GlaxoSmithKline will be closing its drug manufacturing operations in Bangladesh by the end of this year and will remain only with its healthcare business that produces Sensodyne, Horlicks and Glaxose-D.
23andMe declared an investment of $300 million on Wednesday, made by GlaxoSmithKline to attain special access to their DNA database.
Nucala (mepolizumab) was first approved as the first anti-IL5 treatment for adults and adolescents with severe asthma accompanied by eosinophilic phenotype in the United States during November 2015. Later it was approved to treat eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA).
As a result of the high demand for GlaxoSmithKline's new shingles vaccine, Shingrix, two U.S. senators have urged the pharma giant to boost inventory levels on facing a shortage in the supplies even after the company established their "fair and equitable" process to ship Shingrix doses.
Order limits have been introduced by GSK owing to high demand for the product, as per a note on the CDC’s website. In the meantime, shipping delays are being experienced by providers and according to the CDC, the delays are likely to remain throughout the year.
Updated clinical data on its T-cell therapies has been presented by Adaptimmune. The GlaxoSmithKline-partnered NY-ESO SPEAR T-cells have been linked by the latest readouts to a 50% partial response rate in heavily pretreated cancer patients and have led to the positioning of Adaptimmune for dialing up of dosing of two wholly owned assets.
Merck generated more than $1.5 billion in first-quarter vaccine sales. (Merck)
The only shingles vaccine to achieve ≥90% efficacy across all age groups studied
GSK’s Cervarix and Merck’s previous version of Gardasil took about 10 years to reach the Chinese market. (Merck)
Developing specialty vaccines for emerging and overlooked infectious diseases is a challenging and rewarding enterprise with specific opportunities and problems. Large companies have not historically prioritized this area and instead have focused on the development and commercialization of routine vaccines and vaccines for diseases with more significant global markets.
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