Clinical Trials & Research News

GSK COVID-19 Antibody Elicits 85% Drop in Hospitalizations, Deaths

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Vir Biotechnology and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) are stopping a Phase 3 clinical trial of its COVID-19 antibody early after data shows “profound efficacy,” according to a recent announcement...

UK and EU Reaffirm Safety of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine

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The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA) recently reaffirmed the benefits of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine. The agencies stated that...

Eli Lilly, Biolojic to Develop Antibody Therapies for Diabetes

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Eli Lilly and Company and Biolojic Design recently announced a research agreement to discover and develop potential novel antibody therapies for the treatment of diabetes. The collaboration and...

RNA-Based Vaccine May Fully Immunize Against Malaria

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Researchers recently developed a promising new blueprint for an RNA-based vaccine for malaria, which contains similar properties as the novel RNA COVID-19 vaccines.  Novartis Pharmaceutical and...

GSK Antibody Helps Combat Respiratory Failure from COVID-19

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GSK recently announced results from a Phase 2 proof-of-concept trial evaluating its investigational monoclonal antibody treatment, otilimab.  The OSCAR study evaluated the efficacy and safety of...

Moderna Ships Doses of Variant-Specific COVID-19 Vaccine to NIH

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Moderna recently announced that it has shipped doses of its variant-specific COVID-19 vaccine candidate to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a Phase 1 clinical trial. NIAID will conduct the...

Study Finds Diversity in Clinical Trials Still Lacking

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Racial and ethnic diversity in clinical trials is lacking despite FDA recommendations regarding demographic characteristics of specific study populations, according to a recent JAMA Network Open...

Pfizer to Study COVID-19 Vaccine in Pregnant Women

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Pfizer and BioNTech recently announced that the first participants have been dosed in a global Phase 2/3 study to further evaluate their COVID-19 vaccine in healthy pregnant women. The randomized,...

bluebird bio Suspends Studies of Sickle Cell Disease Gene Therapy

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Pharmaceutical company bluebird bio recently announced that it suspended Phase 1/2 and Phase 3 studies of LentiGlobin gene therapy for sickle cell disease due to a suspected unexpected serious adverse...

GSK Doses First Patient in Phase 3 Study of RSV Vaccine Candidate

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GSK recently announced that the first patient has been dosed in a Phase 3 clinical program investigating the immunogenicity, safety, and reactogenicity of a RSV vaccine candidate for older...

AbbVie, Caribou Biosciences to Develop CAR-T Cell Therapies

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AbbVie and Caribou Biosciences recently entered into a collaboration and license agreement to research and develop chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapeutics. The companies will leverage...

FDA Approves Bristol Meyers Squibb CAR T Cell Therapy for Lymphoma

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FDA recently approved Bristol Meyer Squibb’s CAR-T cell therapy Breyanzi for the treatment of certain types of large B-cell lymphoma in patients who have not responded to previous treatment...

Siemens Healthineers Receives CE Mark for COVID-19 Antigen Test

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Siemens Healthineers recently announced that it received the CE mark to use anterior nose swab sampling for its COVID-19 antigen test. The CLINITEST Rapid COVID-19 Antigen Test is a point-of-care...

Roche to Launch Self-Administered COVID-19 Antigen Test

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Roche recently announced that it received the CE mark for its new self-administered COVID-19 antigen test, which will be available in countries accepting the CE mark by the middle of this...

Virtual Clinical Trial Kicks Off in NY to Study COVID-19 Therapy

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The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, part of Northwell Health, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) recently launched a fully virtual clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of...

Eli Lilly’s COVID-19 Antibodies Reduce Hospitalizations by 70%

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Eli Lilly and Company recently announced that its COVID-19 neutralizing antibodies reduced coronavirus-related hospitalizations and deaths in high-risk patients by 70 percent in a Phase 3...

First Patient Dosed in Trial of Two Separate COVID-19 Therapies

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Eli Lilly and Company, Vir Biotechnology, and GSK recently collaborated to evaluate a combination of two COVID-19 therapies in low-risk patients with mild to moderate coronavirus. Eli Lilly and...

GSK, Novartis to Study Genetic Diversity for Drug Development

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GSK and Novartis recently announced a research collaboration to uncover potential links between genetic diversity across regions in Africa and drug response and ultimately drug development. The...

J&J’s COVID-19 Vaccine 66% Effective in Moderate, Severe Cases

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Johnson & Johnson recently announced that a single-dose of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, Ad26.COV2.S, was 66 percent effective at preventing moderate to severe coronavirus in a Phase 3 clinical...

Moderna Doses First Patient in Japanese Study of COVID-19 Vaccine

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Moderna recently announced that clinical trial researchers have dosed the first in the Phase 1/2 study of its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, mRNA-1273, in Japan, led by Takeda Pharmaceuticals.   The...