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Moderna COVID vaccine gets full approval for children

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Outside of the FDA, Kennedy last month abruptly fired all 17 members of an advisory panel to the CDC, replacing them with his own hand-selected advisers, who don’t all have the typical background and experience in epidemiology and vaccine science. This panel, known as ACIP for short, recommends who should receive FDA-approved vaccines.

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What FDA’s Newest Gene Therapy Approval Tells Us About Durability: How Long is Long Enough?

FDA Law Blog: Drug Discovery

Valentine — On November 22, 2022, FDA approved CSL Behring’s BLA for Hemgenix (etranacogene dezaparvovec), an AAV-based gene therapy for the treatment of adults with Hemophilia B who currently use Factor IX prophylaxis therapy, have current or historical life-threatening hemorrhage, or have repeated, serious spontaneous bleeding episodes.

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Altasciences Chosen by Virpax to Support the Development of a New Drug to Prevent Spread of Flu-like Viruses

Alta Sciences

Altasciences Chosen by Virpax to Support the Development of a New Drug to Prevent Spread of Flu-like Viruses pmjackson Wed, 09/20/2023 - 13:48 Laval, Québec, September 21, 2023 - Altasciences is pleased to have been chosen by Virpax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. We look forward to further collaboration with Virpax in the near-future.”

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New insights into the role of viral capsids in gene therapy safety

Drug Target Review

1 In 2017, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first AAV-based gene replacement therapy (Luxturna), for Leber congenital amaurosis type 2. 2 Since then, the FDA has approved four more AAV-based gene therapies—Zolgensma, Hemgenix, Elevidys and Rocktavian—for treating various diseases. Labcompare.

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Clover Biopharmaceuticals Announces Publication of Phase 1 Clinical Trial Data for its Adjuvanted COVID-19 Vaccine Candidates in The Lancet

The Pharma Data

Similar to other enveloped RNA viruses such as HIV, RSV and Influenza, SARS-CoV-2 is also an RNA virus that has a trimeric spike (S) protein on its viral envelope. Trimer-Tag© is an innovative drug development platform which allows the production of novel, covalently-trimerized fusion proteins.

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Regeneron’s COVID-19 Outpatient Trial Prospectively Demonstrates that REGN-COV2 Antibody Cocktail Significantly Reduced Virus Levels and Need for Further Medical Attention

The Pharma Data

In the overall patient group with detectable virus at baseline, the average daily reduction in viral load through day 7 was a 0.36 About REGN-COV2 REGN-COV2 is a combination of two monoclonal antibodies (REGN10933 and REGN10987) and was designed specifically to block infectivity of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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Clover Biopharmaceuticals Announces Positive Phase 1 Data for its Adjuvanted S-Trimer COVID-19 Vaccine Candidates

The Pharma Data

Similar to other enveloped RNA viruses such as HIV, RSV and Influenza, SARS-CoV-2 is also an RNA virus that has a trimeric spike (S) protein on its viral envelope. Trimer-Tag © is an innovative drug development platform which allows the production of novel, covalently-trimerized fusion proteins.