Swissmedic, the Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products, has authorized the use of the BNT162b2 Covid-19 vaccine from US pharma giant Pfizer and German biotech company BioNTech. The Swiss pharma regulator said that as per the data it has assessed, the level of protection afforded seven days following the second dose of the mRNA vaccine is […]
Appili Therapeutics said that it has dosed the first participant in the phase 3 PRESECO clinical trial for Avigan tablets (favipiravir) for the oral treatment of Covid-19. The Canadian infectious disease biopharma company Appili is involving PRA Health Sciences as a clinical research organization (CRO) for administering the Covid-19 clinical trial at 47 outpatient sites. […]
The UK has given a temporary authorization for emergency use for the BNT162b2 Covid-19 vaccine candidate developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. The emergency use authorization (EUA) from the UK Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for the mRNA vaccine candidate follows the release of positive results of a global phase 3 trial. Pfizer and […]
Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) has signed a $375 million deal with the US government for the supply of 300,000 vials of bamlanivimab (LY-CoV555) 700mg, an investigational neutralizing antibody for the treatment of Covid-19. LY-CoV555 is the first antibody candidate to come out from Lilly’s collaboration with AbCellera Biologics, which was announced in March this […]
AstraZeneca said that clinical trials for the AZD1222 Covid-19 vaccine candidate, have resumed in various parts of the world after regulators across the US, UK, Brazil, Japan, and South Africa confirmed that it was safe to continue them. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the restart of AZD1222 clinical trials in the […]
Precision Nanosystems (PNI) has received a funding boost of up to CAD 18.2 million from the Canadian government to develop a mRNA vaccine for Covid-19. The funding from Canada’s Innovation, Science and Economic Development’s (ISED) Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) will help the Vancouver-based biotech company to move its Covid-19 mRNA vaccine candidate to clinical trials. […]
Remdesivir FDA approval : Gilead Sciences, a California-based biopharma company, has bagged approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its antiviral drug Veklury (remdesivir) for Covid-19 treatment in patients requiring hospitalization. This makes remdesivir the first approved treatment for coronavirus in the US. Remdesivir FDA approved indication : Veklury has been approved […]
Oxford University claimed that scientists from its Physics department have developed an extremely rapid diagnostic test for Covid-19. The rapid diagnostic test can detect and identify viruses within five minutes, said the UK-based university. The method can be used to differentiate the SARS-CoV-2 virus from negative clinical samples and also from other common respiratory pathogens […]
Novavax has initiated its first phase 3 clinical trial to assess the efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity of its NVX-CoV2373 COVID-19 vaccine candidate. The US vaccine development company is carrying out the late-stage trial in the UK in partnership with the UK government’s Vaccines Taskforce. The phase 3 trial of NVX-CoV2373 will aim to enroll and […]
ENSEMBLE Covid-19 vaccine trial : Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has launched a multi-nation phase 3 trial called ENSEMBLE for its JNJ-78436735 Covid-19 vaccine candidate (Ad26.COV2.S), which is being developed by its subsidiary – Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies. The US healthcare giant said that the ENSEMBLE vaccine trial has been initiated following positive interim results from its […]