Tag: Business and Industry

Sanofi and GSK will provide up to 300 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to the European Union

September 18, 2020todi0

Sanofi and GSK finalized and signed today an Advanced purchase agreement with the European Commission (EC) for the supply of up to 300 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, once the vaccine is approved. The vaccine candidate is based on the recombinant protein-based technology used by Sanofi to produce an influenza vaccine, and GSK’s established […]

Lilly and Amgen announce manufacturing collaboration for COVID-19 antibody therapies

September 17, 2020todi0

Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE:LLY) and Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) today announced a global antibody manufacturing collaboration to significantly increase the supply capacity available for Lilly’s potential COVID-19 therapies. Lilly is currently studying several potential neutralizing antibodies for the prevention and/or treatment of COVID-19 as either monotherapy or in combination. Through this collaboration, the two companies will […]

Pfizer and BioNTech propose expansion of pivotal COVID-19 vaccine trial

September 14, 2020todi0

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (NASDAQ: BNTX) announced that they have submitted an amended protocol to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to expand the enrollment of their Phase 3 pivotal COVID-19 vaccine trial to up to approximately 44,000 participants which also allows for the enrollment of new populations. Enrollment in the trial […]

COVID-19 vaccine AZD1222 clinical trials resumed in the UK

September 12, 2020todi0

Clinical trials for the AstraZeneca Oxford coronavirus vaccine, AZD1222, have resumed in the UK following confirmation by the Medicines Health Regulatory Authority (MHRA) that it was safe to do so. On 6 September, the standard review process triggered a voluntary pause to vaccination across all global trials to allow review of safety data by independent […]

CureVac expected to receive up to 252 million euros from the German Federal Ministry of Research for further COVID-19 vaccine development and production capacity expansion

September 10, 2020todi0

CureVac N.V. (Nasdaq: CVAC), a biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of transformative medicines based on messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) in clinical trials, has received notification from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) that CureVac is expected receive up to 252 million euros to support the development of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate. […]

Sinovac reports preliminary Phase I/II results of COVID-19 vaccine in elderly volunteers

September 10, 2020todi0

Sinovac Biotech Ltd. (NASDAQ: SVA) (“Sinovac” or the “Company”), a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, announced that the inactivated COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by Sinovac Life Sciences (Sinovac LS), or “CoronaVac,” shows good safety and immunogenicity on healthy adults aged 60 and above from its phase I/II clinical studies conducted in China, which […]

Pfizer and BioNTech announce data from preclinical studies of mRNA-based vaccine candidate against COVID-19

September 9, 2020todi0

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) today announced preliminary preclinical data in mouse and non-human primate models from their BNT162b2 mRNA-based vaccine program against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease. In a non-human primate preclinical study, immunization with the BNT162b2, a nucleoside-modified messenger RNA (modRNA) candidate, protected rhesus macaques against SARS-CoV-2 […]

Statement on AstraZeneca Oxford SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, AZD1222, COVID-19 vaccine trials temporary pause

September 9, 2020todi0

As part of the ongoing randomised, controlled clinical trials of the AstraZeneca Oxford coronavirus vaccine, AZD1222, a standard review process has been triggered, leading to the voluntary pause of vaccination across all trials to allow an independent committee to review the safety data of a single event of an unexplained illness that occurred in the […]

Biopharma leaders unite to stand with science

September 8, 2020todi0

The CEOs of AstraZeneca (LSE/STO/NYSE: AZN), BioNTech (NASDAQ: BNTX), GlaxoSmithKline plc (LSE/NYSE: GSK), Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA), Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE), and Sanofi (NASDAQ: SNY), today announced a historic pledge, outlining a united commitment […]

Johnson & Johnson announces that Janssen’s COVID-19 investigational vaccine candidate prevents severe clinical disease in pre-clinical studies

September 7, 2020todi0

Janssen’s lead SARS-CoV-2 investigational vaccine candidate, Ad26.COV2.S, prevented severe clinical disease in Syrian golden hamsters, upon challenge with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 in people. The data, published in Nature Medicine, demonstrated that the Company’s investigational adenovirus serotype 26 (Ad26) vector-based vaccineJanssen’s lead SARS-CoV-2 investigational vaccine candidate, Ad26.COV2.S, prevented severe clinical disease in Syrian […]