Little more than a year since FDA approval of its COVID-19 vaccine, Pfizer Inc. has published final phase II/III data on its oral antiviral candidate, Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir + ritonavir), confirming that, for non-hospitalized, high-risk adults with COVID-19, taking the drug within three days of symptom onset reduced all-cause risk of hospitalization or death by 89% vs. placebo.
While biopharma companies across the world pulled out all the stops in 2021 to develop and manufacture COVID-19 vaccines and therapies, the pandemic highlighted supply chain weaknesses, spurring demands in many countries for more domestic manufacturing and less reliance on production in other countries.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Bridge to Life, Healthtrackrx, Klox, Medtronic, Roche.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Astrazeneca, Biohaven, Cellular Biomedicine, Egetis, Enlivex, Genmab, Janssen, Novavax, Nurix, Nuvation, Pfizer, Therapeuticsmd, Veru.
In 2021, progress on preventing and treating COVID-19 was a seemingly endless series of starts and stalls. In spite of the high-profile stumbles, science and finance took startling steps forward.
LONDON – There was a substantial fall in neutralization titers against the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 in the stored sera of people who had received two doses of either Astrazeneca plc’s or Pfizer Inc./Biontech SE’s COVID-19 vaccines, with some samples failing to neutralize the virus at all, according to the latest data from the U.K. Com-Cov study.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Cambridge Orthopaedic, Eurofins, Exthera, Leica, Predicate HPG, Surgicalone, Tianrong, Wilton Management.
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