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STAT+: Drug development was once a marathon. New tools and timelines are turning it into a sprint

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Drug development is more of a sprint than a marathon these days, thanks to more and better ways to target underlying biology and a more nuanced interpretation of precision medicine, three biotech leaders said at the STAT Breakthrough Summit East in New York Thursday. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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STAT+: Cancer vaccines gain momentum, after years of disappointing results

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SAN DIEGO — Cancer vaccines have traveled a potholed road over the last decade. The promise has long been an affordable, personalized cancer vaccine that could train the immune system to recognize proteins from cancer cells and, subsequently, destroy the tumor.

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‘Last roll of the dice’ for a near-term HIV vaccine fails

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A study billed as the last chance to develop an HIV vaccine this decade has been shut down, investigators announced Wednesday at a conference in Harare, Zimbabwe. The trial, known as PrEPVacc, was testing two different vaccine regimens on about 1,500 volunteers in East and Southern Africa.   Read the rest…

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Does Moderna’s RSV vaccine lose efficacy faster than others?

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Also, Moderna’s RSV vaccine efficacy seems lackluster compared to competitors, and the Bernie Sanders drug pricing song-and-dance did not seem to faze pharma CEOs.   Sign up  to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Give it a listen. Read the rest…

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Replicate’s srRNA rabies vaccine effective in Phase 1

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We see a new startup emerge that aims to compete with Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and learn of Phase 1 results for Replicate’s srRNA rabies vaccine. Today, we discuss how Biogen’s missed the mark with Leqembi, but how it’s also not exactly a surprise. Read the rest…

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STAT+: After missing vaccine glory in pandemic, GSK looks to dominate other diseases

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BOSTON — GSK has been developing vaccines under one corporate guise or another for 140 years, ever since a rural Pennsylvania doctor started pumping smallpox shots out of a converted chicken house in 1882, but the company may be most known today for the vaccine it didn’t build.

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A rare Marburg outbreak sparks a race against time to test vaccines and drugs

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A Marburg fever outbreak in Equatorial Guinea is galvanizing efforts to test drugs and vaccines for a virus that currently has none. But every day counts, warned experts who gathered virtually on Tuesday to try to chart a course for the work.

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