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AstraZeneca to acquire vaccine maker Icosavax for up to $1.1B

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The deal signals the pharma company’s continuing interest in vaccine development and hands it a combination shot aimed at two respiratory viruses.

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Keeping tabs on Covid-19: Iceni Diagnostics creates new virus detection device and the RDIF announce its vaccine is more than 95 per cent efficient

The Pharma Data

This week, another pharma company revealed a new technology device that can detect if a patient is infectious or not, while the Russian government published results of its Sputnik V vaccine, claiming it is more than 95 per cent efficient 42 days after the first dose. Read on to for the full insight.

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Keeping tabs on Covid-19: Thermo Fisher Scientific antibody test is granted the CE Mark Certification and pharma cargo companies prepare for temperature-controlled vaccine delivery

The Pharma Data

The collaborating entities have claimed that having quantitative data on neutralizing antibodies would enable a better understanding of a person’s immune response following exposure to the Covid-19 virus and would support monitoring the effectiveness of vaccines available to the UK population.

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Keeping tabs on Covid-19: BetterLife embraces virtual clinical trials and Novan shares positive results from in vitro antiviral technology against SARS-CoV-2

The Pharma Data

As pharma companies search for solutions to avoid cancelling or delaying clinical trials, virtualizing trials are fast becoming commonplace during the Covid-19 pandemic. With many nationwide and regional lockdowns coming into force, virtual clinical trials are proving to be an effective way to monitor patients remotely.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

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Tom Ireland writes about the companies and technologies that are reimagining phage therapy. Over time, this dynamic leads to many, slightly different strains of both virus and host. Read it on our website here. Illustration by David S. Goodsell, RCSB Protein Data Bank and Scripps Research.

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AIM ImmunoTech Announces Availability of the ME/CFS Clinical Trial of its Drug Ampligen for Enrollment to COVID-19 ‘Long Haulers’Institutional Review Board Authorizes Public Notification for Potential Enrollment of Subjects

The Pharma Data

Given the massive pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, a virus with almost identical genetic sequence and similar in pathogenesis to the first SARS virus with persuasive emerging evidence supporting COVID-19’s SARS-CoV-2 induced chronic fatigue is following a similar pattern. If successful, this may change millions of lives for the better.”.

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Nearly half of supply chain leaders are experiencing drug shortages and disruptions due to pandemic and AI challenge aims to restart economies after lockdowns

The Pharma Data

Pharma leaders fear extreme vulnerability in end-to-end supply chain as pandemic continues, according to global survey. Explore how pharma companies and industry leaders can reset for growth in the lab beyond coronavirus in Pharma IQ ’s fourth annual edition of Smart Lab Digital. Save your early bird seat now.