AstraZeneca resumes AZD1222 Covid-19 vaccine trials after brief pause
AstraZeneca said that clinical trials for the AZD1222 Covid-19 vaccine candidate, have resumed in various parts of the world after regulators across the US, UK, Brazil, Japan, and South Africa confirmed that it was safe to continue them. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the restart of AZD1222 clinical trials in the […]
AstraZeneca said that AZD7442, which is being developed for the prevention and treatment of Covid-19, will move into two phase 3 clinical trials. AZD7442 is a combination of a couple of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) extracted from convalescent patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. It will be assessed in more than 6,000 participants at sites in and outside […]
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AstraZeneca has been granted breakthrough therapy designation (BTD) for Farxiga (dapagliflozin) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), irrespective of type 2 diabetes (T2D). According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), chronic kidney disease is a serious, progressive condition defined […]
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Pharma giant AstraZeneca has signed a deal to acquire a preclinical oral PCSK9 inhibitor asset from Dogma Therapeutics, a portfolio company of Viva Biotech. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. AstraZeneca intends to take the PCSK9 inhibitor program into clinical trials in 2021 for dyslipidemia and also familial hypercholesterolemia. People having dyslipidemia, […]
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AstraZeneca said that it has finalized a deal with the European Commission (EC) for the delivery of up to 400 million doses of the AZD1222 Covid-19 vaccine candidate (formerly ChAdOx1 nCoV-19). The deal is said to consolidate on the existing agreement with Europe’s Inclusive Vaccines Alliance led by Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Italy. It […]
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AstraZeneca has signed a deal potentially worth up to $6 billion with Daiichi Sankyo for the global development and commercialization for the latter’s DS-1062, a trophoblast cell-surface antigen 2 (TROP2)-directed antibody drug conjugate (ADC), which is being developed for the treatment of multiple tumor types. Daiichi Sankyo is developing the antibody drug conjugate for multiple tumors […]
Continue reading …COV001 clinical trial results : Oxford vaccine ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 triggers strong immune response
July 20, 2020 No Comment
COV001 clinical trial results : AstraZeneca and Oxford University said that interim results from the phase 1/2 COV001 clinical trial showed the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) to be well tolerated besides generating strong responses in all evaluated participants against the COVID-19 causing SARS-CoV-2 virus. The early-stage COVID-19 vaccine trial is being led by Oxford University, […]
Continue reading …Farxiga : AstraZeneca gets FDA fast track status for heart failure after MI
July 20, 2020 No Comment
AstraZeneca has secured fast track designation for Farxiga (dapagliflozin) in the US for its use in reducing the risk of hospitalization for heart failure (hHF) or cardiovascular (CV) death in adults after an acute myocardial infarction (MI) or heart attack. The fast track designation for the oral once-daily sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor is based on […]
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Russian pharma company R-Pharm has reportedly signed an agreement with AstraZeneca for manufacturing the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine being developed by the latter in collaboration with UK-based Oxford University. The entire world is pinning hopes on the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine candidate, which reportedly seems to be the most probable to become the first vaccine against the […]
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Ascentage Pharma has entered into a clinical collaboration with Acerta Pharma, the hematology research and development center of excellence of AstraZeneca to assess the combination of Bcl-2 and Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) inhibitors in a type of lymphoma. As per the collaboration terms, Ascentage Pharma will sponsor a clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and […]
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