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June is starting off with a number of important dates for the FDA, including an advisory committee meeting to discuss COVID-19 vaccines in children as young as six months.
Children under the age of five could be eligible to receive Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine against COVID-19 as soon as late June.
Germany’s CureVac is partnering with Belgium’s myNEO to identify specific cancer antigens in order to develop novel mRNA immunotherapies for cancer vaccines.
Lifting the clinical hold will allow Ocugen to continue to assess the vaccine in its ongoing study and potentially support its efforts to achieve EUA or full approval.
A small research study published in Jama shows people with a lower body mass index (BMI) tended to maintain immunity against COVID-19 longer.
Based on topline data, Pfizer stated that three doses of the COVID-19 vaccine met all immunobridging criteria required for EUA. The FDA’s advisory committee will meet June 15 to discuss the matter.
U.K. researchers found that the first dose of any vaccine was linked with an initial 12.8% decrease in the odds of Long COVID.
COVID-19 would have claimed over 110,000 more lives in 2021 if vaccines weren’t available, according to a Pfizer-sponsored report on the first year of the U.S. vaccination program.
Sofinnova Partners announced on Monday that it entered into a long-term strategic and financial partnership with Apollo to expand its presence in the life sciences.
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