U.S. drugmaker Moderna said on Tuesday Chief Commercial Officer Arpa Garay has stepped down more than a year after she took on the role.
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The experimental personalized mRNA cancer treatment is used in combination with blockbuster drug Keytruda for patients with a type of lung cancer.
The European Patent Office declared a contested mRNA patent owned by Moderna invalid on Tuesday, the office said, handing a win to BioNTech and its partner Pfizer in a patent dispute between the two coronavirus vaccine makers.
Several cancer vaccine candidates are flying through clinical trials with promising results. Unlike traditional vaccines that aim to prevent a disease from occurring, therapeutic cancer vaccines train the patient’s immune system, enabling T cells to patrol the body for cancer cells and destroy them.
Moderna should hit the lower end of its sales target for this year as it only needs to tap a small portion of the private market with its COVID vaccine to reach that goal, according to industry analysts.
Around 4 million Americans received the updated COVID-19 shots in September, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), even as some people have found it difficult to book vaccination appointments or find the vaccines at no cost.
Moderna on Wednesday said its combination vaccine to protect against both COVID-19 and influenza generated a strong immune response compared to individual shots for the viruses in an early-stage study.
The company supplied its COVID vaccines to the EU during the pandemic, but the contract for its Omicron-adjusted vaccines ended in August last year and was not renewed.
The approval for the shot from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency follows the European regulatory panel’s recommendation on Thursday.
During Wednesday’s annual R&D Day, Moderna said it is culling four programs from its pipeline, including two molecules that had been discontinued last year by AstraZeneca.
