BioSpace News Archive

Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) unanimously voted in favor of updates to pneumococcal vaccination recommendations for adults 65 years and older, and for adults ages 19 to 64 with certain underlying medical conditions.

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took action to expand the use of a booster dose for COVID-19 vaccines in eligible populations.

MorphoSys AG (FSE:MOR)(NASDAQ:MOR) today announced that the first patient has been dosed in the Phase 2 IGNAZ clinical trial evaluating felzartamab for patients with Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy (IgAN).

Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq:MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized for emergency use a booster dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA-1273).

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) (the Company) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for a booster dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine for adults aged 18 and older at least two months following primary vaccination with single-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine;

Ventyx Biosciences, Inc. (“Ventyx”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on advancing new therapies for millions of patients living with inflammatory diseases and autoimmune disorders, today announced the pricing of its upsized initial public offering of 9,472,656 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $16.00 per share.

GlaxoSmithKline plc today announced that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted unanimously to recommend two doses of Shingrix (Zoster Vaccine Recombinant, Adjuvanted).

Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc. announced that the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors and the Company’s Board of Directors approved inducement grants of stock options to purchase an aggregate of 57,200 shares of Arcturus’ common stock to 5 newly-hired employees, contingent upon the filing of a Form S-8 Registration Statement.

On September 2, 2021, a scientific paper from GenKOre on the new hypercompact CRISPR system called CRISPR/Cas12f-GE was published in an online issue of Nature Biotechnology, one of the world’s top-tier biotechnology journals.

HistoIndex, a global leading artificial intelligence digital pathology (AI-DP) provider, has announced a collaboration with Galecto, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on the development of novel treatments for fibrosis and cancer.