Tag: Pharmaceuticals

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

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 1, 2020

Experimental drugs face steep odds. According to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), out of every 5,000 to 10,000 compounds that enter the discovery and development pipeline, just 5 enter clinical trials, and only 1 receives approval. Other […]

August 28, 2020

AstraZeneca has been on roll lately, inking COVID-19 vaccine supply deals left and right with countries worldwide. One of its highest-profile pacts—a purchase deal with the European Union—was made official earlier this month, and now, the trading bloc has floated […]

August 13, 2020

High demand for a safe and effective vaccine against the coronavirus is already causing competition between countries and could drive prices higher, the World Health Organization’s top official warned Thursday. “When a successful new vaccine is found, there will be […]

August 12, 2020

Phio Pharmaceuticals Corp. (Nasdaq: PHIO), a biotechnology company developing the next generation of immuno-oncology therapeutics based on its proprietary self-delivering RNAi (INTASYL™) therapeutic platform, today reported its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2020 and provided a business […]

August 7, 2020

As the pharma industry stands firm in its commitment to advance the sector to fight Covid-19, news has emerged from the European Commission who intend to streamline the development of therapies using genetically modified organisms to treat Covid-19. The governing […]

July 21, 2020

As the world waits anxiously for more effective COVID-19 treatments and for a vaccine to halt the pandemic, analysts on all sides are examining appropriate pricing models for these critical products. Gilead’s $3000 price tag on remdesivir ($2300 for US […]

July 21, 2020

Scientists who have identified the early smallpox strains used to create vaccines against the disease say this type of genetic research could help efforts to develop a vaccine against the new coronavirus. Smallpox was among the most dangerous viral diseases […]

July 20, 2020

Researchers from AstraZeneca, the University of Oxford, and its spinout company Vaccitech today published preliminary Phase I/II data showing their closely-watched COVID-19 vaccine candidate AZD1222 (formerly ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) to have an acceptable safety profile, and favorable immunogenicity against the virus. […]

July 17, 2020

The FDA has granted priority review status to Merck’s vericiguat, teeing the Big Pharma to receive an approval decision early next year. Vericiguat, which Merck partnered on with Bayer in a $1 billion deal, will enter the increasingly congested heart […]

July 16, 2020

Fierce 15 winner Relay Therapeutics has pulled off a major upsized IPO worth $400 million to propel a pipeline of treatments aiming at previously undruggable targets. The $400 million figure is a lucky one for the biotech, given it’s also […]