Beyfortus, which received FDA Fast Track for this designation, is a monoclonal antibody with activity against RSV.
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The WHO’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, declared the end of the emergency status for the disease based on the recommendation of the organization’s emergency committee, which met on Wednesday.
“We plan to continue investing in our transformation with a focus on building commercial capabilities in oncology and working towards registrational trials,” said CEO and Co-Founder Ugur Sahin.
This effort is the first result of the research collaboration established in 2018 between the University of Pennsylvania and BioNTech aimed at developing novel mRNA vaccine candidates for the prevention and treatment of various infectious diseases.
The decision, which could be announced as early as Wednesday comes in response to growing pressure from senior Biden officials, who privately urged WHO leaders to change the name.
For years digital health platforms have been integral in helping navigate viral outbreaks such as HIV, COVID-19, and monkeypox. Ramin Bastani, CEO of Healthvana – a platform that delivers test results and records (the company just surpassed 50 million records delivered) to get patients on the right track to receive treatment – talks about how such digital health solutions are improving the response to disease outbreaks.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. health official celebrated and vilified as the face of the country’s COVID-19 pandemic response, used his final White House briefing on Tuesday to denounce division and promote vaccines.
RSV, influenza, COVID-19 and monkeypox have dominated vaccine discussions this year, but vaccines are also being developed for a host of other infectious diseases.
Since the pandemic emerged, more top drugmakers have made progress in improving access to medicines in the developing world, but those gains are largely limited to middle-income countries leaving the poorest behind, an analysis has found.
The European Commission has approved Sanofi and AstraZeneca’s Beyfortus for the prevention of a common and highly contagious type of respiratory infection in infants.
