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Many companies appear to be getting their clinical trial news updated ahead of the holidays. Here’s a look.
On Wednesday, Sage Therapeutics and Samsung Biologics announced that they had found just that in their new chief executive officers.
Biopharma and life sciences companies from across the globe provide updates on their businesses and pipelines.
Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for December 15, 2020.
It was an unusually busy week for clinical trial updates, largely because of the annual ASH meeting from Sunday December 5 through Wednesday December 9. There were also other meetings and the usual corporate updates.
AstraZeneca, which is jointly developing a COVID-19 vaccine with the University of Oxford, plans to begin clinical trials testing its vaccine in combination with Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine by the end of the year.
Viruses mutate, and SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is not different. Luckily, it appears to mutate relatively slowly. Meanwhile, researchers are beginning to get a grip on the virus’s evolution.
Biopharma and life sciences companies from across the globe provide updates on their businesses and pipelines.
The COVID-19 vaccine under development by China’s Sinopharm is showing efficacy of 86%, health authorities from the United Arab Emirates reported this morning.
SciNeuro Pharmaceuticals, based in Shanghai, China, launched with a $100 million Series A financing.
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