Lenzilumab, Humanigen Inc.’s lead candidate, undershot statistical significance on the primary endpoint in the U.S. NIH-sponsored ACTIV-5/BET-B study of treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The Short Hills, N.J.-based company’s stock (NASDAQ:HGEN) crumpled in the wake of the results.
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Legislation that would renew the U.S. FDA’s user fee programs is stuck in process on Capitol Hill, a predicament that seems to resist resolution to date. FDA commissioner Robert Califf said on a July 12 webinar that the FDA “is a decision-making machine” that is reliant on both user fees and congressional appropriations, and that a failure on the part of Congress to act on user fee legislation may force the agency to halt new hires and possibly lay off some FDA staff.
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European regulators and health experts have recommended a second booster dose of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines for people between 60 and 79 years of age and for vulnerable people with medical conditions, as Moderna Inc. filed fresh data from its omicron subvariant-adapted shot.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Inventiva, Moleculin, Myrtelle, Optinose, Regenxbio.
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Biopharma happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Aditxt, Emergent, Entasis, F-star, Innoviva, La Jolla, Novavax, Rational, Ridgeback, Sino, Vertex.
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