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Trial success for 2 coronavirus vaccines backs up early research bets

Bio Pharma Dive

Positive results from Pfizer and Moderna offer the strongest validation yet of researchers' approach to coronavirus vaccines, but critical questions remain.

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Cancer Research UK and CRIS fund lung cancer vaccine research

Pharmaceutical Technology

Cancer Research UK and the CRIS Cancer Foundation have awarded a £1.7m ($2.1m) grant for developing the lung cancer vaccine LungVax.

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Researchers lay out hypothesis for rare side effect linked to AstraZeneca vaccine

Bio Pharma Dive

The EMA has reiterated the benefits of the shot outweigh the risks, but the safety concerns are another hurdle to the vaccine's rollout in Europe.

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Nobel Prize awarded for research that paved the way for Covid-19 mRNA vaccines

Pharmaceutical Technology

The Physiology and Medicine Prize has gone to two researchers whose work laid the foundation for Pfizer and Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines.

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How did pharma develop a vaccine so quickly?

World of DTC Marketing

OBSERVATION: Biologics can take a long time to develop but COVID vaccines have been in development for almost 50 years and novel approaches were used to develop these vaccines. Vaccines typically take 10 to 15 years to develop, test and release to the public. The coronavirus vaccines, however, took less than a year.

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US FDA makes EUA changes to Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines

Pharmaceutical Technology

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made changes to the emergency use authorisations (EUAs) of the Pfizer -BioNTech and Moderna bivalent mRNA Covid-19 vaccines. The latest amendment aims to simplify the vaccination schedule for most people. The changes mean that the current bivalent vaccines for the original and Omicron BA.4/BA.5

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Optimism on Pfizer COVID vaccine is unwarranted

World of DTC Marketing

You need to ask yourself why in the hell Pfizer’s CEO would say that their vaccine is 90% effective when there is a lot more testing and review of data needed. However, there’s still a long way to go before researchers can be certain that this vaccine is indeed as effective as promised. The media has not been helpful.