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Relief Therapeutics and NeuroRx released results on Tuesday from their open-label prospective study looking into RLF-100 (aviptadil) as a potential treatment for COVID-19 and respiratory failure.
To date, all the major clinical trials of vaccines against COVID-19 have been in adults.
Dyno will be responsible for the design of the novel AAV capsids that are expected to have improved functional properties for gene therapy. Roche and its subsidiary Spark Therapeutics will take the capsids and conduct preclinical studies with hopes of taking them into the clinic, and eventually to commercialization.
In August, Nestlé gobbled up Aimmune in a $2.6 billion deal, and now the food allergy-focused company will serve as the point pharmaceutical business for Nestlé Health Science.
In a Phase III study, the biologic (Dupixent) met primary and all key secondary endpoints in children ages 6 to 11 who have uncontrolled moderate-to-severe asthma.
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NASH is a metabolic disease similar to cirrhosis of the liver, but occurs in people who drink little, if any, alcoholic.
AstraZeneca signed a deal with Operation Warp Speed, the U.S. government program to advance COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, for a monoclonal antibody cocktail.
In early August, Russia became the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine.
Shares of Alkermes were up more than 12% in pre-market trading after the Ireland-based company announced late Friday that its schizophrenia drug ALKS 3831 was overwhelmingly supported by an advisory committee for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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