In a move to address both prevention and treatment of hepatitis B virus (HBV), Brii Biosciences Ltd. has acquired from VBI Vaccines Inc. a global exclusive license to HBV therapeutic vaccine BRII-179 (VBI-2601) and an exclusive license for HBV prophylactic vaccine Prehevbri in the Asia Pacific region, excluding Japan.
Researchers at Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica and the Wuhan Institute of Virology Chinese Academy of Sciences have prepared and tested cyclic bisbenzyl tetrahydroisoquinoline compounds reported to be useful for the treatment of fibrosis, viral infections and inflammatory disorders.
Rapid point-of-care diagnostics company Lumos Diagnostics Inc. saw its stock shoot up 327% on the news that it finally gained U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance for its Febridx rapid, point-of-care test for bacterial infections. Febridx is a finger prick blood test that can indicate if a person has a bacterial or viral acute respiratory infection within 10 minutes.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded Evotec SE’s subsidiary Just-Evotec Biologics Inc. a contract valued up to US$74 million for the rapid development of monoclonal antibody (MAb)-based drug product prototypes targeting orthopoxviruses.
Parasitic diseases caused by trypanosomatid protozoa have long been treated with traditional methods. However, the effectiveness of current treatments for leishmaniasis is limited. Some are toxic, or have been abandoned, such as in the cases of Chagas disease and human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), commonly known as sleeping sickness.
National Taiwan University researchers reported the identification of a novel sorafenib derivative, SCB-24, which has the potential to be a new antimicrobial therapeutic.
Researchers from Virion Therapeutics LLC and The Wistar Institute presented preclinical data for VRON-0200, a novel therapeutic vaccine candidate being developed to achieve functional cure of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection.
SK Bioscience Ltd. and Sanofi Pasteur SA announced June 30 positive results from a phase II study for its 21-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) candidate called GBP-410, or SP-0202 under Sanofi.
Scripps Research Institute has described nucleoside analogues acting as prodrugs reported to be useful for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19).
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