SWITZERLAND – Novartis has agreed to pay up to US$1.5 billion for Gyroscope Therapeutics, a U.K.-based ocular gene therapy company, as the pharmaceutical giant seeks to acquire smaller companies with…
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USA – Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Merck have temporarily suspended enrollment in a Phase 2 clinical study evaluating an investigational once-weekly oral combination treatment regimen of islatravir and lenacapavir as…
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UNITED KINGDOM – AstraZeneca, a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company has opened a billion-pound research center near the University of Cambridge hoping to build on the work in developing one of…
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SWITZERLAND -The World Health Organization has reported that COVID-19 deaths increased by 10% in Europe in the previous week, making it the only region in the world where both coronavirus…
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INDIA – The World Health Organization has granted Emergency Use Approval to India’s Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin after several rounds of discussion on the inactivated-virus vaccine. The Technical Advisory Group (TAG)…
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UNITED KINGDOM – GSK Consumer Healthcare has unveiled a three-year program to support the pharmacy profession with additional practical resources, mental health provisions, and proposed policy changes as part of…
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UNITED NATIONS – The World Health Organization has state that it is “deeply concerned” that Covid-19 vaccines, which have proven to be effective and have been approved by the global…
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ANTARCTICA – The AstraZeneca Covid vaccine has finally reached the Antarctic, nine months after it was introduced. This week, it was flown in to immunize the 23 staff members who…
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UK – Immunitas Therapeutics, a Waltham-based immuno-oncology startup, has closed a $58 million Series B financing round to continue developing its single-cell genomics-based therapies. The funding will be used to…
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UK – The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for use in children aged 12 to 17 years, weeks after the Pfizer shot was…
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