AstraZeneca on Thursday beat expectations for first-quarter profit and revenue, as buoyant sales of cancer treatment Imfinzi and strong demand for its roster of drugs in emerging markets helped to offset dwindling COVID product sales.
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A U.S. appeals court handed Moderna Inc. a win on Tuesday, affirming a decision to cancel an Arbutus Biopharma Corp. patent related to the companies’ legal fight over Moderna’s blockbuster COVID-19 vaccines.
At the World Vaccine Congress in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Maryland-based Novavax presented data on its COVID-19 booster and COVID-influenza combination vaccine candidate. Novavax shares rose 12 percent Thursday following the presentation.
Arbutus Biopharma on Tuesday sued U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc. and its German partner BioNTech SE in a New Jersey district court, claiming their mRNA COVID-19 vaccines infringe five of Arbutus’ patents.
Codiak BioSciences Inc. said it has filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection in the latest blow to the struggling drug developer’s ambitions of making a COVID-19 vaccine.
Novavax Inc.’s shares plunged 28% in U.S. early trading on Wednesday, a day after the COVID-19 vaccine maker raised doubts about its ability to remain in business.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s silence about her dealings with drugmaker Pfizer leading to the EU’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine contract is hurting public trust and is a problem that will not go away, its ombudsman said.
The U.S. government has agreed to buy 1.5 million more doses of Novavax Inc. COVID-19 vaccine, the company said on Monday, adding that the modified agreement includes funds for development of an updated vaccine by fall this year.
CanSino Biologics CEO Yu Xuefeng said on Friday he was confident his company’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine using messenger RNA (mRNA) technology was as good as shots from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech.
J&J’s large pharmaceuticals business is its major profit engine and the company is betting on that and its devices unit as the healthcare conglomerate prepares to spin off its consumer health business by the end of this year.
