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Excerpt from the Press Release: WILMINGTON, Del.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ufovax, LLC, (Ufovax), a vaccine biotechnology company based on the patented One-component Self-Assembling protein NanoParticle® (1c-SApNP®) vaccine design and manufacturing platform invented by Associate Professor Jiang Zhu, PhD, of Scripps Research (La Jolla, CA), announced the advancement toward Phase I clinical trials of its next-generation SARS-CoV-2 (aka “COVID-19”)…
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Excerpt from the Article: Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute today announced they have released Coronascape (coronascape.org), a customized version of the Metascape bioinformatics platform that removes big-data analysis hurdles for biologists. Coronascape will enable scientists to interpret the growing body of big data related to COVID-19. More than 23,000 papers about COVID-19…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: LA JOLLA, Calif., Sept. 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Equillium, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQ), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing itolizumab to treat severe autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, today announced it has completed a pre-Investigational New Drug (IND) meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Coronavirus Treatment Acceleration Program (CTAP). The FDA provided…
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Excerpt from the Article: San Diego gene sequencing giant Illumina has secured government funding for a COVID-19 test that can detect the novel coronavirus in thousands of samples at once, according to an announcement this week from the National Institutes of Health. The NIH awarded nine companies a total of $129 million to develop rapid,…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Vaxart, Inc. (NASDAQ: VXRT), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing oral recombinant vaccines that are administered by tablet rather than by injection, today announced pre-publication of a manuscript titled “Preclinical studies of a recombinant adenoviral mucosal vaccine to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection.”…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Spero Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPRO), a multi-asset clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on identifying, developing and commercializing treatments in high unmet medical need areas involving multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial infections and rare diseases, today announced positive topline results from ADAPT-PO, the pivotal Phase 3 clinical…
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Excerpt from the Article: WASHINGTON — A group of prominent biotech CEOs are calling on their peers and the federal government to hold themselves to the highest standards when it comes to developing and reviewing Covid-19 treatments. Among their demands: That biotech companies don’t simply release clinical trial data in press releases, and that federal…
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Life Sciences Future – BioPharm will be held Wednesday, September 30 through Friday, October 2, 2020 using a robust web-based platform that includes both live and on-demand features. The conference will include the most popular event features and will focus on various topics within the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. To learn more about the event click…
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Excerpt from the Article: In a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Translate Bio indicated that the COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with Paris-based Sanofi induced an immune response in non-human studies. The companies expect to begin human clinical trials in November. On June 23, Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines business unit…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–HiFiBiO Therapeutics, a multinational biotherapeutics company focused on the development of novel antibodies for immunomodulation, announced today the submission of an Investigational New Drug (IND) application with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a novel SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. The highly…
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