The European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM) has published three new Official Control Authority Batch Release (OCABR) guidelines in preparation for the first three vaccines likely to be launched in Europe.
The clear evidence of increased risk of COVID-19 infection amongst ethnic minority groups, people from Black and Asian backgrounds, is of urgent public health importance, according to the authors of a paper published today by The Lancet.
Agenus Inc, an immuno-oncology company with a pipeline of agents designed to activate immune response to cancers and infectious diseases, has reported the dosing of the first COVID-19 patient with agenT-797, an allogeneic cell therapy, through its subsidiary,...
The European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and Healthcare (EDQM) has published a text on analytical strategy options for the control of COVID-19 recombinant viral vectored vaccines.
Sanofi is eying up the European biopharmaceutical company’s proprietary next generation natural killer (K-NK) cell platform and pipeline of cell-based cancer immune-therapeutics and infectious disease therapies.
Thermo Fisher Scientific is seeing “very, very significant demand” for its cold storage range as the race to get COVID-19 vaccines to market enters its closing stages.
Novavax’s Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trial in the UK has been expanded to 15,000 participants; while a 30,000 strong Phase 3 clinical trial is due to start in the US and Mexico next month.
Johnson & Johnson says it is preparing to resume recruitment in its Phase 3 Janssen COVID-19 vaccine trial in the US: after the trial was paused because of an unexplained illness earlier this month.
A new mathematical modeling study by Ashish Goyal and colleagues, informed by data collected from 25 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in four different countries, offers some important new insights into the optimal timing of four different antiviral...
