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The Vaccine Development Landscape and Its Associated Challenges

DrugBank

Vaccines have consistently demonstrated their efficacy in protecting people from infectious diseases. Yet, the recent COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the obstacles that are inherent today in the development of vaccines. Stabilizers play a crucial role in maintaining the vaccine's potency and integrity throughout its shelf life.

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Advancing vaccine design: potential of peptide mimicry

Drug Target Review

In a new development, a recent paper published in Biology Methods & Protocols by Oxford University Press has highlighted a promising avenue for enhancing vaccine efficacy against infectious pathogens like the COVID-19 virus. The implications of this finding are far-reaching, as it holds the potential to revolutionize vaccine design.

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Russian application of Sputnik V vaccine for WHO vaccine prequalification among the first applications submitted

Drug Discovery Today

The Russian Federation has become one of the first countries to apply to WHO for prequalification of its vaccine against the novel coronavirus infection.

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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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Article FDA Thank You Vaccines advisory panel endorses move to trivalent formulation for U.S. flu vaccines

Agency IQ

Vaccines advisory panel endorses move to trivalent formulation for U.S. flu vaccines Yesterday, FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) weighed in on strains for seasonal influenza vaccines for the Northern hemisphere 2024-2025 season.

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Russia’s Sputnik V Vaccine Declared 92 Percent Effective | 2020-11-12

The Pharma Data

Russia’s Gamaleya Center Research Institute claimed its investigational COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, has demonstrated 92 percent efficacy in a late-stage trial. The finding was based on interim data from a phase 3 study, based on 20 confirmed cases of COVID-19, split across patients given the vaccine and patients given the placebo.

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Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Is More Than 90 Percent Effective | 2020-11-09

The Pharma Data

Pfizer announced that its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, BNT162, was more than 90 percent effective based on early data from 94 participants in a phase 3 trial. Pfizer, which is developing the vaccine along with Germany-based BioNTech, expects to manufacture up to 50 million doses of the vaccine in 2020 and up to 1.3

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