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September 16, 2020

The U.S. government plans to transport a coronavirus vaccine to distribution sites across the U.S. within 24 hours after the Food and Drug Administration grants an emergency authorization or approval, senior administration officials said Wednesday. The government will use medical […]

September 15, 2020

Moderna hired Lonza to make its COVID-19 vaccine in May. Initially, the CDMO will manufacture the vaccine active ingredient—an mRNA molecule in lipid nanoparticles—at plants in the United States and Switzerland. However, the firms plan to establish additional production suites […]

September 15, 2020

When asked about the biggest challenge in today’s bioprocessing, Sandy Williams, PhD, a biomedical engineering expert at Scientific Bioprocessing (SBI) in Pittsburgh who focuses on regenerative medicine, says, “The biggest concern we have heard from the industry is that bioprocessing […]

September 15, 2020

Timber Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Timber” or the “Company”) (NYSE American: TMBR), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of treatments for orphan dermatologic diseases, today announced that it has received a formal notice of allowance from the U.S. Patent […]

September 14, 2020

Immune reactions caused by vaccination can help protect the organism, or sometimes may aggravate the condition. It is especially important now when multiple vaccines against COVID-19 are being developed. The top immunologists analyse types of immune response to predict what […]

September 10, 2020

The head of the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said he has “no intention” of overruling career scientists at the agency on an approval of a coronavirus vaccine even though he has the authority. FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn said […]

September 10, 2020

Corvus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRVS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced updated data from its ongoing Phase 1 study investigating the potential for CPI-006 to provide a novel immunotherapy approach for patients with COVID-19. The results demonstrated that all evaluable […]

September 9, 2020

Democratic senators on Wednesday grilled U.S. health officials about whether President Donald Trump is interfering in the development of potential coronavirus vaccines. National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins and U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams testified before the […]

September 8, 2020

Several elements of making cell therapies create significant obstacles in getting these treatments to more patients. “A main challenge for cell therapies—autologous or allogeneic—is cryopreservation in the supply chain,” says Simona Guidi, business development director at Rigenerand. “Products have a […]

September 8, 2020

It’s entirely possible that what we will be seeing most from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the month of September is related to treatments and vaccines for COVID-19. In general, the vaccines probably will not have actionable […]

September 2, 2020

As many as 40,000 people in Germany suffer from retinitis pigmentosa. This hereditary disorder is characterized by loss of photoreceptors in the retina, and can be caused by mutations in many different genes. Depending on the nature of the underlying […]

September 1, 2020

The patient experience is an important consideration in trial design. Historically, the clinical trial process runs from the top-down and is heavily controlled by clinical settings and subject to strict validation rules for data gathering and analysis. However, the data […]