TechnoPharma

In June 2020, the Medsintez plant entered an agreement to join the Bioorganika Consortium of the Center for the National Technological Initiative of the Federal State Budgetary Institution ‘Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry named after Academicians M...

Biocomposite feed additive for farm animals and poultry, created as part of the REC “Innovative Solutions in the Agro-Industrial Complex”, neutralizes mycotoxins. Thanks to the Belgorod State University scientists’ innovation, the problem of mycotoxins contaminated, poor-quality feed will be solved...

A unique centre specializing in innovative “genomic research and genetic technologies” is to open doors at Novosibirsk State University (NSU). The Institute of genetic technologies (IGT), cofounded by...

Researchers of Tomsk Polytechnic University proposed a method for improving implants for organ regeneration. New technology can expand the potential of tissue engineering. The results were published in the Surface & Coatings Technology. One of the areas of modern biomedicine is the improvement of materials to produce scaffolds. These scaffolds are used as the basis to grow new tissues in regenerative medicine or as a material for targeted drug delivery. The scaffolds with necessary cells or medicines...

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced that the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Keytruda, merck's anti-PD-1 therapy, as monotherapy for the treatment...

The Russian Direct Investment fund (RDIF) is considering the possibility of investing in several more Favipiravir-based drugs, chief executive officer Kirill Dmitriev said on June 25. Two more companies...

COVID-19 vaccine candidate proceeds to animal testing. This is one of the two currently ongoing projects related to the coronavirus, the other being an antibody test system. “They are intertwined. To properly evaluate the effect of the vaccine, we have to find out whether the tested animals form antibodies to the coronavirus. Therefore, such a test system would be necessary to create a vaccine. Furthermore, the test system is also necessary for healthcare. Right now, we are already using at the University Clinic to research our employees’ and population immunity...

China National Biotec group (cnbg) has won approval to run a large-scale “Phase 3” clinical trial of its novel coronavirus vaccine candidate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the company said on June 23...

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration today launched Project Patient Voice, an initiative of the fda's oncology center of excellence (OCE). Through a new website, project patient voice creates a consistent...

“The clinical trials of a vaccine against COVID-19 continue at the Sechenov University of the Russian Ministry of Health. On June 23, 2020, the second group of 20 volunteers received an injection of the sample at the Practical Research Center for Interventional Cardiovasology which is part of the University Clinical Center,” the statement said of the Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. The first stage of clinical trials was launched at the Sechenov University on June 18, when the first eighteen volunteers were vaccinated...

The European medicines regulatory network has issued recommendations on impurities in medicines following the conclusion of an exercise to draw on lessons learnt from the presence of nitrosamines in a class of blood pressure medicines known as sartans. The recommendations aim to clarify the roles and responsibilities of companies involved in the manufacture of medicines and to amend guidance on controlling impurities and good manufacturing practice. The recommendations also cover the management of...

India plans to tighten the regulatory noose around pharmaceuticals imports from China through stricter scrutiny of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), key starting materials (KSMs) for medicines and medical equipments. India imports more than 53 critical pharma APIs, including those used in tuberculosis medicines, steroids and vitamins from China. It also imports raw material for medical devices, pharma packaging material like plastic, polymers and small components for medical equipments and devices from China...