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Leaders from all over the world met for a virtual summit on Monday, May 4 to pledge billions of dollars to fund development of a vaccine against COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Noticeably absent was the United States.
The Hill reports that the six or eight selected will go into clinical trials, where “health experts are looking to weed out faulty candidates and come out with three or four vaccines that clear final testing to be used by early 2021.”
Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for May 4, 2020.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration green-lit Roche’s new Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody test that will help determine whether or not people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and developed antibodies to the disease.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Gilead’s remdesivir under Emergency Use Authorization as a treatment for COVID-19 following reports the drug met its primary endpoint in a U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) clinical trial.
There’s plenty of news related to clinical trials related to COVID-19, but it does seem to be drowning out non-COVID-19-related clinical trials. Here’s a look.
Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for May 1, 2020.
Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for April 30, 2020.
Zejula, GlaxoSmithKline’s once-daily PARP inhibitor, won regulatory approval as a monotherapy maintenance treatment for women with advanced ovarian cancer whose disease is responsive to first-line platinum-based chemotherapy, regardless of biomarker status.
Shares of Eagle Pharmaceuticals and Teva Pharmaceuticals are climbing following a favorable ruling in U.S. District Court that protects the patent for cancer drug Bendeka from generic competition through 2031.
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