USA – Vir Biotechnology and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have collaborated to develop broadly neutralizing antibodies with a vaccinal effect for HIV treatment and malaria prevention. According to…
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USA – Verana Health, a digital health company, has announced US$150 million Series E round led by Johnson & Johnson Innovation and Novo Growth. Growth investment arm and included participation…
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SWITZERLAND – The FDA approved Swiss biotech Idorsia’s first drug, known commercially as Quviviq, for the treatment of adults suffering from insomnia. The medication belongs to a new class of…
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USA – A group of institutional investors is urging companies to tie CEO pay to equitable access to the COVID vaccine. Pay packages for CEOs at COVID vaccine makers Pfizer,…
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SOUTH AFRICA – Aspen Pharmacare has made known plans to enter into a licensing agreement with Johnson & Johnson allowing the South African drug company to make its own-branded Covid-19…
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USA – DePuy Synthes, a division of Johnson & Johnson has announced the acquisition of OrthoSpin through its Synthes GmbH affiliate. OrthoSpin, based in Israel, creates a robot-assisted external fixation…
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USA – Johnson & Johnson, the world’s largest health-care conglomerate, has announced plans to separate its consumer products business from its pharmaceutical and medical device operations, resulting in the formation…
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USA – The world’s major Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers have announced that they are working quickly to investigate and adapt their vaccines to a new and highly mutated strain of the…
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DENMARK – Novo Nordisk, a Danish pharmaceutical company, has agreed to buy Dicerna Pharmaceuticals for US$3.3 billion in cash, the company has announced. Dicerna Pharmaceuticals creates RNAi-based therapies that selectively…
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NETHERLANDS – The European Union’s drug regulator has said that it could make a decision on Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine approval “within weeks” if the data it has received from the…
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