Citing the need to protect the public interest, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ordered an immediate government-wide funding suspension May 15 of Ecohealth Alliance Inc. while formal debarment proceedings are pending against the New York-based nongovernmental organization.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Achieve, Astrazeneca, Bayer, BMS, Hutchmed, Inventiva, Marinus, Recce.
Citing the need to protect the public interest, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ordered an immediate government-wide funding suspension May 15 of Ecohealth Alliance Inc. while formal debarment proceedings are pending against the New York-based nongovernmental organization.
Osaka, Japan-based Shionogi & Co. Ltd. said May 13 that ensitrelvir fumaric acid (Xocova), its oral antiviral for COVID-19, showed no statistical difference against placebo in completely resolving 15 common COVID-19-related symptoms in a global phase III Scorpio-HR trial.
A licensing deal worth potentially up to $1.2 billion with Sanofi SA has breathed new life into Novavax Inc., which has struggled to compete in the COVID-19 space with powerhouses Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc.
Researchers at F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. have synthesized 3C-like proteinase (3CLpro, Mpro) (coronavirus) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of coronavirus acute respiratory syndrome infections.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Achieve, Calliditas, Eledon, Eyedna, Inmagene, Mirum, Moleculin, Neurogene, Neurosense, Rion, Traws, Verve.
There is still a need for developing more potent and broadly neutralizing vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 with improved durability. At the recent ESCMID meeting, Astrazeneca plc presented a new mRNA vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that encodes for self-assembling virus-like particle (VLP) antigens.
Tocris Cookson Ltd., Helmholtz Zentrum fur Infektionsforschung GmbH and University of Lübeck have described proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) comprising cereblon (CRBN) ligands covalently bonded to non-structural protein 3 (nsp3; PL-PRO) (SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19 virus) targeting moiety through linker reported to be useful for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19).
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