Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Artiva, Biophytis, Bluebird, Servier, Sonnet, US Worldmeds.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Futura, Georgiamune, Lemonex, Precigen, Virios.
Novavax Inc. has signed off 6.5 million shares to SK Bioscience Co. Ltd. for an $85 million equity investment from the South Korean pharmaceutical firm, which also wrote off some of Novavax’s manufacturing liabilities, as part of their continuing vaccine alliance. Seongnam-si, South Korea-based SK Bioscience purchased Novavax shares at $13 each, reflecting a 59% premium over the 90-day trading value, to gain a 6.45% stake in the Gaithersburg, Md.-based mRNA vaccine company, an SK Bioscience spokesperson confirmed to BioWorld.
Building on capabilities developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.K. Health Security Agency’s Vaccine Development and Evaluation Centre hit the ground running.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Aiviva, Apogee, Bavarian Nordic, Halia, Humanigen, Nektar, Passage, Praxis, Tonix, Vistagen.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Hipra, M8, Molecular Targeting, Satellos.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Cybin, Enlivex, Ideaya, Immunis, India Globalization, Inimmune, Oculis, Theriva.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Bridgebio, Biohaven, Citius, GC, Harm Reduction, Invectys, Marinus, Merck & Co., Moberg, Nanjing Leads, Redhill, Spero, Transcenta.
Clinical data in the first half of 2023 is up 1.51% compared to the same time period last year. So far in 2023 BioWorld reported on 1,810 drugs in phase I-III, compared to 1,783 in the first half of 2022. The number of trial updates is down 13.6% from the 2,095 in 2021, but more than 2020’s 1,799 and 2019’s 1,477.