Two years ago, BioWorld reported on 30 therapeutics and vaccines in development for COVID-19, about 3,000 people had died from the disease, and societal lockdowns began. Today, therapeutics and vaccines have ballooned to 1,048, deaths are at 6 million, and the world remains on edge due to highly transmissible variants and breakthrough infections. One thing remains the same: Scientists still do not know where the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated.
The U.S. is making strides in addressing the drug and device supply chain vulnerabilities revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic, but there’s still a lot of work to do to reduce dependance on sole source suppliers and foreign manufacturing, according to a new Health and Human Services (HHS) report.
SK Bioscience Ltd. is developing a vaccine intended to simultaneously immunize people against the flu and COVID-19. It is the first vaccine of its type to be developed in South Korea and will use the technology from Skycellflu, a cell-cultivated influenza vaccine developed by the Seongnam-si, South Korea-based company.
Biopharma happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Beartooth, Cantex, Cassiopea, Clover, CSL, FSD, Hitgen, Mitsubishi Tanabe, Privo, Pulmatrix, Sanofi, Seqirus, Sunshine, TFF and Vibliome.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Arrowhead, Biocryst, Centessa, Innovent, Insilico, Jacobio, Lysogene, Point, Regulus, Sarepta, Simcere, TFF, Trevi, Vaxcyte.
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