Coronavirus Notebook: EMA Begins Assessing AZ’s Evusheld, Apeiron Starts Phase I Trial Of Inhaled APN01

The UK has explained its strategy for administering COVID-19 vaccines to people who have been partially immunized abroad.

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Apeiron Biologics is trialing an inhaled product for COVID-19 • Source: Shutterstock

The European Medicines Agency has begun a rolling review of another monoclonal antibody (MAb) combination product for the prevention of COVID-19, this time AstraZeneca PLC’s Evusheld, which contains tixagevimab and cilgavimab.

The agency’s human drugs committee, the CHMP, started the rolling review based on preliminary results from clinical studies that suggest the product could help to protect against the disease in...

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