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Ginkgo Bioworks to discover and develop novel vaccine adjuvants 

Drug Discovery World

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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Six March 2024 deals advancing drug discovery

Drug Discovery World

Allogene Therapeutics and Arbor Biotechnologies Biotechnology companies Allogene Therapeutics and Arbor Biotechnologies entered a non-exclusive, global gene editing licensing agreement for use of Arbor’s proprietary CRISPR gene-editing technology in Allogene’s AlloCAR T platform for the treatment of autoimmune disease (AID).

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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. Overall, these unique vaccines address several current obstacles in COVID-19 vaccine development.”

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Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics Announce Initiation of Pivotal Phase 3.

The Pharma Data

Study Now Enrolling Participants Who Live in the Same Household as Someone With Symptomatic, Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19. The global study is enrolling individuals who are at least 18 years of age and reside in the same household as someone with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection with symptoms. MOVe-AHEAD Study.

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Lilly accelerating baricitinib’s availability in India following receipt of permission for restricted emergency use as a COVID-19 therapy via donations and licensing agreements | Eli Lilly and Company

The Pharma Data

Lilly is offering donations of baricitinib to the Indian government through Direct Relief while simultaneously working with local Indian pharmaceutical companies to execute royalty-free voluntary licensing agreements to accelerate the manufacturing and distribution of the medicine in India during the pandemic.

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Update on the safety of COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca

The Pharma Data

This is much lower than would be expected to occur naturally in a general population of this size and is similar across other licensed COVID-19 vaccines. During the production of the vaccine more than 60 quality tests are conducted by AstraZeneca, its partners and by more than 20 independent testing laboratories.

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Regeneron’s COVID-19 Outpatient Trial Prospectively Demonstrates that REGN-COV2 Antibody Cocktail Significantly Reduced Virus Levels and Need for Further Medical Attention

The Pharma Data

In the overall patient group with detectable virus at baseline, the average daily reduction in viral load through day 7 was a 0.36 About REGN-COV2 REGN-COV2 is a combination of two monoclonal antibodies (REGN10933 and REGN10987) and was designed specifically to block infectivity of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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