Abstract The vast majority of vaccines are prophylactic in nature. As a result, the demonstration of their efficacy paradoxically requires the infectious disease to occur among non-diseased study participants randomized between investigational vaccine and appropriate control groups. The statistics of vaccine efficacy (VE) calculation are nearly entirely and solely based on the number of observed…

Thanks to promising candidates such as efgartigimod, the Fc receptor (FcRn) inhibitor market is poised to reshape the autoimmune disease treatment landscape. Sales projections for the market top $10 billion, as Driehaus Capital Management estimated in 2020. The addressable U.S. patient base spans more than 228,500 individuals across various conditions including myasthenia gravis, warm autoimmune…