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Treatments for poxviruses -- including those causing mpox and smallpox -- may already exist in licensed drugs

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The drug tecovirimat is currently in use for the treatment of mpox -- the disease caused by monkeypox virus -- that spread worldwide in 2022. Tecovirimat is an anti-poxviral drug, and its use is driving the emergence of drug-resistant variants of the monkeypox virus.

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Novartis, Voyager Therapeutics reach license option agreement for next-generation gene therapy vectors for neurological diseases

The Pharma Data

Novartis today announced a license option agreement with Voyager Therapeutics, a gene therapy company focused on next-generation adeno-associated virus (AAV) technologies, for three capsids to use in potential gene therapies for neurological diseases, with options to access capsids for two other targets.

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Coronavirus vaccine: UK signs deals for 90 million virus vaccine doses

The Pharma Data

There are no licensed vaccines for any human coronavirus.” Inactivated whole virus vaccines: 60 million doses Valneva. Kate Bingham, chair of the UK government Vaccine Taskforce, told the BBC: “We don’t know if any of these vaccine formats that we’ve acquired will actually work.

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Pfizer and BioNTech Initiate Rolling Submission of Biologics License Application for U.S. FDA Approval of Their COVID 19 Vaccine

The Pharma Data

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine has not been approved or licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but has been authorized for emergency use by FDA under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to prevent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) for use in individuals 16 years of age and older.

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Crescita Announces Licensing Agreement for Pliaglis; in China

The Pharma Data

Ltd (“Juyou”), a biotechnology company that develops and sells medical and cosmetic skincare products, for the commercialization and development of Pliaglis ® in mainland China (the “License Agreement”). million and US$1.8

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Preliminary Findings from a Phase 2a Trial of Investigational COVID-19 Therapeutic Molnupiravir

The Pharma Data

The companies today reported findings on one secondary objective from the Phase 2a study, showing a reduction in time (days) to negativity of infectious virus isolation in nasopharyngeal swabs from participants with symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, as determined by isolation in Vero cell line culture. About Molnupiravir.

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Finding the right CDMO partner for cell line development

Drug Target Review

For example, a CDMO with deep sequencing knowledge and a proprietary cell line will achieve significantly better performance than CDMOs that license third-party technologies. The first concern is microbial contamination. CDMOs must routinely test throughout CLD to ensure cell cultures are free of microbes.