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Clinical trial will test novel inhaled TB vaccine

Drug Discovery World

The Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford is conducting the study using Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), the current licensed vaccine against TB. This important new study will help us to see whether giving BCG more than once stimulates a stronger immune response and whether giving it by inhalation is better than giving it into the skin.

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Preclinical data supports arenaviral therapeutic vaccine for hepatitis B

Drug Discovery World

The alternating two-vector approach is designed to optimise and focus the immune response against the target antigens. It is one of two independent development programs in HOOKIPA’s collaboration and license agreement with Gilead Sciences.

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Accelerated development for Covid-19 monoclonal antibody

Drug Discovery World

AstraZeneca has initiated the SUPERNOVA Phase I/III trial of AZD5156 (a combination of AZD3152 and cilgavimab) in pre-exposure prophylaxis of Covid-19, following the company licensing AZD3152 from RQ Bio in May 2022. .

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Calidi Biotherapeutics gets FDA go-ahead for US trial  

Drug Discovery World

Biotechnology company Calidi Biotherapeutics has announced that a Phase I US clinical trial will use the company’s licensed oncolytic virotherapy platform NeuroNova to deliver an oncolytic adenovirus selectively to tumor sites in patients with recurrent high-grade glioma. . less than one year. Camaisa. .

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Merck and Moderna to jointly develop personalised cancer vaccine 

Drug Discovery World

Merck has exercised its option to jointly develop and commercialise personalised cancer vaccine (PCV) mRNA-4157/V940 pursuant to the terms of its existing collaboration and license agreement with Moderna. . KEYNOTE-942 is an ongoing randomised, open-label Phase II trial that enrolled 157 patients with high-risk melanoma.

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ImaginAb Announces License and Supply Agreement with Pfizer for CD8 ImmunoPET Technology

The Pharma Data

a leading global provider of immuno-oncology imaging agents, today announced it has signed a new multi-year, non-exclusive license with Pfizer Inc. ImaginAb will receive license fees and payments for manufacturing and other support. LOS ANGELES , Jan. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — ImaginAb Inc. , No other terms were disclosed.

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4-1BB and the critical importance of local control

SugarCone Biotech

Targeting 4-1BB remained of interest to the immuno-oncology field as cell culture experiments and tumor models in mice suggested that robust anti-tumor immune responses could be triggered by anti-4-1BB antibody therapies. This is the T cell type most closely associated with anti-tumor immune responses.