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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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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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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.

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Harnessing the microbiome: The new frontier in drug discovery and testing 

Drug Discovery World

Unravelling the influence of these gut bacteria—commonly referred to as the bacterial gut microbiome—on drug response and immune response will bring fundamental changes to how we approach drug discovery and development, as well as patient care. 365, (2019) . REFERENCES Rosshart, S. Science (80-. ).

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Finding Antibodies that Neutralize SARS-CoV-2

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

It’s now clear that nearly everyone who recovers from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) produces antibodies that specifically target SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes the infection. But there is a catch: 99 percent of the study’s participants didn’t make enough neutralizing antibodies to mount an ideal immune response.

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The promise of nanobodies to neutralise the human norovirus

Drug Target Review

These variants evade the immune response that the body has developed previously, which makes finding effective preventative and therapeutic approaches to control this disease difficult. 2019 November 4 [2023 December 18]; 34:11-26. Dr Salmen is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. 4 norovirus.

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