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“Game-changing” personalised cancer vaccine enters UK clinical trials   

Drug Discovery World

A clinical trial of a personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma patients has been launched in the UK. The vaccines are personalised to each patient after a tumour sample is removed during surgery and then analysed using DNA sequencing. in the combination arm and 62.2%

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Vaccines and various response rates

Drug Discovery World

DDW Editor Reece Armstrong speaks to Dr Katrina Pollock from the Oxford Vaccine Group at the University of Oxford. Dr Pollock is the Chief Investigator of the LEGACY03 clinical trial, a study aiming to investigate lymph nodes and vaccination responses across age groups. RA: Could you tell us about the LEGACY03 trial?

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LDL cholesterol vaccine ‘could be a game-changer’

Drug Discovery World

The first subjects have been dosed in a Phase I clinical trial of VXX-401, an investigational vaccine designed to lower low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, a known factor in heart disease. We’re excited to get this first-in-human trial of VXX-401 started.

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Immuno-oncology innovations redefining cancer treatment in 2024

Drug Target Review

The current shift focuses on enhancing their efficacy by addressing the crucial need for robust T cell responses, an apparent bottleneck for broader impact. Vaccinations against tumour antigens that are shared between tumours, or tumour antigens that arise from mutations unique to individual tumours, represent promising strategies.

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Covid vaccine: Trial of new coronavirus vaccine starts in UK

The Pharma Data

A trial of a new vaccine that appears to train the immune system to fight coronavirus has begun in the UK. The trial on 10,000 people will now see if the vaccine can prevent people getting ill. Some of the vaccines being developed for Covid-19 use either completely new or barely proven technologies.

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Coronavirus: Monoclonal antibodies to begin UK trial

The Pharma Data

A new antibody treatment is to be trialled on Covid-19 patients in UK hospitals. It forms part of the UK Recovery Trial, which found that a cheap steroid called dexamethasone could save lives. We need to know, and the way to know is to do the trials that will tell us whether that hope turns into reality.”.

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Sanofi and GSK to seek regulatory authorization for COVID-19 vaccine

The Pharma Data

* Final analysis of the global VAT02 booster trial confirms universal ability to boost neutralizing antibodies 18- to 30-fold across vaccine platforms (mRNA, adenovirus). * efficacy against any symptomatic COVID-19 disease, in line with expected vaccine effectiveness in today’s environment dominated by variants of concern.

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