Featured Story | By Amirah Al Idrus A month after scoring $1.6 billion from the U.S. government, Novavax is posting the first human data from its COVID-19 vaccine. The early data, from the phase 1 part of a phase 1/2 study, show that two dose levels of the recombinant vaccine triggered an immune response similar to those in patients who had recovered from the disease. read more |
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Top Stories By Amirah Al Idrus As the quest for COVID-19 treatments continues, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is starting an adaptive trial to test experimental antibody treatments for the disease. It’s starting with Eli Lilly and AbCellera’s candidate but could add more prospects as the trial goes on. read more By Nick Paul Taylor Zydus Cadila has completed a phase 1 clinical trial of its COVID-19 vaccine ZyCoV-D, setting it up to move straight into a 1,000-subject phase 2 study. The Indian company said the DNA vaccine was well tolerated in the first stage of the adaptive phase 1/2 trial it initiated last month. read more By Amirah Al Idrus CAR-T therapies have transformed the treatment of some blood cancers but have run into hurdles in solid tumors. Other T-cell treatments can tackle some of those challenges, but their reach remains limited. Enter Matterhorn Biosciences, Versant Ventures’ latest startup, which is developing a tumor-agnostic T-cell approach. read more By Ben Adams OrbiMed, Novartis Venture Fund and RA Capital Management have joined forces to fund and help launch GentiBio. read more By Conor Hale The FDA has turned down DBV Technologies’ peanut allergy patch treatment for children, Viaskin Peanut, raising questions about the patch's design and performance. It's the latest turn in a long, winding path toward approval for the would-be allergy therapy. read more By Angus Liu Scientists at Duke University showed that priming the immune system with a vaccine targeting an oncogenic variant of HER2 helped existing checkpoint inhibiting drugs work better in mouse models of HER2-positive breast cancer. A phase 2 clinical trial testing the theory is already underway. read more By Staff Beating back the COVID-19 pandemic will take a massive effort by talented, dedicated people in biopharma and beyond. They're working now behind the scenes—scientists, researchers, manufacturing specialists, policy experts and many more—to deliver solutions. We aim to tell their stories in a special feature this fall. And we're looking for your nominations. read more Enrollment Showcase | Presented by: Biotility Taught by experienced professionals, Biotility’s online short courses provide the knowledge and practical skills valued by the bioscience industry. Enhance your career through coursework in one of our certificate pathways, including Document Management, Operations Management, and Quality Management. Learn more. |
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