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

PLOS: DNA Science

Gene therapy clearly hasn’t had a major impact on health care, offering extremely expensive treatments for a few individuals with rare diseases. Can they deliver healing genes without triggering an overactive immune response? In addition to high cost and small markets, patient responses haven’t been predictable.

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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. A major one is: just how well do those particular antibodies neutralize the virus to fight off the infection and help someone recover from COVID-19?

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AI in gene delivery vector discovery and design

Drug Target Review

1 Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors are the leading platform for in vivo gene delivery for the treatment of various human diseases. 9 In addition, host immune responses further add to the complexity of developing cell-specific AAV capsids for clinical applications. Nature reviews Drug discovery 18 , 358-378 (2019).

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Regeneron’s COVID-19 Outpatient Trial Prospectively Demonstrates that REGN-COV2 Antibody Cocktail Significantly Reduced Virus Levels and Need for Further Medical Attention

The Pharma Data

. “We continue to see the strongest effects in patients who are most at risk for poor outcomes due to high viral load, ineffective antibody immune response at baseline, or pre-existing risk factors. In the overall patient group with detectable virus at baseline, the average daily reduction in viral load through day 7 was a 0.36

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Sanofi and GSK initiate new Phase 2 protein-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate

The Pharma Data

New Phase 2 study assesses potential for refined antigen formulation to achieve optimal immune response, including in older adults. GSK’s response to COVID-19 has been one of the broadest in the industry, with two potential treatments in addition to our vaccine candidates in development.

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Experimental vaccine protects against deadly Sudan virus

Drug Discovery World

A research group from the National Institutes of Health has successfully developed a vaccine against Sudan virus (SUDV) based on the licensed Ebola virus (EBOV) vaccine. SUDV, identified in 1976, is one of the four viruses known to cause human Ebolavirus disease.

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2021 Biopharma Update on the Novel Coronavirus: January 12

The Pharma Data

Pfizer and BioNTech reported that their COVID-19 vaccine appears to be effective against a key mutation in new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. Dalcetrapib is a potential anti-viral treatment that binds to the catalytic site of 3CLMpro of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro. A study published by the U.S. Other Industry News.

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