a novel class of biopharmaceuticals that harness the power of RNA molecules for the treatment and prevention of a wide range of disorders, including oncological, and genetic disorders as well as infectious diseases. Non-coding RNAs include antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) and RNA aptamers.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Moderna looks odds on to claim emergency use authorisation from the FDA for its COVID-19 vaccine this week, after the regulator published a report endorsing its safety and rating its efficacy at 94.5%. Both vaccines will be provided free of charge to recipients.

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pharmaphorum

APRIL 13, 2021

England is beginning its rollout of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, offering an alternative to the AstraZeneca/Oxford University jab following a potential link to a very rare kind of blood clot. The Moderna shot is the third vaccine to become available in the country, which has made considerable progress with its inoculation campaign.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Moderna and BioNTech, two rising stars in biotech, were in the limelight this year with their pioneering mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. But the tragic events of 2020 have meant these companies have become household names as their trailblazing mRNA vaccines became the first to be approved by regulators against the COVID-19 scourge.

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Delveinsight

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

That deal, signed in 2014, had aimed to convey most cancer mRNA vaccines to the marketplace. 858 Therapeutics closes USD 60 Million series A round to drug RNA modulation. Now, they are ready for their next venture, which is launching RNA biotech 858 Therapeutics with a USD 60 million Series A fundraising. Jeffrey Stafford, Ph.D.,

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Pharmaceutical Technology

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Solvias has extensive experience with analytical method development and testing for mRNA-based vaccines as well as monograph testing of excipients and APIs according to Ph Eur or USP. Assays to support mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines. However, messenger RNA (mRNA) based vaccines present particular analytical challenges.

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VirTrial

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Vaccine studies can be large, multinational endeavors with sensitive timeframes, extended participation follow-up periods, multiphase designs, and critical data management needs. In recent years, Signant has been a part of more than 95 vaccine studies involving 140,000+ patients in more than 30 countries.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 21, 2021

Because the new COVID-19 vaccines should still work on these viral interlopers. Luckily, the new variants still rely on the coronavirus’ “spike protein” to infect cells, and the two COVID vaccines now on the U.S. FRIDAY, Jan. “The spike is really critical. “I am extremely worried about the U.K.

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STAT News

MARCH 6, 2023

Still, when doctors told her last year that the cancer was growing despite two operations, radiation therapy, and a fifth regimen of chemotherapy, the retired business-meeting facilitator decided to do something unorthodox: spend $83,000 out of pocket on an unproven experimental cancer vaccine. Another three received them but later died.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 5, 2022

The year 2020 ended on a note of hope, with the 8th December vaccination of 91-year-old Margaret Keenan, the world’s first person to receive a COVID-19 vaccine outside clinical trials. Add to this the fact that the world missed the WHO targets for global vaccination by the end of 2021 and will likely continue to miss targets in 2022.

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 5, 2021

Novartis announced today that it has signed an initial agreement to manufacture the mRNA and bulk drug product for the COVID-19 vaccine candidate CVnCoV from CureVac to aid in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Preparations for the start of production, technology transfer and test runs are already underway.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

We believe that our investments in mRNA delivery technology and manufacturing process development will allow us to store and ship our COVID-19 vaccine candidate at temperatures commonly found in readily available pharmaceutical freezers and refrigerators,” said Juan Andres, Chief Technical Operations and Quality Officer at Moderna. “We

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the second vaccine for the prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The emergency use authorization allows the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine to be distributed in the U.S. Hahn , M.D.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 20, 2021

UK biotech ConserV Bioscience has joined with California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to develop broad-spectrum coronavirus vaccines as concerns mount over potentially more infectious strains emerging in the UK, South Africa and Brazil. Feature image courtesy of Rocky Mountain Laboratories/NIH.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 4, 2023

Within the emerging innovation stage, cell therapy for ocular disorders, coronavirus vaccine components, and DNA polymerase compositions are disruptive technologies that are in the early stages of application and should be tracked closely.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Protein-based drugs are extremely expensive and so if you can create a biosimilar and potentially lower the cost, then this is an incentive for many companies to try to get into that marketplace, but also for regulators to encourage development.”. For more information, please download our white paper.

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pharmaphorum

JULY 19, 2021

Drugs harnessing the potential of modified RNA, antisense and siRNA oligonucleotides, antibody–drug conjugates and nanomedicines will become as important as today’s ‘small molecule’ drugs, reaching potential market values into the hundreds of billions – if the potential can be realised through innovation support and industry collaboration.

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Pfizer

AUGUST 15, 2022

I am grateful to have received four doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and I am feeling well while experiencing very mild symptoms. I am incredibly grateful for the tireless efforts of my Pfizer colleagues who worked to make vaccines and treatments available for me and people around the world. COVID-19, Vaccines. 07.19.2022.

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XTalks

AUGUST 12, 2020

Xtalks spoke to lead author on the study, Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen, PhD, assistant professor, Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center at the Wistar Institute, about the emerging utility of identifying glycomic, or sugar, signatures on the surface of immune cells to help in their identification and potential targeting.

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Druggist

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Researchers continue to praise its efficacy in combating single strand RNA viruses including SARS-CoV-2. Researchers also praise its efficiency in combating anti-virus belonging to single-strand RNA viruses, including SARS-CoV-2. What does the research say about this? You should be very careful in starting the treatment on your own.

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Pfizer

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Nirmatrelvir is designed to inhibit viral replication at a stage known as proteolysis, which occurs before viral RNA replication. Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator potentiators: lumacaftor/ivacaftor. Research Vaccines. COVID-19 Research Vaccines. Maternal Immunization Pediatrics Research Vaccines.

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