August 26, 2021
Vaccination with certain Moderna vaccines suspended in Japan after contamination reports
Japan has suspended more than 1.5 milion doses of Moderna vaccine after getting contamination reports
Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Tag: COVID-19
July 16, 2021
Corvus Pharmaceuticals Discontinues Phase 3 Study of Mupadolimab (Anti-CD73) for COVID-19 Due to Vaccine Effectiveness in Reducing Hospitalizations
Mupadolimab Phase 1/1b oncology clinical trial continues, with a focus on leveraging B cell activation and enhancement of anti-viral antibodies…
June 14, 2021
Moderna and Tabuk Pharmaceuticals Partner to Commercialize Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine in Saudi Arabia
-Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, and Tabuk Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Company (a fully owned subsidiary of Astra Industrial Group), a leading Saudi pharmaceuticals company, today announced an agreement to commercialize the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine and future variant-specific booster candidates in Saudi Arabia.
April 22, 2021
Large NIH clinical trial will test polyclonal antibody therapeutic for COVID-19
A Phase 2/3 trial to evaluate a new fully-human polyclonal antibody therapeutic targeted to SARS-CoV-2, called SAB-185, has begun enrolling…
April 9, 2021
ImmunityBio Announces Single Prime hAd5 COVID-19 Vaccination Induces a 10-Fold Increase in T Cell Response Equivalent to T Cell Responses from Patients Previously Infected with SARS-CoV-2
Preliminary Phase 1b findings in participants receiving the dual antigen hAd5 S + N vaccine generated Th1 dominant S and…
March 26, 2021
AZ’s trial of AZD1222 in the US confirms vaccine efficacy
AstraZeneca’s AZD1222 got positive high-level results from the primary analysis of the Phase III trial which in the US have confirmed vaccine efficacy consistent with the pre-specified interim analysis announced on Monday 22 March 2021.
March 25, 2021
Scientists find evidence that novel coronavirus infects the mouth’s cells
An international team of scientists has found evidence that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, infects cells in the mouth.…
March 25, 2021
AstraZeneca answers accusation to stockpiling vaccines; 13M doses for COVAX, 16M for Europe
AstraZeneca has denied accusations of stockpiling vaccines stating that the process of manufacturing vaccines is very complex and time consuming…
March 23, 2021
Pfizer Initiates Phase 1 Study of Novel Oral Antiviral Therapeutic Agent Against SARS-CoV-2
This is the first orally administered coronavirus-specific investigational protease inhibitor to be evaluated in clinical studies, and follows Pfizer’s intravenously administered investigational protease inhibitor, which is currently being evaluated in a Phase 1b multi-dose study in hospitalized clinical trial participants with COVID-19.
March 23, 2021
Investigational AstraZeneca vaccine prevents COVID-19
Results from a large clinical trial in the United States and South America indicate that AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, AZD1222, is…