Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Alzprotect, Astrocyte, Bavarian Nordic, Clearmind, Cybin, Imunon, Innocare, Pacira, Pepgen, Pfizer, Prilenia, Psyence, Puretech.
Shionogi & Co. Ltd., of Osaka, Japan, gained standard approval from Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare for Xocova (ensitrelvir fumaric acid) on March 5, making it the first COVID-19 antiviral to win full approval in the country.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Akero, Atai, Audion, Avidity, Berlin, Biocardia, Neurogene, Novartis, Nrx, Solascure, Ultimovacs, Vaxcyte, Vivoryon.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Akston, CG Oncology, Curadev, Healis, Imunon, Janux, Recce, Tonix, Viking.
Unless there’s a last-minute meeting of the minds, it looks like any extension of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) five-year intellectual property waiver for COVID-19 vaccines will be shelved, at least for now.
The biological processes giving rise to the central nervous system symptoms of long COVID remain a mystery. But multiple studies suggest they do not appear to be a result of a direct viral infection of brain tissue. The latest such research, which appeared online in Nature Neuroscience on Feb. 16, 2024, demonstrated that local immune response in brain tissues persisted long after SARS-CoV-2 virus had disappeared.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Caliway, Cardiol, Diamyd, Healthbio, Ionis, Mesoblast.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Avicanna, Biogen, Calcimedica, Candel, Crispr, Edgewise, Krystal, Lineage, Lykos, Rocket, Trawsfynydd.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: 4DMT, AN2, Anixa, Cervomed, Connecta, Gritstone, Larimar, Mediwound, Nuvalent, Nuvig, Polypid, Shionogi.