Rounding out a year of insider trading charges involving biopharma companies, the U.S. SEC reported Dec. 30 that it had filed a complaint against two top Humanigen Inc. executives, Cameron Durrant, CEO, and Dale Chappell, chief science officer,
for trades based on insider knowledge of FDA actions.
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Novel vaccines that can effectively target both coronaviruses and influenza viruses would be desirable to counteract the significant health burden these respiratory pathogens pose.
Biontech SE agreed to pay up to nearly $1.26 billion in two separate settlements to resolve royalty disputes with the U.S. NIH and the University of Pennsylvania related to the COVID-19 vaccine the company partnered with Pfizer Inc.
Sunshine Biopharma Inc. announced it has developed an orally active protease inhibitor that showed dose-dependent antiviral activity in mice infected with SARS-CoV-2.
The Agency for Science Technology & Research (A*STAR) Bioprocessing Technology Institute has patented 3C-like proteinase (3CLpro; Mpro; nsp5) (coronavirus) inhibitors.