AstraZeneca's eagerly awaited COVID-19 vaccine passes large test, but confirmation needed Pfizer reports strong T-cell response to COVID-19 vaccine The top 10 highest paid biopharma R&D executives in 2019 Sponsored: Rise in Targeted Therapies Drives Need for Flexible Small-Volume Manufacturing Synairgen shares soar 300% on COVID-19 treatment, but caveats abound GSK hands CureVac $294M to form mRNA infectious disease pact Ex-Genzyme boss Meeker hops from KSQ to Rhythm Pharmaceuticals What makes cancer patients resistant to immuno-oncology drugs? Protein signals offer a clue FDA opens door to 'batch testing' for COVID-19 with new green lights for Quest Diagnostics Featured Story | By Ben Adams As Moderna, Pfizer and BioNTech have this month been busy releasing early data out of their COVID-19 vaccine programs, AstraZeneca is now joining the July data drop. read more |
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Top Stories By Nick Paul Taylor Pfizer and BioNTech have shared (PDF) phase 1/2 data suggesting their COVID-19 vaccine triggers stronger CD8 T-cell responses than Moderna’s rival candidate. Four-fifths of subjects who received BNT162b1 had vaccine-induced CD8 T-cell responses and researchers classed most of the responses as strong. read more By Amirah Al Idrus Given drugmakers’ reliance on their R&D organizations, you might expect the companies with the biggest R&D budgets to match those paying their chief scientists the most. But that theory doesn’t hold up. For starters, Regeneron’s George Yancopoulos who topped this list with $20.7 million, but the company’s research spend didn’t even make it into 2019’s top 10. read more By Patheon, by Thermo Fisher Scientific Ensuring cohesion between drug substance chemists & drug product formulators is critical to manage risks & maximize rewards of transforming less soluble & bioavailable molecules into effective drugs. read more By Ben Adams A U.K. biotech has seen its shares skyrocket on new data from its experimental treatment in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, but it’s too early for game-changer cliches. read more By Nick Paul Taylor GlaxoSmithKline has handed CureVac £234 million ($294 million) to collaborate on the use of mRNA to prevent and treat infectious diseases. The deal, which excludes CureVac’s COVID-19 vaccine, sets GSK up to source up to five clinical-phase mRNA-based vaccines and monoclonal antibodies. read more By Amirah Al Idrus After a game of executive musical chairs, David Meeker, M.D., is taking the helm of obesity-focused Rhythm Pharmaceuticals. He takes over from Hunter Smith, the biotech’s chief financial officer who had been filling in as president and CEO since March after former chief Keith Gottesdiener stepped down. read more By Arlene Weintraub University of Pittsburgh researchers found a correlation between the cell-surface protein LAG-3 and another protein called ADAM-10 that could portend a poor response to PD-1 checkpoint blocking drugs in cancer. They believe their findings could improve ongoing efforts to target LAG-3 in cancer. read more By Conor Hale The FDA authorized its first COVID-19 diagnostic test for use with pools of samples in a move to let laboratories conserve resources by evaluating groups of people at once. read more | | Capture more value with your biotech equity Strategic planning for your early stage equity can result in a tax savings of up to $10 million as Qualified Small Business Stock. Harness works with serial scientific co-founders from top academic institutions and high growth company executives to find specialized financial advisors to help them capture more equity value. Get started now. |
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