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Successful clinical trial for re-engineered Covid vaccine 

Drug Discovery World

The University of Queensland’s re-engineered clamp platform has produced a vaccine that is equally safe and virus-neutralising as an approved Covid vaccine considered among the best in its class. million to continue development for use in the global response to future disease outbreaks. The Clamp2 trial group showed a 2.5-fold

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How structural biology is informing vaccine design

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Reece Armstrong speaks to Melanie Adams-Cioaba , Senior Director and General Manager of pharma (cryo-EM), Thermo Fisher Scientific about advances in vaccine design. Using structural biology as central to vaccine design and development, and to drug discovery more generally, is what we mean by “rational design.”

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New UK partnership to accelerate mRNA research

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It is hoped that a new partnership between the UK government and BioNTech will help accelerate clinical trials of personalised immunotherapies for cancer and infectious disease vaccines. . The agreement means cancer patients will get early access to trials exploring personalised mRNA therapies, like cancer vaccines. .

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Brisbane-Atlanta partnership focuses on pandemic response

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The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia, and Emory University in Atlanta, US, have committed to scaling up their collaboration to focus on pandemic preparedness and regional disease prevention. This is a crucial step in getting new vaccine candidates from the lab to the community in the shortest possible time,” Professor Terry added.

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Valneva and Pfizer Report Positive Phase 2 Pediatric Data for Lyme Disease Vaccine Candidate

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Valneva SE (Nasdaq: VALN; Euronext Paris: VLA), a specialty vaccine company, and Pfizer Inc. Valneva SE (Nasdaq: VALN; Euronext Paris: VLA), a specialty vaccine company, and Pfizer Inc. NYSE: PFE) today reported positive Phase 2 pediatric data for their Lyme disease vaccine candidate, VLA15.

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Join DDW for the SLAS2024 Ignite Theater ‘Innovation from lab to patient’

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Inspired by the overall event theme of ‘Innovation at Every Turn’, the DDW track will present leading research and case studies from experts in academia, government agencies and the industry on how technology is innovating from bench to bedside, lab to patient. It is sponsored by Integra Biosciences and Hamamatsu Corporation.

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Long Covid: A call to action for drug developers

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highlight the impact of viral infection on several facets of this central mitochondrial organelle, including bioenergetics, metabolism, inflammation, and oxidative stress, with downregulation of these processes across several organ systems both in the presence of the virus (and correlated with severity) and after the virus is not detected.