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Lilly and Kumquat Biosciences Announce Collaboration to Discover and Develop Novel Small Molecules that Stimulate Tumor-Specific Immune Responses

The Pharma Data

Loxo Oncology at Lilly, a research and development group of Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY), and Kumquat Biosciences today announced an exclusive collaboration focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of potential novel small molecules that stimulate tumor-specific immune responses.

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Experimental HIV vaccine safe but ineffective

Drug Discovery World

The HPX3002/HVTN 706, or ‘Mosaico’, Phase III clinical trial began in 2019 and involved 3,900 volunteers ages 18 to 60 years in Europe, North America and South America. Based on the DSMB’s recommendation, the study will be discontinued. The regimen was tested among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people.

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Advancing vaccine design: potential of peptide mimicry

Drug Target Review

Since December 2019, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection has become a worldwide urgent public health concern. 1 The study reveals a novel bioinformatic approach and tool that holds the potential to empower researchers in designing vaccines capable of inducing a stronger immune response.

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mRNA universal influenza vaccine enters clinical trials

Drug Discovery World

This Phase I trial will test the experimental vaccine, known as H1ssF-3928 mRNA-LNP, for safety and its ability to induce an immune response. Both vaccines use a specific portion of a flu protein, hemagglutinin (HA), to induce a broad immune response against influenza.

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mRNA technology may hold the future for a cytomegalovirus vaccine 

Drug Discovery World

While some of these earlier vaccine candidates have shown partial efficacy, the development of a CMV that elicits a durable, robust humoral and cellular immune response has not been achieved 14,15. 2019;e2034. The immune response to human CMV. The potential future of mRNA in CMV prevention . Chapter 68.

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Experimental vaccine protects against deadly Sudan virus

Drug Discovery World

The clinical study The researchers developed VSV-SUDV using techniques that led to Ervebo, the VSV-EBOV vaccine that the European Medicines Agency and the US Food and Drug Administration approved in 2019 as the first vaccine for the prevention of Ebola virus disease.

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Is Recent Gene Therapy Setback for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Déjà vu All Over Again?

PLOS: DNA Science

Can they deliver healing genes without triggering an overactive immune response? The details are disturbingly reminiscent of the famous case of Jesse Gelsinger , who died from a ferocious immune response to experimental gene therapy in September 1999. An immune response is two-tiered.