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Chemistry World October 23, 2014 Rebecca Trager |
US agency fast-tracks Ebola vaccine development The US Department of Health and Human Services is fast-tracking tests on an Ebola vaccine by providing $5.8 million under a one-year contract with the Maryland-based biotech company Profectus BioSciences |
Chemistry World August 5, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Vaccine raises hopes of an end to Ebola A Phase III trial for a candidate Ebola vaccine has shown extremely encouraging results in Guinea, demonstrating complete protection for all those who were vaccinated. |
Chemistry World January 29, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Ebola vaccine shown to be safe in humans GlaxoSmithKline's experimental Ebola vaccine is capable of triggering an immune response in humans, according to a new study. |
Chemistry World December 3, 2014 Maria Burke |
Ebola vaccine passes first safety hurdle The vaccine was developed collaboratively by scientists at the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and at Okairos, a biotechnology company acquired by GlaxoSmithKline. |
Chemistry World August 20, 2014 Maria Burke |
Doctors turn to experimental Ebola treatments The emergency use of an experimental medicine is highly unusual, but the WHO has declared the Ebola outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. |
Chemistry World September 1, 2014 Maria Burke |
Experimental Ebola drug 'impressive' in animal trials In the hunt for a treatment for Ebola, a new study has shown that monkeys given the experimental drug ZMapp all survived infection with the virus. |
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2014 Jill Wechsler |
Ebola Crisis Challenges Pharma R&D Companies gain support and pressure to deliver new treatments for spreading outbreak. |
The Motley Fool September 25, 2007 Brian Orelli |
Cold HIV Vaccine Gets Frozen Phase 2 clinical trials of Merck's HIV vaccine were frozen, leaving the door open for other drugmakers that have vaccines of their own in early trials. Investors, take note. |
Chemistry World September 26, 2007 Victoria Gill |
HIV Vaccines 'Will Not Work' Just days after US drug firm Merck revealed its leading HIV vaccine candidate had flopped in clinical trials, a leading immunologist has predicted that many other vaccines in the pipeline will also fail because their design is similarly flawed. |
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004 Kerry Capell |
Vaccinating The World's Poor GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals is betting it can combat Third World scourges -- and still make money. |
Chemistry World September 16, 2015 Patrick Walter |
A shot in the arm It's heartening news that an Ebola vaccine has delivered outstanding results and that a malaria one shows early promise. |
The Motley Fool December 30, 2008 Brian Orelli |
A Shot in the Arm for Novartis' Pipeline The company picks up the rights to a vaccine that fights a virus. |
Wired January 2003 Richard Martin |
Testing the First AIDS Vaccine Medical establishment, government, and Genentech be damned -- Don Francis has never stopped believing. Now he's about to finish testing the first human AIDS vaccine. |
Chemistry World August 4, 2008 Pete Mitchell |
Vaccine failures shake up HIV research Prospects for an HIV vaccine have receded with the July decision by the US government National Institutes of Health (NIH) to cancel trials of its main vaccine candidate. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2010 Walter Armstrong |
Vaccines: Progress in Preventing Bad Bugs Long on the sidelines of pharma R&D, vaccine development is moving to center stage as most of the big pharmas diversify, spreading their risk among the full gamut of revenue sources. |
Fast Company June 2015 |
Meet Ebola's Soft-Spoken, Plant-Loving Arch Nemesis A professor at Arizona State University, Arntzen is considered the godfather of a growing field of research sometimes called "pharming": engineering plants to produce specialized vaccines and other drugs. |
The Motley Fool May 31, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson |
Vical Gets a Helping Hand Japan's AnGes MG's Allovectin-7 vaccine is now a risk-free lottery ticket for Vical. If phase 3 trials show adequate efficacy, there's upside. If the trials fail, Vical really doesn't lose much of anything. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool January 11, 2005 Charly Travers |
The Future of Cancer Vaccines Biotech companies developing cancer vaccines have been in investors' doghouses for a long time. Can a vaccine help stave off forms of the disease? |
Pharmaceutical Executive July 10, 2014 Fitzpatrick & Mohan |
Vaccines: Fire in the Cold Chain It's only recently that vaccine producers experienced the commercial returns commensurate with vaccines: long record of positive public health performance. |
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2009 Joanna Breitstein |
Vaccines for All The world is suffering. But just over the horizon is a new access equation that could speed innovative vaccines to where they're needed most. |
BusinessWeek October 22, 2007 Catherine Arnst |
Roll Up Your Sleeve, Gramps A graying population may create a huge market for vaccines that buttress aging immune systems. |
Popular Mechanics September 2006 Ben Harder |
Seeking Immunity Pathogens like West Nile virus show no respect for borders. But a new class of vaccines may soon keep them in check. |
BusinessWeek July 25, 2005 Catherine Arnst |
O.K., Roll Up Your Sleeve New vaccines are arriving but the economics are still a challenge. |
Fast Company Sarah Kessler |
Why There Is No Available Ebola Vaccine Ebola has the unprofitable qualities of being both relatively rare and infecting a mostly poor population. No pharma company wanted to foot the bill for human trials and production. |
The Motley Fool December 4, 2006 Brian Lawler |
Success for Dynavax Solid results from the first of three phase III trials cause the biopharmaceutical Dynavax's shares to rise. |
Scientific American November 2008 Jessica Wapner |
