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‘Proactive’ vaccine can protect against unknown future coronaviruses

Drug Discovery World

Researchers have developed a new vaccine technology that can provide protection against a broad range of coronaviruses with potential for future disease outbreaks – including ones we don’t know about yet. By training the immune system to attack these regions, it gives protection against other coronaviruses not represented in the vaccine.

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AIM ImmunoTech Announces Availability of the ME/CFS Clinical Trial of its Drug Ampligen for Enrollment to COVID-19 ‘Long Haulers’Institutional Review Board Authorizes Public Notification for Potential Enrollment of Subjects

The Pharma Data

Eligible patients enrolled in the trial receive treatment with AIM’s flagship pipeline drug Ampligen. The Ampligen EAP protocol is authorized to enroll up to 100 active trial participants, 20 of whom may be Long Haulers. development pipeline for ME/CFS. All study subjects will receive the same Ampligen treatments. See: PLOS ONE ).

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China’s National Medical Products Administration approves Benlysta (belimumab) for adult patients with active lupus nephritis

The Pharma Data

The BLISS-LN phase III trial is the largest and longest trial conducted in active LN, involving 448 adult patients. About the BLISS-LN trial. It is also the first biologic in China’s 2021 National Reimbursement Drug List for paediatric SLE. About lupus.

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Enlisting Monoclonal Antibodies in the Fight Against COVID-19

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

This structural information helps to clarify the precise biochemistry of the complex interaction between SARS-CoV-2 and the antibody, providing a much-needed guide for the rational design of targeted drugs and vaccines. In the U.S. Collins FS, Stoffels P. 2020 May 18.

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Finding New Ways to Fight Coronavirus … From Studying Bats

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

He uses these fundamental insights to guide the design of vaccines and therapeutics, including promising monoclonal antibodies. He’s also a member of the international research team that identified a human antibody, called S309, from a person who’d been infected with SARS in 2003.

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Alzheimer’s disease community from our Head of Research and Development, Alfred Sandrock, M.D., Ph.D.

The Pharma Data

Treatment with ADUHELM should be initiated in patients with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia stage of disease, the population in which treatment was initiated in clinical trials. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification of clinical benefit in confirmatory trial(s). Biogen Inc.

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Eclectic Genomics: Cat Flu, Dolphin Adaptation to Climate Change, Predicting Cancer, and Diagnosing Rare Disease

PLOS: DNA Science

That information led, thanks to vaccine shelved from the first SARS circa 2003, to the rapid development and deployment of mRNA vaccines against the new infectious disease. Next up: testing in real-world settings and submission of clinical trial findings to the FDA.

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