Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Acticor, AI, Bavarian Nordic, Carisma, Nuvox, Roche, Tvardi.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Alcresta, Astrazeneca, Biontech, Daiichi Sankyo, Mallinckrodt, Pfizer.
Blood biomarkers have been found in patients hospitalized with acute COVID-19 that are predictive of the cognitive defects of long COVID. Post COVID-19 deficits in cognition, including brain fog, are common and debilitating. They are also clinically complex, with both objective and subjective components. In the U.K., one in eight patients received their first ever neurological or psychiatric diagnosis within six months following COVID-19.
Biontech SE and Pfizer Inc. filed a petition with the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board for an inter partes review against Moderna Inc., the latest move in an ongoing patent battle over the mRNA technology used to develop COVID-19 vaccines.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Akebia, Alentis, Astrazeneca, Bioxytran, Collegium, Comanche, Gilead, Merck, Novaliq, Taysha Gene Therapies.
The COVID-19 pandemic might be officially over, but future variants could still pose a threat, and serious health consequences of the causative virus continue to arise, a fact that has prompted the U.S. government to offer Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. about $326 million to develop and manufacture a next-generation COVID-19 monoclonal antibody therapy.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Artiva, Biophytis, Bluebird, Servier, Sonnet, US Worldmeds.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Futura, Georgiamune, Lemonex, Precigen, Virios.
Novavax Inc. has signed off 6.5 million shares to SK Bioscience Co. Ltd. for an $85 million equity investment from the South Korean pharmaceutical firm, which also wrote off some of Novavax’s manufacturing liabilities, as part of their continuing vaccine alliance. Seongnam-si, South Korea-based SK Bioscience purchased Novavax shares at $13 each, reflecting a 59% premium over the 90-day trading value, to gain a 6.45% stake in the Gaithersburg, Md.-based mRNA vaccine company, an SK Bioscience spokesperson confirmed to BioWorld.
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