Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Alligator, Edesa, Eureka, Galecto, IMV, Intercept, Kinarus, Rocket, Tearclear, Trefoil, Zealand.
Maxwell Biosciences Inc. has announced data on the utility of its Claromer drug discovery platform for the treatment and prevention of SARS-CoV-2, and potentially other respiratory viruses, through a series of preclinical in vitro and in vivo studies.
The 2022 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award has been awarded to Richard Hynes, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Erkki Ruoslahti, of the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, and Timothy Springer, of Harvard Medical School “for discoveries concerning the integrins, key mediators of cell-matrix and cell-cell adhesion in physiology and disease.”
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Altimmune, Alumis, CNS, Eisai, Evommune, SAB, Shanghai Henlius, Shionogi, Sparrow.
The COVID-19 pandemic may or may not be over, depending on which member of the U.S. government’s executive branch one asks, but the FDA’s device center has drawn much tighter lines around its emergency use authorization (EUA) program for COVID-19 tests.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Aqualung, Atea, Catalym, Everest, Pfizer, Y-mabs.
Biopharma happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: AC Immune, Amerisourcebergen, Celsion, Cytrx, Lipocine, Navigo, Novavax, Outlook, Sciwind, Seagen, Synerk, Zai.
Valneva SE is approaching a crucial point with its troubled efforts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, having announced Sept. 26 it’s in talks with a potential partner for its next-generation jab. The company cautioned the negotiations could take several months and may not succeed. The company’s problems with its COVID-19 vaccine, which is based on an inactivated whole virus, have weighed on its shares (Paris:VLA), which collapsed from a 52-week high of more than €29 (US$28.29) in December 2021 to €5.74 at the close of trading Sept. 26.
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