Drug Research

As infections in the U.S. continue to be at high levels, the Food and Drug Administration on 13th July approved a fourth vaccination for COVID-19 prevention, authorising Novavax's coronavirus jab for emergency use in adults. The Maryland-based drugmaker's early results on...

Aspen successfully expands CMO activities with filling equipment from Syntegon At first sight, anesthetics and vaccines don’t have much in common: while the first have a narcotic effect, the latter prevent diseases from breaking out or taking a severe course....

The findings of a phase 1 trial examining a medication mixture targeting multiple mutant variants of cancer's 'death star' protein have been released by the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. In...

Citius Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a late-stage biopharmaceutical company, announced that it has selected Biorasi, LLC (Biorasi), a global clinical research organization (CRO), to help expand the company's phase 3 Mino-Lok trial to additional sites outside the United States. If approved,...

Oragenics, Inc. announced it has entered into an agreement with KBI Biopharma, Inc. for the process transfer, process optimization and cGMP manufacturing of the Company’s intranasal vaccine candidate NT-CoV2-1, which is expressed in a proprietary CHO cell line. The...

WuXi Advanced Therapies (WuXi ATU), a wholly owned subsidiary of WuXi AppTec, announced the launch of Tetracycline-Enabled Self-Silencing Adenovirus (TESSA™). This technology is a state-of-the-art novel process for transfection-free, scalable manufacture of adeno-associated virus (AAV) at Good Manufacturing Practice...

Midatech Pharma PLC, a drug delivery technology company, announced an extension of its existing R&D collaboration with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV (Janssen) originally announced on 21 July 2020. On 17 June 2021 the company announced that, using its Q-Sphera technology, it...