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AstraZeneca plc is an Anglo–Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company.
In 2013, it moved its headquarters to Cambridge, United Kingdom, and concentrated its R&D in three sites: Cambridge, Gaithersburg, Maryland (location of MedImmune) for work on biopharmaceuticals, and Mölndal (near Gothenburg) in Sweden, for research on traditional chemical drugs. In 2015, it was the eighth-largest drug company in the world based on sales revenue.
AstraZeneca has a portfolio of products for major disease areas including cancer, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, infection, neuroscience, respiratory and inflammation. The company was founded in 1999 through the merger of the Swedish Astra AB and the English Zeneca Group (itself formed by the demerger of the pharmaceutical operations of Imperial Chemical Industries in 1993). It has made numerous corporate acquisitions, including Cambridge Antibody Technology (in 2006), MedImmune (in 2007), Spirogen (in 2013) and Definiens (by MedImmune in 2014).
The recommendation will allow more data to be collected about the combination treatment while allowing patients with high-grade epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal cancer to access the medication.
AstraZeneca’s Calquence (acalabrutinib), a chemotherapy-free monotherapy, will be offered to patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.
Several countries have temporarily stopped the use of the vaccine while reports of blood clots are investigated by the EMA’s pharmacovigilance committee and other authorities.
In a Phase III trial, tezepelumab was shown to meaningfully reduce annualised asthma exacerbation rates in a range of patients with severe, uncontrolled asthma.
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The OlympiA trial will conduct its primary analysis early, after the Independent Data Monitoring Committee found it met its primary endpoint in BRCA mutated early breast cancer patients.
The Emergency Use Listing will allow doses of the COVID-19 vaccines to be distributed through COVAX, the WHO’s vaccine allocation facility.
The UK has conditionally approved Enhertu® (trastuzumab deruxtecan) as a monotherapy for the treatment of unresectable or metastatic HER2 positive breast cancer based on Phase II trial results.
Collaborators on Grand Challenge 3 will utilise their combined expertise to transform the oligonucleotide supply chain.
The ACTIV-3 sub-study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of the AZD7442 synthetic antibody combination in at least 150 participants with mild-to-moderate COVID-19.
The UK Government has given £7 million of funding for a clinical trial which will investigate whether patients can be given different COVID-19 vaccines for each dose.
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A preliminary analysis suggests the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca was 74 percent effective after the first dose and 82 percent effective with a 12-week inter-dose interval.
After manufacturing delays, AstraZeneca will now provide the EU with the 40 million COVID-19 vaccine doses it originally agreed to supply.
In vitro neutralisation assays show REGEN-COV and AZD7442 are effective against the new SARS-CoV-2 variants, while other antibody therapies, including Eli Lilly’s bamlanivimab, were not.
Reports have said five people have been killed in a fire at the Serum Institute of India, where the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is being made.
