Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Abeona, Atox, Center Laboratories, DBV, Gilead, Macrogenics, Sedana, Sosei, Tonix, Ziopharm.

Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Acer, Bayer, Biogen, Enanta, Ideaya, JS Innopharm.

Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Abeona, Angion, Athera, Constant, Eikonizo, Invectys, Moderna, Nextcure, Palatin, PTC, Regenxbio, Ridgeback, Vaccinex, Ziopharm.

Bharat Biotech International Ltd. has successfully developed India’s first indigenous vaccine candidate for COVID-19 to enter human trials. Named Covaxin, the vaccine has been cleared by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) and Ministry of Health & Family Welfare for phase I and II trials after the company submitted positive preclinical study results regarding safety and immune response.

Corvus Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s success in treating a COVID-19 patient previously diagnosed with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with CPI-006 helped boost shares (NASDAQ:CRVS) to $4.96, up $2.21, or 181%, as the Burlingame, Calif.-based company disclosed the start of a phase I study to investigate the anti-CD73 immunotherapy prospect.

Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Algernon, Annovis, Apellis, Cohbar, Corvus, Curis, Cyteir, Entera, Evive, Lipidor, Inmed, Novocure, Onconova, Otonomy, Outlook, Viiv.

Missing the primary endpoint along with key secondary endpoints in a phase III trial of Kevzara (sarilumab), an interleukin-6 (IL-6) receptor antibody, for treating COVID-19 patients who need mechanical ventilation caused Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Sanofi SA to halt the study.

Geneva-based Obseva SA’s top-line data from the pivotal phase III studies called Primrose 1 and 2 with GnRH antagonist Yselty (linzagolix) pleased the company, but Wall Street not so much.