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Cancer vaccine shows sustained improvement in survival rates

Drug Discovery World

Cancer vaccine mRNA-4157 (V940) in combination with Keytruda reduced the risk of recurrence or death by 49% in patients with resected high-risk melanoma, according to follow-up data presented at ASCO 2024. Ultimately it will contribute to survival rates improving continually over the next decades and more.” months after initial treatment.

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Merck and Moderna to develop a personalised cancer vaccine

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Merck (MSD) and Moderna have revealed plans to work together on the development and commercialisation of an investigational personalised cancer vaccine. The companies will report data from the ongoing Phase II trial of mRNA-4157/V940 in combination with KEYTRUDA in high-risk melanoma later this year. “We

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Merck and Moderna to jointly develop personalised cancer vaccine 

Drug Discovery World

Merck has exercised its option to jointly develop and commercialise personalised cancer vaccine (PCV) mRNA-4157/V940 pursuant to the terms of its existing collaboration and license agreement with Moderna. . KEYNOTE-942 is an ongoing randomised, open-label Phase II trial that enrolled 157 patients with high-risk melanoma.

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What will the 2023 drug discovery landscape look like?

Drug Discovery World

Virtual clinical trials ‘Virtual’ and ‘technology’ are concepts which are readily exchanged in this industry, but these are more than just buzzwords. The overall virtual clinical trials market is currently valued at $7.8 In early November 2022, two Alzheimer’s drugs were tested head-to-head in a first-ever virtual clinical trial 3.

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Merck Announces Positive Topline Results from Two Additional Phase 3 Adult Studies Evaluating V114, Merck’s Investigational 15-valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine

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.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced findings from two additional Phase 3 studies evaluating the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of V114, the company’s investigational 15-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. among adults 65 years of age or older.

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Regeneron’s Antibody Cocktail Shows Success in Preventing COVID-19 in Phase 3 Study | 2021-01-26

The Pharma Data

In what looks like a breakthrough for COVID-19 treatments, Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody cocktail REGEN-COV (casirivimab and imdevimab) cut infection rates in half and provided full protection against symptomatic COVID-19, according to interim results from a phase 3 trial evaluating the treatment as a passive vaccine.

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Merck Discontinues Development of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Vaccine Candidates; Continues Development of Two Investigational Therapeutic Candidates

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(NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the company is discontinuing development of its SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 vaccine candidates, V590 and V591, and plans to focus its SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 research strategy and production capabilities on advancing two therapeutic candidates, MK-4482 and MK-7110.

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