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Monthly News Roundup – December 2020

The Pharma Data

Monthly News Roundup – December 2020. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued Emergency Use Authorization for two COVID-19 vaccines: Pfizer-BioNTech’s BNT162b2 and Moderna’s mRNA-1273. FDA Approves First-In-Class Topical Klisyri to Treat Actinic Keratosis . Professional. In December, the U.S.

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Demonstrated a Durable Immune Response and Elicited Dual Mechanisms of Protection Against Delta and Other SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern in Data Published in New England Journal of Medicine

The Pharma Data

Antibody and T-cell immune responses strong and stable at eight months after immunization Demonstrated neutralizing antibody activity against the Delta variant (B.1.617.2) variants, as well as the original SARS-CoV-2 strain (WA1/2020). There is no FDA-approved vaccine to prevent COVID-19. 1.1.7), Beta (B.1.351),

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Q&A: How a partnership between physicians and researchers aims to make cancer drugs safer

Broad Institute

Kerry Reynolds: The first immune checkpoint inhibitor was FDA-approved in 2011 to treat melanoma, with nearly a dozen more ICIs approved for various cancers since then. That gives us a lot of hope, because we can think about targeting the inflamed organ that is failing without halting the immune response to the tumor.

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U.S. FDA Approves PREVNAR 20™, Pfizer’s Pneumococcal 20-valent Conjugate Vaccine for Adults Ages 18 Years or Older

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved PREVNAR 20 (Pneumococcal 20-valent Conjugate Vaccine) for the prevention of invasive disease and pneumonia caused by the 20 Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) serotypes in the vaccine in adults ages 18 years and older. Following today’s FDA approval, the U.S.

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CRISPR Tackles Diverse Single-Gene Conditions

PLOS: DNA Science

The end-of-year FDA approval of the first CRISPR-based therapy , for sickle cell disease, came a mere dozen years after Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier introduced the technology. They shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020. CRISPR is one of the better abbreviations in genetics. It restores vision in just days.

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Clover Biopharmaceuticals Announces Positive Phase 1 Data for its Adjuvanted S-Trimer COVID-19 Vaccine Candidates

The Pharma Data

4, 2020 08:00 UTC. Strong Th1 cell-mediated immune responses were also observed for the vaccine candidates with either adjuvant. A global Phase 2/3 efficacy study of the S-Trimer vaccine candidate in combination with GSK’s pandemic adjuvant system is expected to begin in December 2020. CHENGDU, China.–(

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Update on CALAVI Phase II Trials for Calquence in Patients Hospitalised with Respiratory Symptoms of COVID-19

The Pharma Data

12 November 2020 — The CALAVI Phase II trials for Calquence (acalabrutinib) in patients hospitalised with respiratory symptoms of COVID-19 did not meet the primary efficacy endpoint. Accessed October 2020. Accessed October 2020. Posted: November 2020. NCT identifier: NCT04380688. Available online.

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