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Fortifying vaccines through disease surveillance and data reporting  

Drug Discovery World

Shelley McLendon , SVP of Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Program Management at ICON, attended the World Vaccine Congress Europe from 16-19 October 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. Additionally, to fully take advantage of the opportunity that surveillance provides for vaccine efficacy trials, institutional trust must be restored.

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Approvals in the Crazy Year of 2020

Eye on FDA

During 2020, FDA was able to approve 53 – not surpassing the 2018 all time record of 59, but certainly an admirable second place. Notably, the 2020 NME approvals included 22 related to oncology, with 2 new GIST treatments, 3 in breast cancer and 2 approvals in prostate cancer. That, however, was not really the case.

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eBook: Breakthroughs in oncology research and drug discovery

Drug Discovery World

While the age-adjusted overall cancer death rate in the US fell by 33% between 1991 and 2020, cancer remains a significant threat to human health, with more than two million new cases expected to be diagnosed in 2024 and uneven progress across different cancer types 1.

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Pfizer and BioNTech to Provide COVID-19 Vaccine Doses for Olympic Athletes at the 2020 Tokyo Games

The Pharma Data

Under the MoU, the companies and the IOC will coordinate with National Olympic Committees (NOCs) around the world to understand and work to help address the local need for vaccine doses for national delegations’ participation in the Games. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: [link].

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Unlocking the potential of synthetic DNA 

Drug Discovery World

Engineering biology is reshaping the world, from enabling the rapid development of vaccines to providing alternatives to petroleum fuels. mRNA vaccines and antibody therapies in particular are promising areas that are already having significant impact across the healthcare industry, with enormous potential to address unmet medical needs.

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COVID-19 Vaccine Developers Adjust Phase 3 Trial Protocols to Allow Authorized Vaccines | 2020-12-17

The Pharma Data

COVID-19 vaccine developers are faced with an ethical quandary — whether to let phase 3 trial participants become “unblinded” and to receive authorized vaccines as they become available, which could hinder the collection of meaningful trial data. Pfizer, which has received emergency approvals in the U.S.

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Hackers Target Moderna Vaccine Data Through Cyberattack on EMA | 2020-12-16

The Pharma Data

Moderna has revealed that it was impacted by last week’s cyberattack on the European Medicines Agency (EMA), during which hackers compromised agency computer systems and accessed vaccine regulatory submission documents for Pfizer/BioNTech’s and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines. biotech firms ( DID , July 22 ). James Miessler.

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