Biopharma happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: ABVC, Affinivax, Amniotics, Anixa, Ashvattha, Emercell, Kinarus, Onward.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: AOP, Edgewise, Engrail, Kinarus, Pharmaessentia, Ultimovacs, Xbiotech.
Instead of “Mother, may I” for COVID-19 vaccines for children 6 months through 5 years of age, the U.S. CDC is saying the correct response is “I should.” That was the recommendation June 18 from the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky wasted no time in endorsing the recommendation, which came just a day after the FDA authorized the vaccines from Moderna Inc. and Pfizer Inc.-Biontech SE for babies, toddlers and preschoolers.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Abbvie, Biontech, Cytokinetics, Excellthera, Kazia, LG Chem, Moderna, Mydecine, Novartis, Obseva, Pfizer, Rhythm, Sierra, Theramex.
Just days after U.S. FDA advisors unanimously backed use of both the Moderna Inc. and Pfizer Inc.-Biontech SE COVID-19 vaccines in children 6 months and older, the FDA has expanded emergency use authorizations for the products. Availability could follow as soon as June 21, after a meeting of the CDC’s ongoing Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, wraps up June 18.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Aquestive, Bavarian, Checkpoint, Cytokinetics, Galecto, Moleculin, Plus, Roche, Sirnaomics, Vicore.
What was billed as a U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing June 16 to get an update from top government health officials on the nation’s response to COVID-19 was, in reality, a concerted effort to get Republicans in the U.S. Senate to open the checkbook so the Biden administration could fill in the amount for more COVID-19 spending, Ranking Member Richard Burr (R-N.C.) charged as he concluded the hearing.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: 180, Biontech, Covis, Horizon, Jazz, Kintara, Moderna, Omega, Pfizer, Phanes, Redx.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Aceragen, Astrocyte, Attralus, Biogen, Clovis, Fusion, Halia, Immunic, Kymera, Pfizer, Recordati, Renibus, Scancell.
After a two-day session of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biologic Products Advisory Committee, the U.S. is within days of a long-awaited milestone of having not just one but at least two vaccines available for nearly every American. The VRBPAC voted unanimously, 21-0, June 15 to support amending the emergency use authorizations for both the Moderna Inc. and Pfizer Inc.-Biontech SE COVID-19 mRNA vaccines to allow their use in children 6 months and older.
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