The European Medicines Agency’s safety committee (PRAC) says a warning about unusual blood clots with low blood platelets should be added to the product information for COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen: but says the benefit-risk analysis for the vaccine remains...
SparingVision will acquire GAMUT Therapeutics, the biotech behind a gene-independent approach to treat the later stages of rod-cone dystrophies such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP).
The European Union has exercised its option, under a previous agreement, to order 100 million additional doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, Comirnaty.
Emergent BioSolutions, a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has agreed with the US FDA not to manufacture any new COVID-19 vaccine materials at its Bayview facility in Baltimore, Maryland, while the regulator investigates the...
Efficiency in the biopharmaceutical space has never been more top-of-mind. The COVID-19 pandemic brought an unprecedented urgency to R&D and the key players delivered: Several groups produced a vaccine in record time. To maintain and improve on this...
The UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) says that pregnant women should be offered either the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.
Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) experts shared research findings in plenary talks during the American Association for Cancer Research’s (AACR) virtual meeting last week, with one talk reviewing the latest strategies for boosting the effectiveness of CAR...
US pharma group, Lilly, has requested the US FDA revoke the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for bamlanivimab 700 mg alone due to the evolving variant landscape in the US.
Sterling Pharma Solutions, a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has acquired ADC Biotechnology (ADC Bio), a UK based company specializing in antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs).
Moderna will take mRNA flu and HIV vaccines into Phase 1 trials this year, as well as beginning a pivotal Phase 3 study for its cytomegalovirus (CMV) vaccine candidate.
Single-cell sequencing has helped with the understanding of the patterns of immune cells, which could help advance development of new therapies and new therapeutic targets, says a cancer research expert.
A UK study, which has been trialing the combination of Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccine doses, is now extending the program to include Moderna and Novavax vaccines.
