Trends & Analysis

Valneva has begun a rolling submission for initial approval of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate, VLA2001, with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the UK. VLA2001 is a whole virus, inactivated, adjuvanted vaccine candidate and is the only vaccine candidate of this type currently in clinical trials in Europe.  VLA2001 is currently being […]

Public Policy Projects (PPP) has launched a new report called ‘The Operationalisation of Precision Medicine.’ The report, which is now available to download, has been created in partnership with AstraZeneca. Precision medicine is a development in medical history that has the potential to ensure better outcomes for patients. The UK is ahead of many countries […]

The Covid-19 pandemic has given businesses opportunity to implement technology-fuelled changes to the way they operate. AI and big data/analytics have been identified by healthcare industry professionals as the top technologies that will transform pharmaceutical drug discovery and development processes, as well as marketing and sales, according to a survey by GlobalData, a data and […]

GlobalData’s report, ‘Thematic Research: Microbiome-Targeted Therapeutics in Immunology’, reveals that 23 microbiome-targeting therapeutics are currently being developed in the US and the 5EU (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK) for gastrointestinal (GI), dermatological, and respiratory conditions. Each of these therapies aims to address these diseases by manipulating the microbiome. Microbiome is a space with high potential, […]

Steve Gardner, CEO PrecisionLife, examines the lack of return on investment for pharmaceutical R&D and the huge pockets of unmet medical need in common chronic disorders. Over the last decade many pharma companies such as GSK, Abbvie and AZ have analysed the success factors for their drug discovery and development processes. They have recognised that […]

A survey of 75 pharmaceutical, life sciences and medtech businesses indicates R&D spending is being maintained and is set to rise in 2021, despite Brexit and the impact of Covid-19. The survey included SMEs in these sectors in the UK and was conducted by accountancy group MHA. This is positive news for the recently released […]

Chinese biopharma companies are eyeing strategic collaborations with Western counterparts to leverage their networks and commercial capabilities to promote indigenously developed drugs in China, says GlobalData, a data and analytics company. China-based Luye Pharma Group’s holding subsidiary Boan Biotech signed an agreement with AstraZeneca China in May 2021 regarding the promotion rights to the anticancer […]

Since Covid-19 was officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), the peak in total number of clinical trials for the virus was seen in the month of April 2020. There has since been a steady decrease in new clinical trial investigations, except for the months of December 2020 and March 2021. As […]

By Naheed Kurji, Co-founder and Executive of the Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAIH), CEO of Cyclica; and Andreas Windemuth, Ph.D, Chief Science Officer of Cyclica Over the past decade, a new industry has arisen that seeks to apply artificial intelligence (AI), or more aptly machine learning (ML) technologies, to healthcare. This surge was […]

Eli Lilly’s tirzepatide, a once-weekly dual glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist (GLP-1RA), recently demonstrated that it was able to not only reduce HbA1c levels in type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients, but also confer weight loss when compared to insulin glargine in the SURPASS-4 trial. Tirzepatide has the potential to achieve […]