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Astellas”) today announced that they have entered into an agreement whereby Affinivax has reacquired the exclusive worldwide rights to ASP3772, a novel vaccine candidate targeting Streptococcus pneumoniae. We believe ASP3772 has significant potential to address unmet needs in this important vaccine category.
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(NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) today announced the signing of a letter of intent with The Biovac Institute (Pty) Ltd, known as “Biovac,” a Cape Town-based, South African biopharmaceutical company, to manufacture the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for distribution within the African Union. This press release features multimedia.
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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. We are proud to play a role in providing vaccines to athletes and national Olympic delegations.”.
Immunosurveillance and the importance of CD4 T cells in developing cancer vaccines The TRACERx data have been used to identify clonal mutations for each patient in the study by comparing a patient’s tumour DNA to their healthy DNA, thereby identifying patient-specific mutations that could be targeted by a range of novel immune therapy modalities.
has been appointed Senior Vice President and Head of the Company’s Vaccine Research & Development (R&D) organization effective August 1, succeeding Kathrin U. Chief Scientific Officer and President, Worldwide Research, Development and Medical of Pfizer. Pfizer Inc. Jansen, Ph.D., who will be retiring from Pfizer.
The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine is currently available in the U.S. Since then, the companies have delivered more than 170 million doses of the vaccine across the U.S. We are proud of the tremendous progress we’ve made since December in delivering vaccines to millions of Americans, in collaboration with the U.S.
The BNT162b2 vaccination also cleared the nose of detectable viral RNA in 100% of the SARS-CoV-2 challenged rhesus macaques within 3 days after the infection. Senior Vice President and Head of Vaccine Research & Development, Pfizer. “We NEW YORK & MAINZ, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Pfizer Inc. Jansen, Ph.D.,
billion doses by the end of 2021; the companies will be ready to distribute the vaccine within hours after authorization.
BNT162b2 demonstrated a vaccine efficacy rate of 95%, with no serious safety concerns observed to date.
by the middle to end of December 2020. participants are 56-85 years of age.
times the GMT of a panel of 38 sera of SARS-CoV-2 convalescent patients, and in older adults (65-85 years of age) the vaccine candidate elicited a neutralizing GMT 1.6 study of the BNT162 mRNA-based vaccine program against SARS-CoV-2, which has advanced into Phase 2/3 evaluation. Jansen, Ph.D.,
The vaccine supply for the EU would be produced by BioNTech’s manufacturing sites in Germany and Pfizer’s manufacturing site in Belgium. Deliveries would be starting by the end of 2020, subject to clinical success and regulatory authorization. billion doses by the end of 2021. CEO and Co-founder of BioNTech.
With all this experience, I was very excited to take on the CEO role for Alzinova, a company developing a vaccine and other treatments against Alzheimer’s disease. I got the opportunity to lead a biopharma company at Alzinova that are developing a vaccine candidate against Alzheimer’s disease.
COVID-19 have caused delays to submission and processing of the regulatory application to initiate clinicaldevelopment in China.
Due to the unforeseen delays, Targovax has extended the term of IOvaxis’s license option by 3 months, otherwise the agreement remains unchanged.
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Data from 43,448 participants, half of whom received BNT162b2 and half of whom received placebo, showed that the vaccine candidate was well tolerated and demonstrated 95% efficacy in preventing COVID-19 in those without prior infection 7 days or more after the second dose.
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We are looking forward to seeing the START pilot program chart a path for a broader application of this more enhanced communication approach and FDA’s continued collaboration to facilitate development of new drugs for rare diseases, as we know there are many programs that would benefit from this approach, not just those included in the pilot.
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