Vaxxinity Inc. priced its IPO below the targeted range, selling 6 million shares (NASDAQ:VAXX) at $13 each for proceeds of $78 million, but came out of the gate impressively, closing at $16.55, up $3.55, or 27%, after reaching $22.77 during the day.
The U.S. NIH said it will go to court if necessary to defend its role in developing Moderna Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine. NIH spokeswoman Renate Myles told BioWorld that the agency “is not giving up on our claim that NIH is a co-inventor on the mRNA technology used in the Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine but defers to legal authorities on how this might be resolved.”
The University of Oxford has begun recruiting for a phase I Ebola vaccine trial, with the first vaccinations based around the same technology as the university’s COVID-19 vaccine.
LONDON – Intensive monitoring of health care workers at two hospitals in London showed that despite having a blood biomarker of infection, 58 of them did not test positive for COVID-19 at any point, suggesting they may have been clearing subclinical infections before seroconversion.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Ascletis, Enlivex, Evofem, Iveena, Kalvista, Kyowa, Mei, Moderna, Modus, Pfizer, Promore, Sofie.
India is home to just one of several regulatory entities that have overhauled their med-tech regulatory apparatus in recent years, but the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) has also joined the COVID-19 regulatory delay club as well.
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