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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...

Lonza, a specialty CDMO partner to the biopharma industry, today inaugurated the first of two manufacturing suites for antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) drug-linker (payload) manufacturing at the Visp (CH) site. This first manufacturing suite handles compounds with occupational exposure levels...

Supplier of integrated pharmaceutical manufacturing solutions, ACG, has revealed in a Nov. 3, 2020 press release, that it has acquired a significant stake in IQGEN-X, a Mumbai-based start-up contract research organization (CRO). The investment supports ACG’s augmentation into R&D and...