Text size Data from BioNTech and Pfizer were particularly promising. Jeenah Moon / Getty Images After a hiatus from a late summer break, the news of a Covid-19 vaccine is heating up again as a handful of leading programs are rapidly moving to a decisive phase. Reports from several companies …
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Shares of CureVac NV rose Thursday after the German biotech company said it was in advanced talks to deliver at least 225 million doses of a potential Covid-19 vaccine to EU member states. CureVac said talks with the EC, the executive arm of the European Union, include an option to …
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Johnson & Johnson plans to launch in late September what may be the largest clinical trial to date against a coronavirus vaccine, enrolling up to 60,000 people worldwide to test whether the experimental shot safely protects against Covid-19. The targeted enrollment, reported on a government database and confirmed by the …
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Text size The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday rejected Gilead Science’s application for a will-be blockbuster arthritis medicine, blind investors. One analyst called the development a ‘near-worst-case scenario’ and a ‘shock’. Dreamstime The Food and Drug Administration’s decision to deny Gilead Science’s application for a wild medicine for blockbuster …
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Text size Sanofi is limiting its focus on drug development, stopping its diabetes and cardiovascular research. Joel Saget / AFP via Getty Images French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi is digging into the cash it raised earlier this year with the sale of its $ 11.7 billion stake in Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, the …
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