Published: Apr 12, 2021
VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (BUSINESS WIRE) The AmerisourceBergen Corporation , an independent not-for-profit charitable giving organization focused on supporting health-related causes that enrich the global community, announced today a $700,000 donation to Boys & Girls Clubs of America to support COVID-19 vaccine education and awareness in an effort to remove barriers to vital healthcare access.
As trusted community leaders, Boys & Girls Clubs are providing solutions, breaking down barriers and increasing access to vaccines that will enable communities to not only recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, but thrive. The AmerisourceBergen Foundation and Boys & Girls Clubs of America will roll out flexible and responsive awareness and education campaigns across 28 Clubs in California, Florida, Pennsylvania and Texas. This collective effort will empower Boys & Girls Clubs across the country to provide critical advocacy, awareness and education work around COVID
Recently announced topline results from a Phase II study show SAGE-324, Sage Therapeutics’ investigational oral neuroactive steroid GABAA receptor positive allosteric modulator, significantly reduced tremor score in adult patients with essential tremor.
Published: Apr 12, 2021
TARRYTOWN, N.Y., April 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/
REGEN-COV rapidly protected household contacts from exposure to SARS-CoV-2 at home, with 72% protection against symptomatic infections in the first week, and 93% in subsequent weeks
Among individuals who developed symptomatic infections, REGEN-COV recipients cleared the virus faster and had much shorter symptom duration
Regeneron will share data with U.S. FDA and request EUA expansion to include COVID prevention for appropriate populations, using a 1,200 mg subcutaneous dose
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) today announced positive results from a Phase 3 trial (2069A) assessing the ability of REGEN-COV™ (casirivimab with imdevimab) to reduce the risk and burden of COVID-19 infection among household contacts of SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals. The trial, which was jointly run with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (
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FOSTER CITY, Calif. & PARIS (BUSINESS WIRE) Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIRM) and Vivet Therapeutics (“Vivet”) announced today an agreement whereby Mirum has the exclusive option to develop and subsequently commercialize Vivet’s two proprietary AAV gene therapy programs for progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC), subtypes 3 and 2. The two programs, VTX-803 and VTX-802, are currently being evaluated in preclinical studies by Vivet, a privately-held gene therapy biotechnology company.
Under the terms of the agreement, Vivet will continue to advance the preclinical studies for VTX-803 and VTX-802 for PFIC3 and PFIC2, respectively. Mirum has the exclusive option to license the programs after which Mirum would lead the clinical development and any future commercialization of the programs. Until that time, Mirum will provide funding to support the continued research and development costs associated with the two gene therapy programs.
Published: Mar 22, 2021
TOKYO (BUSINESS WIRE) Yokogawa Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6841) announces the launch of Yokogawa Bio Frontier Inc. to develop businesses related to the production and sales of innovative plant-derived biomass materials, as well as associated licensing and consulting activities. The new subsidiary will officially kick off business operations on March 22.
Yokogawa Bio Frontier will focus on developing and commercializing high value-added plant-based biomass materials, such as nanocellulose and lignin monomer, which can be used to substitute chemicals and materials currently derived from fossil resources, thereby enabling a sustainable carbon cycle. The company will apply Yokogawa’s long experience in industrial automation to develop highly efficient extraction and production processes and facilities, and will market biomass materials to a wide range of customers in the chemical, food & beverage, pharmaceutical, and other industries.