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...Novavax’s Stanley Erck will be replaced by John C Jacobs, most recently chief executive at Harmony Biosciences, this month; CureVac’s Franz-Werner Haas will be succeeded by Alexander Zehnder, a Sanofi veteran...
...Rivals AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Russia’s Sputnik V and new entrants such as Novavax make up the remainder of the market, which is forecast to double in value to $124bn next year....
...The AU will pay $6.75 a dose for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and $10 for Johnson & Johnson’s, a single-dose product....
...The aborted trials include Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson’s scrapped study in 2012 and Merck’s failed trial in 2017....
...While the UK has not delivered finished vaccines to the EU, it has previously supplied crucial raw materials needed for the pioneering BioNTech/Pfizer mRNA vaccine made in the bloc....
...“It is notoriously difficult for outsiders to find out exactly what’s inside a vaccine,” said Alexander Edwards, associate professor of biomedical technology at Reading university....
...After such strong reads from the first two releases (three if we count Russia’s Sputnik V), the disappointing AZN figures were perhaps bound to prompt downward pressure on the company’s shares....
...In August, Russia became the first country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine — named Sputnik V — for civilian use, but western experts cast doubt on its efficacy and safety....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on October 19 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Pfizer/BioNTech....
...Gamaleya Institute director Alexander Gintsburg said on Thursday that Russia had already vaccinated 150,000 people, which he claimed was the most of any country worldwide....
...Brunswick Group hired former Pfizer China government affairs vice-president Xi Qing as a partner in Asia....
...Although its parent company, Interpublic Group Cos Inc, installed female leadership at the Martin Agency, IPG’s board remained the same....
...Mr Alexander said he was sure the site, which will be home to a Marriott Hotel, would be an “exceptional product” and that a building’s beauty was “in the eye of the beholder”....
...This is the idea that historical events are largely driven by the skill, charisma and power of exceptional individuals such as Alexander the Great, Napoleon and, perhaps, Uber’s Travis Kalanick....
...“Apple is quite different from the rest of the tech companies — their claim to fame has always been their industrial design, so this is extremely important to them,” said Alexander Poltorak, chief executive...
...Erik Nordkamp, UK managing director for Pfizer, said even crisis-hit Greece had wider access to the latest treatments....
...(CPI) Number of the day 73% v 28%The proportion of remaining delegates that Sanders would need to win in order to secure the nomination, compared to what Clinton needs....
...From Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin to the modelling of DNA by Francis Crick and James Watson, Britain’s scientists and pharmaceutical companies have been at the forefront of the life sciences...
...The possibility of a Pfizer/AstraZeneca deal still has the politicians talking (the chief executives of both were hauled before the UK parliament this week)....
...For the Oscars, as of today they are committed to dressing Cumberbatch, Cuarón, Stevens, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Matthew McConaughey, Andrew Garfield and Alexander Skarsgard....
...“He’s here,” countered Alexander Cherenko, an engineer en route to Ukraine. “If Putin says he is here, I believe him.”...
...Hermès also worked with the Four Seasons George V hotel in Paris to create a hand-built Rolls-Royce Phantom, custom-made to the hotel’s specifications....
...Pfizer’s decision earlier this year to close its UK research facility was a wake-up call that reputation alone will not guarantee Britain’s advantages....
...beyondbrics India v China: a new race in biopharmaceuticals, beyondbrics...
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