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Cancer vaccines: providing the edge in oncology

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In this article, Ben Hargreaves looks into the promise of cancer vaccines and how this treatment modality may offer advantages over existing immunotherapies in the oncology sector. The oncology segment has been recognised as one of the most productive areas for pharmaceutical companies to focus their R&D investment.

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The Pandemic Treaty and the opportunity to end ‘vaccine apartheid’

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Ben Hargreaves discovers why some have referred to the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments as a form of apartheid. The world was caught unprepared for the global pandemic that struck in 2020. Vaccine access for a price. There are now efforts to ensure that the same is not allowed to happen again.

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COVID-19 has propelled the regulatory industry years ahead

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The development of COVID-19 vaccines required levels of cooperation and pioneering science comparable to the Apollo space programme. Within 12 months of the outbreak, vaccines were being deployed to prevent severe infections, hospitalisation, and death. billion people have been fully vaccinated. COVID-19 vaccine tracker.

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Pfizer says COVID-19 jab could rake in $26bn this year

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Pfizer expects revenues from its BioNTech-partnered COVID-19 vaccine to reach an eye-watering $26 billion this year, catapulting it to the top of the world’s biggest-selling medicines. . The vaccine made $3.5 The vaccine made $3.5 Spending and profit from the vaccine are split equally between Pfizer and BioNTech.

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Governments and pharma relationships and implications for antimicrobial resistance

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Since 2020, government agencies have provided funding for expensive late-stage vaccine development and the expansion of manufacturing capacity, as well as other key pharmaceutical activities. The shift from private to public funding enabled more rapid development of Covid-19 drugs and vaccines.

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Nine for 2021: The COVID-19 legacy

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One bright spot in an otherwise dreadful year: the pharmaceutical industry has discovered it can do things it never dreamed possible. Anyone who proposed that a novel, deadly virus would spread, with a vaccine developed demonstrating 95% efficacy, and approved for patients in less than a year would have been scoffed at.

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AI continues to gain momentum in the biopharmaceutical industry in 2023

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AI has been voted as the most disruptive emerging technology every year since 2020, according to the survey tracker. The report also suggested that Big Data was thought to be the most important partner to AI, in terms of introducing technology-related changes in the pharmaceutical sector (Figure 2).