Pfizer/BioNTech is emerging as the EU’s partner of choice for COVID-19 vaccines, but others could also benefit.

The Madrid-based group's Aplidin is set to go back yet again to European regulators but the sea squirt-derived drug seems to be showing more potential in COVID-19 than in multiple myeloma.

The number of novel products launched in their first markets in 2020 hit record heights in spite of – and in part buoyed by – the pandemic, with an exceptional year for infectious diseases therapeutics and vaccines.

Caught in a ‘vaccine nationalism’ crossfire a year ago, CureVac is now well placed to become a commercial entity – just as long as its mRNA platform can deliver.

GlaxoSmithKline's market value has slipped in the past three years and the number of failures in the clinic have grown. The major's leadership will be casting nervous glances towards a major shareholder that has a reputation for aggressive restructuring calls.   

Switzerland’s GeNeuro will study whether its monoclonal antibody temelimab can prevent long-COVID, after data for the first time linked activation of human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) to the condition and its associated neurological symptoms.

Potentially fatal blood clots seen in AZ and J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine could be common to all adenovirus vector vaccines – but Russia and China developers are dismissing a possible link.

Janssen's net drug prices declined for the fourth year in a row in 2020, while list prices increased 3.8%, according to the company's drug pricing report.

While preclinical data show boosters to MRNA-1273 can reduce the threat of viral variants, the biotech also told investors it sees no link between its vaccine and thrombotic episodes.