Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Pfizer says its vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection in the first interim efficacy analysis
AstraZeneca and MSD’s Lynparza (olaparib) has been approved in the European Union (EU) for the 1st-line maintenance treatment with bevacizumab of patients with homologous recombination deficient (HRD)-positive advanced ovarian cancer.
APEIRON Biologics AG today announced that first, encouraging data with its clinical drug candidate APN01 (rhsACE2) to treat severe COVID-19 were published in the peer-reviewed journal The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
Novartis will present 48 abstracts at the upcoming MSVirtual2020: 8th Joint ACTRIMS-ECTRIMS Meeting, September 11–13, 2020. The breadth of data being presented highlights the strength and promise of the company’s MS portfolio to improve the lives of patients across the MS spectrum.
Kinnate Biopharma Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of small molecule kinase inhibitors for difficult-to-treat, genomically-defined cancers, today announced that it has raised $98 million in a Series C financing.
The FDA approved an expanded indication of ViiV Healthcare’s Dovato (dolutegravir/lamivudine), a complete two-drug regimen for virologically suppressed adults with HIV-1 with no history of treatment failure or resistance to Dovato’s components.
Ege University Medical Faculty Hospital has joined Clinerion Patient Network Explorer, improving patient access to the healthcare treatment options by joining Clinerion’s Patient Network Explorer platform.
Vetter and Rentschler Biopharma have announced joining forces to boost their services and along the biopharmaceutical value chain.
Abivax has treated the first patient in its Phase 2b/3 study of ABX464 in COVID-19 patients at the University Hospital Center in Nice, France (CHU Nice) in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, to see the the effects of early treatment in 1034 Covid-19 older or high-risk patients.
EUSA Pharma, a global biopharmaceutical company focused on oncology and rare disease, received the approval from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 3 clinical trial to test intravenous siltuximab plus standard of care in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 associated Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS).