Johnson & Johnson has begun a second phase 3 trial of its potential COVID-19 vaccine, including sites in the UK, testing whether it works as a two-dose regimen.
UCB has made a new foray into the gene therapy space, buying fellow Belgium-based company Handl to get control of its adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsid delivery platform and two research
Swiss startup Synendos Therapeutics has raised CHF 20 million (almost $22 million) in first-round financing that will be used to develop its endocannabinoid drugs for central nervous system
Boehringer Ingelheim and South Korea’s Bridge Biotherapeutics have decided to axe their collaboration over a potential new drug for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), BBT-877.
In the second positive piece of COVID-19 vaccine news in a week, Russia’s Sputnik V candidate has been shown to be 92% effective at the interim point of a 40,000-patient study.
As the death toll from COVID19 inexorably mounts, Pfizer and BioNTech have announced that their COVID-19 vaccine candidate is more than 90% effective at countering the disease in an interim