COVID-19

Excerpt from the Article: Massachusetts General Hospital researchers have identified what’s known as a protein “signature” linked to severe health outcomes including death for people who contract COVID-19, according to an article published Tuesday in the Harvard Gazette. Researchers led by Dr. Marcia Goldberg, an MGH infectious disease expert, and Dr. Michael Filbin, an attending physician…

Excerpt from the Press Release: Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have identified the protein “signature” of severe COVID-19, which they describe in a new study published in Cell Reports Medicine. “We were interested in asking whether we could identify mechanisms that might be contributing to death in…

Excerpt from the Press Release: WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Adagio Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company developing highly differentiated antibodies to broadly neutralize coronaviruses, today announced that the first patient has been treated in the company’s Phase 2/3 pivotal trial evaluating ADG20 for the prevention of COVID-19, known as the EVADE trial. Trial initiation is supported bypositive preliminary…

Excerpt from the Press Release: BOSTON, April 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Atea Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AVIR) (“Atea”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the first patient has been dosed in the Phase 3 MORNINGSKY trial, a global multicenter trial evaluating AT-527 in mild or moderate COVID-19 patients in an outpatient setting. The trial, which…

Excerpt from the Article: Moderna, one of three companies to have a COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the U.S., isn’t resting on its accomplishments but is instead working to scale up production further and improve on its vaccine. One of the downsides of the vaccine initially was its cold-storage requirements. It is approved for storage at between 36…

Excerpt from the Press Release: EMERYVILLE, Calif., April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — DYNAVAX TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Nasdaq: DVAX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing novel vaccines, today announced Valneva SE has initiated a pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial for its inactivated, COVID-19 vaccine candidate, VLA2001, using Dynavax’s CpG 1018 adjuvant.  The Phase 3 trial “Cov-Compare”, (VLA2001-301), will compare Valneva’s SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate, VLA2001, against…

Clinical Trials Ontario has released a Clinical Trial Restart Toolkit! “This toolkit provides a collection of best practices, considerations, and resources for clinical trial conduct in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this toolkit is to provide guidance for sites and sponsors that are looking to restart clinical trials during a pandemic.…

Excerpt from the Article: COVID-19 vaccines have quickly come to the rescue. Scientists created a vaccine to prevent the new virus using foundational research and technology developed at Penn. Today, as we race to vaccinate more people in more places against COVID-19, the biology behind these vaccines is poised to change the world again: With…

Excerpt from the Press Release: MALVERN, Pa., April 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ocugen, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCGN), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing gene therapies to cure blindness diseases and developing a vaccine to save lives from COVID-19, today announced that its co-development partner, Bharat Biotech, shared positive results of the second interim analysis…

Excerpt from the Press Release: LEXINGTON, Mass., April 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Translate Bio (Nasdaq: TBIO), a clinical-stage messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics company, today announced the peer-reviewed publication of preclinical results of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, MRT5500, in the journal npj Vaccines. Preclinical evaluation of MRT5500 demonstrated a favorable immune response profile against SARS-CoV-2 and…