CureVac starts mRNA vaccine trial, Interprotein uses AI in drug discovery and South Korea's Chong Kun and Hanmi make clinical progress.
German biotech CureVac AG is to launch Phase I trials of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, making it the latest among a wave of mRNA specialists to join the field.
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Kostaive is the first self-amplifying mRNA COVID-19 vaccine to receive approval from the European Commission and could provide serious competition to Pfizer/BioNTech's Comirnaty and Moderna's Spikevax.
A week after a downbeat forecast at J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, the US mRNA specialist has pocketed another sizeable sum from the US Department of Health and Human Services to accelerate development of an H5N1 mRNA pandemic influenza vaccine.
Pfizer’s and Moderna’s quarterly pandemic-related product sales could not mask other weaknesses while GSK’s quarter was marred by unimpressive non-pandemic vaccines sales.
Japanese distributor Meiji Seika Pharma is considering possible legal action against what it views as online slander around COVID-19 vaccine Kostaive, which received its global-first approval in Japan last year and has now been launched for regular vaccination in the country.
Announcing increased full-year earnings guidance and another dividend increase, Johnson & Johnson’s stock price weakened, outweighed by concerns about the replacement of Stelara revenues and possible drug import tariffs.
Regeneron is disappointed by the knock-back for longer dosing intervals for its high-dose version of Eylea, but its supplemental application for a more commercially important shorter four-week regimen has received a priority review.
A brand new R&D center in Massachusetts and a giant manufacturing site for its future obesity drugs are among the key investments in the US.
