Barely a day before the eight new members of the U.S. CDC’s Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) are supposed to hold their first meeting, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., called for the June 25 meeting to be postponed.
Post pandemic, Moderna Inc. is broadening the applications of mRNA technology to cancer, rare diseases, latent viruses and respiratory viruses, “taking advantage” of the revenue generated by Spikevax (elasomeran), its mRNA-based vaccine for COVID-19.
Cidara Therapeutics Inc. will meet with the FDA to discuss strongly favorable phase IIb results from its randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase IIb Navigate trial testing CD-388 for the prevention of seasonal influenza in healthy, unvaccinated adults aged 18-64. Meanwhile, shares of the San Diego-based firm (NASDAQ:CDTX) closed June 23 at $44.95, up $23.93, or 113.8%, as Wall Street learned that the study met its primary endpoint, turning up a statistically significant prevention efficacy for each of three dose groups in people given a single shot at the beginning of the flu season.
The June 25-26 meeting of the U.S. CDC’s Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) will be anything but business as usual. In wiping the slate clean just two weeks before the panel was to meet, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy made sure of that.
CNCCS SCARL Collezione Nazionale Dei Composti Chimici E Centro Screening and IRBM SpA have prepared new serine protease NS3/non-structural protein 2B (NS3/NS2B) (dengue virus) and/or (West Nile virus) and/or (Zika virus) and/or Japanese encephalitis virus inhibitors.
A global consortium led by Adaptvac ApS aims to design and test a new vaccine that could offer broad protection against several filoviruses, including Zaire ebolavirus, Sudan ebolavirus and Marburg virus.
Immuno Cure Biotech Ltd. is collaborating with Pharmajet Inc. to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of its HIV therapeutic DNA vaccine, Icvax, delivered via Pharmajet's innovative Tropis needle-free injection system.
Researchers from Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Hospital Universitario de La Princesa and collaborators have developed nanoparticles loaded with poly(I:C) and used them to prime monocyte-derived dendritic cells (Nano-PIC-MDDC), which in turn activate natural killer cells to eliminate HIV-infected CD4+ T cells.
Researchers from Purdue University and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recently developed a novel influenza vaccine candidate that uses a bovine adenoviral (BAd) vector to deliver nucleoprotein (NP) antigens from both influenza A and B viruses, along with an autophagy-inducing peptide (C5) to enhance cellular immune responses, particularly T-cell responses.
The 17 members abruptly terminated June 9 from the U.S. CDC’s Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices are not going gently into the night. Instead, they’re raging against what could be the dying of the light.
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