Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Avinger, Australian Biotechnologies, Elixirgen, Flowmetric, Onegevity, RenalytixAI, Ricoh, Sherlock Biosciences, Shockwave Medical, Spartech, The Commons Project, Theracell, Tolo Biotech, Tufpak.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: AB Science, Apeiron, Ascletis, Clover, Cortexyme, Precision, Takeda, Sutro.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Abbott, Caretaker Medical, Viveve.
Shares of immunotherapy developer Enlivex Therapeutics Ltd. (NASDAQ:ENLV) climbed as much as 69% Dec. 3 after interim data showed the apparent benefits of its lead candidate, Allocetra, for severe and critical COVID-19 patients.
The extraordinary speed with which mRNA technology has delivered what appear to be safe and highly efficacious vaccines for preventing COVID-19 herald the start of a “golden age of vaccinology,” according to C. Buddy Creech, director of the vaccine research program at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and principal investigator on the phase III trial of Moderna Inc.’s mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting biopharma, including: DEA gets on board with partial Rx fills; USPTO touts early results of amendment pilot; FDA posts combo product feedback final guidance.
With hospitalizations rapidly rising as the COVID-19 pandemic washes across the world in a winter wave, researchers are racing to develop treatments that protect the increasing number of ventilated patients. One option focuses on protecting muscles critical to breathing.