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Ionis Pharmaceuticals announced that its collaboration partner, Roche, was discontinuing dosing in the Phase III GENERATION HD1 trial of tominersen in manifest Huntington’s disease (HD).
The announcement by the NIAID, a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is very unusual.
Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for March 23, 2021.
Roche’s checkpoint inhibitor Tecentriq (atezolizumab) hit the mark in the company’s Phase III IMpower010 trial of the drug compared to best supportive care in people with resectable early-stage lung cancer.
AstraZeneca reported that the U.S. Phase III trial of the vaccine, AZD1222, demonstrated an efficacy of 79% at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and 100% efficacy at preventing severe disease and hospitalization.
A COVID-19 nasal spray vaccine developed by Rokote Laboratories Finland Ltd., is preparing for Phase I trials in Finland…if it can win funding.
European genetic studies aren’t particularly accurate when applied to Middle East populations, according to new research from the Qatar Foundation.
According to an interview with Soumya Swaminathan, the WHO’s chief scientist, the new investigational COVID-19 vaccines rely on alternative technologies and systems of delivery. Some include oral and nasal administration, while others use skin patches.
Multiple pharmaceutical companies struck large licensing deals with one another this week. Here’s a look.
Every week there are numerous scientific studies published. Here’s a look at some of the more interesting ones.
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