All articles by Allie Nawrat

1. Coronavirus company news summary – Kevzara fails to meet endpoints in Phase III trial – CureVac teams up with Tesla for mobile vaccine manufacturing

   3 July 2020  Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals have reported that a Phase III clinical trial of rheumatoid arthritis drug Kevzara…
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   3 Jul
2. Ona’s €30m Series A round: directly targeting metastasis in cancer

   Barcelona-based Ona Therapeutics has closed a €30m Series A financing round. This comes just over a year after securing a…
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   2 Jul
3. EUSA Pharma to launch Phase III study of IL-6 drug against Covid-19

   The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved EUSA Pharma’s Phase III trial protocol to study siltuximab plus standard…
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   2 Jul
4. Road to RECOVERY: A deep dive into the world’s largest Covid-19 drug trial

   “Around 9 or 10 March, it become obvious that [the novel] coronavirus was going to be a major challenge worldwide….
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   2 Jul
5. Coronavirus company news summary – Pfizer-BioNTech announce positive data for Covid-19 vaccine – University of Oxford Covid-19 vaccine said to have right immune response

   2 July 2020  Pfizer and BioNTech have reported positive preliminary results from the ongoing Phase I/II clinical trial of BNT162b1,…
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   2 Jul
6. US buys up the vast majority of global stocks of Gilead’s remdesivir

   The US Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) signed a deal with Gilead Sciences to secure 500,000 treatment courses…
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   1 Jul
7. Coronavirus company news summary – MHRA re-starts hydroxychloroquine trial – Japan launches first Covid-19 vaccine trial

   1 July 2020  The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has granted authorisation for researchers to resume enrolment…
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   1 Jul
8. Charting the ups and downs of the World Health Organization

   The World Health Organization (WHO) has been thrust into the spotlight over the last few months due to the Covid-19…
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   1 Jul
9. AstraZeneca and Veeva: reducing disruption from the Covid-19 pandemic

   Anglo-Swedish pharma giant AstraZeneca has just gone live with its Veeva Vault Clinical Suite project. This will unify clinical trial…
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   1 Jul
10. ViiV funds projects to research Covid-19 risk in and impact on HIV patients

    ViiV Healthcare has announced 109 projects from 26 countries that have received funding from its £3m Global HIV and Covid-19…
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    30 Jun