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Eyam Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics Reaches Agreement to License Next-Generation COVID-19 Vaccine Candidates from the University of British Columbia

The Pharma Data

This License Agreement represents an important corporate milestone. The License provides EYAM with the exclusive right to develop several proprietary COVID-19 vaccine candidates in a self-amplifying mRNA vaccine platform. EYAM anticipates rapid commencement of animal trials for these COVID-19 vaccine candidates.

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Covid researchers launch Monkeypox study  

Drug Discovery World

The trial will see participants receive either a 14-day course of 600 mg tecovirimat twice daily or a matched placebo treatment. As a community-based trial, participants will take the treatment or placebo in their own homes. The trial looks to include at least 500 participants in the UK. .

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Deliberate Dysentery

Codon

Today, refined versions of these human challenge studies have become standard practice in testing vaccines for vector-borne diseases (e.g., Human challenge trials were an indispensable part of the development of the malaria vaccine, R21/Matrix-M, endorsed by the World Health Organization last October.

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First Single-Shot Vaccine in Fight Against Global Pandemic

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, to prevent COVID-19 in individuals 18 years of age and older. The terms of the EUA allow use of the vaccine while more data are gathered.

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FDA broadens existing emergency use of Lilly and Incyte’s baricitinib in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 requiring oxygen

The Pharma Data

The EUA now provides for the use of baricitinib for treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalized adults and pediatric patients two years of age or older requiring supplemental oxygen, non-invasive or invasive mechanical ventilation or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). percent (24/515) for baricitinib plus remdesivir versus 7.1

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PFIZER AND BIONTECH ANNOUNCE SUBMISSION OF INITIAL DATA TO U.S. FDA TO SUPPORT BOOSTER DOSE OF COVID-19 VACCINE

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to support the evaluation of a third, or booster, dose of the companies’ COVID-19 vaccine (BNT162b2) for future licensure. Vaccination is our most effective means of preventing COVID-19 infection – especially severe disease and hospitalization – and its profound impact on protecting lives is indisputable.

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OBI Pharma Announces Presentations at ESMO Asia 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting for OBI-833, a Novel Anti-Globo H Targeted Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine

The Pharma Data

These results will be presented by the lead investigators of OBI Pharma’s novel anti-Globo H therapeutic cancer vaccine, OBI-833. ” Ming-Tain Lai, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at OBI Pharma stated, “In the trial, OBI-833 demonstrated a favorable safety profile and generated detectable anti-Globo H IgM/IgG responses. .”

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