NEW DELHI – If India’s government has its way, the country could launch a vaccine for COVID-19 in mid-August, an extremely short deadline that has caused controversy and pushed companies to speed up their development and the trials of prospective vaccines.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Acasti, Ascletis, Eisai, Fortress, Janssen, Redhill, Revive, Roche, Sound.
Biopharma happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Axovant, Biontech, Harbour Biomed, Hoth, Immunoprecise, Isoprene, Nicox, Oxford, Qilu, Regeneron, Sesen, Viva, Visufarma.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Arcutis, Baudax, Endo, Highlight, Horizon, Ico, Pfizer.
HONG KONG – Suwon-based Olix Pharmaceuticals Inc. is completing the final preclinical work before starting clinical trials for its as-yet-unnamed COVID-19 drug candidate, developed inside three months using RNA interference (RNAi) technology.
Six months to the day that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a public health emergency, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with its hideous red spikes, continues to taunt the world, hopping from host to host and haunting humans, many of whom wonder the same thing: What’s next?
By filing an IND with the FDA to initiate a phase II/III study of EB-05, a monoclonal antibody, Edesa Biotech Inc. joined the handful of companies developing COVID-19 treatments that inhibit Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) signaling. The Toronto-based company’s stock (NASDAQ:EDSA) responded by rocketing 81.38% upward Thursday to close at $9.45, after trading as high as $19.10.
Biopharma happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Affinity, Altum, American Gene Technologies, Appili, Betterlife, Cerevel, FSD, Gen1e, Inovio, Johnson & Johnson, Neurotrope, Nichi-Iko, Pharvaris, PDL, Takeda, Teva, Worldwide Clinical Trials.
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