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The head biosafety expert for China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention has claimed that the country could have a vaccine ready for general population use as soon as November, touting the country’s rapid progress on COVID-19 vaccine development. Read More
Novavax has expanded its COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing agreement with the Serum Institute of India to produce more than 2 billion doses of the vaccine annually. Read More
In letters sent yesterday, leaders of the House Energy and Commerce committee urged nine companies developing COVID-19 vaccines to uphold their pledge to maintain high ethical standards and to commit to transparency in making all clinical trial data on their vaccines publicly available. Read More
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is deeply concerned that an unexplained patient illness under review in AstraZeneca (AZ)’s phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trial could throw the promising candidate off course, and the NIH has opened its own investigation into the issue, an NIH clinical director has disclosed. Read More
Neurocrine Biosciences has finally launched its once-daily Parkinson’s disease add-on treatment Ongentys (opicapone) in the U.S. following months of delay brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More
Gilead Sciences has announced that it will spend $21 billion to acquire New Jersey drugmaker Immunomedics as part of its ongoing expansion into immune-oncology treatments. Read More
China’s state-owned pharmaceutical company, Sinopharm, said that it has already vaccinated hundreds of thousands in the country with its COVID-19 vaccine candidates, even though its phase 3 trials have not yet wrapped up. Read More
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ investigational COVID-19 antibody cocktail has been added to the UK’s RECOVERY trial aimed at finding effective treatments. Read More
A late-stage trial of Eli Lilly’s rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment Olumiant (baricitinib) and Gilead Sciences’ remdesivir found that the combination reduced recovery time in hospitalized COVID-19 patients compared to remdesivir alone. Read More