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Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE announced that the companies have agreed to a letter of intent regarding the co-development and distribution (excluding China) of a potential mRNA-based coronavirus vaccine aimed at preventing COVID-19 infection. The companies have executed a Material Transfer and Collaboration Agreement to enable the parties to immediately start working together. The collaboration aims to accelerate development of BioNTech’s potential first-in-class COVID-19 mRNA v

The CPhI Pharma portfolio confirms new exhibition dates for CPhI Japan, CPhI South East Asia and CPhI North America. Following a detailed review of attendee requirements and event feasibility, the organizers have moved quickly to secure new dates for three editions of the CPhI pharma series. CPhI South East Asia will now take place July 1-3, 2020 at the Challenger 2, IMPACT centre in Bangkok, Thailand, with CPhI Japan being held September 30th until October 2nd, 2020 at the Intex Os

ADVANZ PHARMA Corp. Limited , a global pharmaceutical company focused on serving the needs of patients and healthcare providers around the world with enhanced access to high quality, niche-established medicines, today announced that through its wholly-owned subsidiary, the Company has entered into an arrangement agreement dated March 15, 2020, (the "Arrangement Agreement") to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of specialty pharmaceutical company Correvio Pharma Corp. (

Since December 2019, the world is facing the new coronavirus challenge, and measures have been taken against the outbreak. The continuously increasing number of prevalence of coronavirus infected patients and the death cases clearly show, that there is no therapy against coronaviruses yet. Considering all available data on the effect of deuterium depletion on cell function and metabolism, and over 20 years’ experience with Vetera-DDW-25 deuterium-depleted veterinary medicinal anti-cance

Everads Therapy, an early-stage life sciences company developing the next generation of retinal treatment delivery technologies, today announced that it has signed an option agreement with a large global pharmaceutical company. This is Everads' first commercial agreement, and its signing supports the potential of its technology to overcome certain risks and side effects associated with current retinal disease treatment options. Established in 2017 within the RAD Biomed incubator, Everads

Phio Pharmaceuticals Corp., a biotechnology company developing the next generation of immuno-oncology therapeutics based on its proprietary self-delivering RNAi  therapeutic platform, today announced that it has reached a new agreement with Medigene AG  in relation to Phio Pharmaceuticals' previously announced research collaboration in August 2019 with the Helmholtz Zentrum München to design and develop novel candidates for the use of INTASYL™ compounds in adoptive ce

The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation for JNJ-61186372 (JNJ-6372) for the treatment of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) Exon 20 insertion mutations, whose disease has progressed on or after platinum-based chemotherapy. JNJ-6372 is an EGFR-mesenchymal epithelial transition factor (MET) bispe

WindMIL Therapeutics, a clinical-stage company developing marrow-infiltrating lymphocytes (MILs™) for cancer immunotherapy, and Cognate BioServices, Inc., a leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) in the global cellular therapies industry, today announced they have entered an agreement to expand WindMIL’s clinical manufacturing capacity. “Our clinical program with MILs, including our ongoing Phase 2a trial in non-small-cell lung cancer (N

Nanoform, an innovative nanoparticle medicine enabling company, and Orion Corporation, a Finnish pharmaceutical company, today announced a collaboration to apply Nanoform's award-winning CESS® technology to new chemical entities. Building on an existing relationship, this collaboration will utilize Nanoform's proprietary CESS® technology to improve the bioavailability and solubility of selected early-development compounds, increasing the likelihood of drugs entering clinical d

Innovation Pharmaceuticals, a clinical stage pharmaceutical company, continues to receive inquiries regarding the potential of Brilacidin, the Company’s novel defensin mimetic compound, to treat COVID-19, more generically called “coronavirus,” given the urgent worldwide need to discover treatments and vaccines for the deadly epidemic. According to Worldometer.info as of Friday morning, more than 100,000 cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed worldwide with over 3,400 deaths a