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The Vaccine Development Landscape and Its Associated Challenges

DrugBank

Adjuvants are substances added to vaccines to enhance the immune response. They work by decreasing the solubility of the vaccine, which sustains the release of the drug and prolongs the immune response. Even after a vaccine is approved and distributed, the pharmaceutical industry's responsibility does not end.

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A research team searches for every gene that helps tumors evade immunotherapy

Broad Institute

As a first step, Manguso set his sights on treatments called PD-1 checkpoint inhibitors, which at the time had shown tremendous promise in clinical trials and would receive their first FDA approval in 2014. The findings suggest a complex, context-dependent relationship between IFNγ signaling and the anti-tumor immune response.

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Unveiling neoantigen-directed cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

An antigen is a protein that can induce an immune response in the body. Some of these mutations result in the production of new antigens, called “neoantigens,” which offer a seek-and-destroy signal for our immune system, killer T cells, to home in on. Before joining Adaptive in 2014, Sharon was Senior Director at Elsevier Inc.,

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CAR-NK cells: promising for cancer therapy

Drug Target Review

NK cells are among the front line of protection from infected and abnormal cells as part of the ‘innate immune response’. They recognise ‘cell stress molecules’ on the surface of infected, old, injured and cancerous cells without the need for complex pre-stimulation signals of the adaptive immune system (eg, T cells).

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Gamma delta T cells: a rising star in cancer therapy

Drug Target Review

Prior to the founding of IN8bio, from 2014 to 2017, Mr Ho was the Founder and Managing Partner at AlephPoint Capital, a private healthcare investment fund. gammadelta T cells link innate and adaptive immune responses. Mr Ho has worked in the biotechnology industry for almost 20 years. References Fichtner A, Ravens S, Prinz I.

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Can Global Genomic Surveillance Forecast the Next Pandemic?

PLOS: DNA Science

Other genomic databases were retooled for the huge datasets that COVID was generating, such as the Cloud Institute for Microbial Bioinformatics, begun in 2014 and rechristened the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium ( COG-UK ). • identifies parts of the virus to target to provoke an immune response from a vaccine.

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EMA Validates Bristol Myers Squibb’s Applications for Opdivo (nivolumab) + Yervoy (ipilimumab) and Opdivo + Chemotherapy as First-Line Treatments for Unresectable Advanced, Recurrent or Metastatic Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

The Pharma Data

Opdivo is a programmed death-1 (PD-1) immune checkpoint inhibitor that is designed to uniquely harness the body’s own immune system to help restore anti-tumor immune response. By harnessing the body’s own immune system to fight cancer, Opdivo has become an important treatment option across multiple cancers.