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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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Q&A: How a partnership between physicians and researchers aims to make cancer drugs safer

Broad Institute

Now, they’ve uncovered the immune basis of checkpoint myocarditis , a severe form of heart inflammation that afflicts one percent of patients on an ICI therapy and up to 2 percent with certain combination therapy. We can’t just empirically be pulling treatments — they need to be evidence-based from randomized clinical trials.

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Study reveals how cancer immunotherapy may cause heart inflammation in some patients

Broad Institute

By Leah Eisenstadt November 6, 2024 Credit: Ricardo Job-Reese, Broad Communications Despite being one of the rarer complications from immune checkpoint inhibitors, myocarditis is the most deadly. These cell maps help guide us to what we should be studying in clinical trials.”

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The Vaccine Development Landscape and Its Associated Challenges

DrugBank

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

The Pharma Data

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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Johnson & Johnson Posts Interim Results from Phase 1/2a Clinical Trial of its Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

The Pharma Data

Johnson & Johnson Posts Interim Results from Phase 1/2a Clinical Trial of its Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate. Johnson & Johnson Posts Interim Results from Phase 1/2a Clinical Trial of its Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate. Immune responses were similar across the age groups studied, including older adults.

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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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