Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Basilea Pharmaceutica’s license partner, Pfizer, has received a Drug Approval License from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) in China, for the oral formulation of its antifungal Cresemba® (isavuconazole).
— Post-hoc, interim analysis published in Circulation: Heart Failure evaluated patients who received continuous treatment with VYNDAQEL/VYNDAMAX compared to those…
EMA’s CHMP advice states that PAXLOVID™ (nirmatrelvir [PF-07321332] tablets and ritonavir tablets) can be used for treatment of adults with COVID-19 who do not require supplemental oxygen and who are at increased risk of progressing to severe disease
Pfizer will acquire Arena Pharmaceuticals, a clinical stage company developing innovative potential therapies for the treatment of several immuno-inflammatory diseases, Pfizer said in a press release Monday.
New finding shows that Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine can partially protect from the Omicron variant of the virus.
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) today announced that the U.S. government has purchased an additional 200 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine.
ViiV Healthcare, the global specialist HIV company majority owned by GlaxoSmithKline plc (“GSK”), with Pfizer Inc. and Shionogi Limited as shareholders, today announced the initiation of a rolling submission of a new drug application (NDA) with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for investigational, long-acting, injectable cabotegravir for the prevention of HIV, also called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP.
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.
European Commission’s decision on conditional marketing authorization is expected imminently, after the positive CHMP opinion, which will make BNT162b2 if authorized, the first COVID-19 vaccine available in the European Union.
Pfizer and BioNTech said that the FDA is expected to make a decision on Emergency Use Authorization in the coming days after giving a positive vote based on totality of scientific evidence presented by the companies, including Phase 3 efficacy and safety data, which would make BNT162b2 the first COVID-19 vaccine available in the U.S.