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Basel/Allschwil, Switzerland, December 23, 2022

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Basilea announces regulatory approval of antifungal Cresemba® (isavuconazole) in Japan

Saint-Herblain (France), December 23, 2022 – Valneva SE (Nasdaq: VALN; Euronext Paris: VLA), a specialty vaccine company, today announces that it has completed rolling submission of the Biologics License Application (BLA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its single-shot chikungunya vaccine candidate, VLA1553. Valneva is seeking approval of its investigational chikungunya vaccine in persons aged 18 years and above.

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Valneva Completes BLA Submission to U.S. FDA for its Single-Shot Chikungunya Vaccine Candidate

Montrouge, France, December 23, 2022

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DBV Technologies Announces FDA Has Lifted Partial Clinical Hold on VITESSE Phase 3 Pivotal Trial  

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, December 23, 2022 – Bavarian Nordic A/S (OMX: BAVA) announced today a new agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DOD) Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (JPEO-CBRND), for the advanced development of MVA-BN® WEV, a prophylactic vaccine candidate against Western, Eastern and Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, which can cause a rare, but potentially deadly mosquito-borne illness in humans1. Currently, no approved vaccines for human use are available.

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Bavarian Nordic Enters Agreement Valued up to USD 83 Million with the U.S. Department of Defense to Further Advance the Development of Equine...

MAINZ, Germany, December 23, 2022 – BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX, “BioNTech”, "the Company") today announced the initiation of a first-in-human Phase 1 study with BNT165b1, the first candidate from the Company’s BNT165 program, to develop a multi-antigen malaria vaccine candidate. BioNTech will initially evaluate a set of mRNA-encoded antigens of the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum (P. falciparum) to help select the multi-antigen vaccine candidate to proceed to planned later-stage trials. This first clinical trial (NCT05581641) will evaluate the safety, tolerability and exploratory immunogenicity of the vaccine candidate BNT165b1. BNT165b1 expresses certain parts of the circumsporozoite protein (CSP).

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BioNTech Initiates Phase 1 Clinical Trial for Malaria Vaccine Program BNT165

OSLO, Norway, Dec. 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nykode Therapeutics ASA (OSE: NYKD), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery and development of novel immunotherapies, today announced that its Chief Executive Officer Michael Engsig will present at the 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Monday, January 9, 2023 at 1:30 p.m. PT / 10:30 p.m. CET.

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Nykode Therapeutics to Present at the 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference