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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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Ginkgo Bioworks to discover and develop novel vaccine adjuvants 

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Licensing for human use Adjuvants are components of vaccines that help to enhance the magnitude, breadth, and duration of the immune response to vaccination. SaponiQx’s STIMULON QS-21is an adjuvant component in vaccines for shingles, malaria, and respiratory syncytial virus.

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Collaborators investigate novel T-cell receptor therapy

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The studies will evaluate the therapy’s effect on tumour growth and activation of other immune cells in the tumour microenvironment. Elicera Therapeutics has the right to utilise the data in its internal project development as well as commercialisation activities, including licensing agreements.

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Accelerated development for Covid-19 monoclonal antibody

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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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Preclinical data supports arenaviral therapeutic vaccine for hepatitis B

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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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Calidi Biotherapeutics gets FDA go-ahead for US trial  

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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. .

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New class of antibody cancer drug shows promise

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What’s interesting about IgE is its involvement in our body’s defence against parasites and the particularly powerful immune response it elicits. We hope that through further trials, we will see it successfully target cancer cells with the same voracity, opening up an entirely new treatment option for patients.”