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The US elections make big news whenever they occur. The fact that who comes to power has a phenomenal effect on all industries, big or small. One such industry that is bracing for the impact is the Pharmaceutical Sector....

AstraZeneca’s Calquence (acalabrutinib), a next-generation selective Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor, has been approved in the European Union (EU) for the treatment of adult patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), the most common type of leukaemia in adults. The approval...

Novavax, Inc., a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, announced that the U.S. FDA has granted Fast Track Designation for NVX-CoV2373, the Company’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate. Currently in late-phase clinical development, NVXCoV2373 is a stable,...

The researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine describe a new method to extract tiny but extremely powerful SARS-CoV-2 antibody fragments from llamas, which could be fashioned into inhalable therapeutics with the potential to prevent and treat...

Oxford Biomedica plc , a leading gene and cell therapy group and PhoreMost Limited, the UK-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing drugs against intractable disease targets, announced that they have entered into a discovery collaboration to develop next-generation CAR-T...

The global contact services sector is benefiting from a switch towards COVID-19 manufacturing (vaccine and therapy) and clinical stage contracts, but mega-cap innovator drug approvals are reducing commercial demand according to the CPhI Annual Report contract services findings. Adam Bradbury,...

Pfizer Inc. announced positive results from a Phase 3 investigational study evaluating the safety and efficacy of tofacitinib in adults with active ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Tofacitinib is not currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for...