Cancer Vaccine: Looking Beyond Tumor Size Proponents see hope in changing cancer vaccines' bad reputation |
Chemistry World September 3, 2009 Sarah Houlton |
New HIV vaccine hope A team of scientists in the US has discovered two new antibodies that could lead to an HIV vaccine. |
The Motley Fool December 19, 2005 Brian Gorman |
Developing Drug Markets Drug companies focusing on the developing world could see major payoffs. Asia, Africa, and Australia offer very significant opportunities for investors. |
The Motley Fool October 17, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson |
Vaccines Crucial for Crucell This Dutch pharmaceutical is a frustratingly difficult stock to value. Most projects are at early stages, and many of them have uncertain revenue streams -- from which Crucell will get only small cuts. |
Bio-IT World June 15, 2003 Malorye Branca |
A View to a Kill Genomics, bioinformatics, and novel laboratory techniques are converging to boost vaccine research against a new wave of emerging diseases, natural and man-made. Now, will in silico modeling ramp up sufficiently to further speed vaccine discovery? |
Pharmaceutical Executive July 3, 2007 Jill Wechsler |
Washington Report: Vaccines for Everyone New vaccines can be good business and a huge boon to public health. But the challenge is to establish prices that ensure global access, and to bring necessary medications to third-world countries. |
The Motley Fool September 24, 2009 Brian Orelli |
Drugmakers' HIV Treatments Live On Companies that make HIV drugs could lose billions of dollars in revenue if an effective vaccine is developed. All drug-company investors need to keep an eye on up-and-coming drugs from competitors that could take market share. |
BusinessWeek November 28, 2005 Kerry Capell |
High-Velocity Vaccines PowderMed says its DNA technology would let it react quickly to a flu pandemic. A DNA flu vaccine would have huge advantages over traditional ones. But first, the company must prove in upcoming large-scale clinical trials that its vaccine can protect people from flu generally. |
BusinessWeek October 24, 2005 John Carey |
New Vaccines For A Pandemic Using DNA, vast amounts of flu vaccine could be made quickly. But will the drugs work? |
HBS Working Knowledge March 1, 2004 Martha Lagace |
Injecting New Life into the Vaccine Industry Vaccines for preventable diseases save millions of lives every year, yet as an industry, the vaccine business suffers a host of ailments, the CEO of Merck & Co. contends. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2005 Anthony Tao |
The Avian Few: Is it Too Late for Pharma to Re-enter the Vaccine Fray? Small profit margins and high litigation risks drove most companies out of the vaccine business decades ago. As a possible pandemic looms, pharma re-enters the fray. Is it too late? |
Chemistry World February 9, 2007 Victoria Gill |
Africa's First Large-Scale HIV Vaccine Trial The first large-scale clinical trial of an HIV vaccine will involve around 3000 participants in five selected sites in South Africa. It will compare the effectiveness of the vaccine at reducing HIV infection compared to a placebo. |
Chemistry World February 2006 |
Editorial: Fighting Avian Flu Participants at a world avian flu conference in Beijing committed to increasing cooperation on global vaccine and anti-viral research and development. |
BusinessWeek November 29, 2004 Kerry Capell |
"A Vaccine Every Woman Should Take" Two drug companies are closing in on shots against HPV, the leading cause of cervical cancer. Despite the obvious benefits, the vaccines may not be an easy sell: There are social and moral hurdles to overcome. |
Wired September 2002 Amanda Griscom |
Take These Genes and Call Me in the Morning Gene vaccines may be relatively new, but they're the logical outgrowth of two familiar strands of medical science. |
Scientific American April 10, 2006 Christine Soares |
Turning Yellow Yellow fever shot confers long-lasting immunity, a trait that medical researchers hope to transfer to other kinds of vaccines. |
Chemistry World July 29, 2015 Maria Burke |
Malaria vaccine approval first marred by efficacy question mark After decades of research, a malaria vaccine has finally been given the green light by a regulatory agency. But with limited efficacy and questions over the vaccine's cost, its future remains unclear. |
Chemistry World October 9, 2013 Phillip Broadwith |
GSK to apply for malaria vaccine approval Preliminary results from the first ever Phase III clinical trial of a malaria vaccine show that it can reduce malaria infections in vaccinated children over 18 months. |
The Motley Fool August 20, 2007 Brian Orelli |
Contracts That Are for the Birds Baxter and GlaxoSmithKline get bird flu vaccine contracts from the U.K. These contracts aren't reasons by themselves to run out and buy the companies' stock, but expanding income sources are almost always a good sign. |
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Vaccine Helps Prevent HIV For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. |
Chemistry World February 7, 2008 Hepeng Jia |
Profile: Vaccine Trailblazer Yin Weidong is one of the leading lights of China's fast growing biotech industry and Sinovac the first Chinese biotech firm listed on the US stock exchange. |
The Motley Fool April 6, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Kill It! Double-Teaming Malaria Malaria vaccine might not make Glaxo and Crucell rich, but the life-saving and PR benefits would be welcome. |
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2006 Pasternak et al. |
Vaccines: Market on the Rebound The vaccine business was safely inoculated against higher profits. But innovative therapies and looser government controls may spark an outbreak. Are pharmaceuticals ready for this opportunity? |
BusinessWeek October 25, 2004 John Carey |
A Booster Shot For Vaccines New technology could speed the development of vaccines and keep the medicine chest stocked. |
BusinessWeek January 9, 2006 Carol Matlack |
Preventing The Pandemic France's Sanofi Pasteur is already signing contracts for an avian flu vaccine. |