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Medicago Says COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Triggers Promising Immune Response | 2020-11-10

The Pharma Data

Canadian biopharmaceutical company Medicago has announced that its investigational COVID-19 vaccine generated “significant antibody and cellular immune responses” after two doses in all subjects in an early-stage clinical trial. Based on the promising phase 1 data, the company plans to proceed with a phase 2/3 clinical trial.

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World Mental Health Day 2023: Drug discovery breakthroughs

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Read more: Preclinical study proves antidepressant effects of drug Psychedelic-based drug options Later the same month, Cybin announced it had completed dosing in Cohort 5 of a Phase II trial evaluating CYB003, an investigational proprietary deuterated analog of psilocybin for the potential treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD).

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AACR meeting will share the latest advances in cancer science

Drug Discovery World

The Opening Plenary on Sunday, April 16 will be chaired by Programme Chair Robert H Vonderheide and will feature talks by leading researchers on topics including real-world data and precision oncology, immune response in the tumour microenvironment, equity in cancer care, viral-induced malignancies, and cancer cachexia. .

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The Vaccine Development Landscape and Its Associated Challenges

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Adjuvants are substances added to vaccines to enhance the immune response. They work by decreasing the solubility of the vaccine, which sustains the release of the drug and prolongs the immune response. Even after a vaccine is approved and distributed, the pharmaceutical industry's responsibility does not end.

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NIH begins clinical trial evaluating second COVID-19 booster shots in adults

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A Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating various additional COVID-19 booster shots has begun enrolling adult participants in the United States. The study, known as the COVID-19 Variant Immunologic Landscape (COVAIL) trial, is sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.

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CureVac’s COVID-19 Vaccine Heads to Phase 2b/3 Trial | 2020-12-14

The Pharma Data

The randomized trial of the two-dose vaccine is expected to enroll more than 35,000 participants aged 18 and up at sites throughout Europe and Latin America. Participants will also be monitored in a yearlong study following the trial’s conclusion that will collect additional data to help assess the vaccine’s duration of effectiveness.

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Using single-cell technology to create human antibody-based therapeutics

Drug Discovery World

This is part of why patients in trials and the clinic can experience severe toxicity and adverse events, reject their therapy with an immune response, or completely fail to respond to treatment. These technologies in no way recapitulate the proteome that antibodies are tested against within a single human in nature.