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China’s National Medical Products Administration approves Benlysta (belimumab) for adult patients with active lupus nephritis

The Pharma Data

GlaxoSmithKline plc (LSE/NYSE: GSK) today announced that China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved Benlysta (belimumab) for the treatment of adult patients with active lupus nephritis (LN) who are receiving standard of care. About lupus. Benlysta China Indication.

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Enlisting Monoclonal Antibodies in the Fight Against COVID-19

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

Just one infusion of this combination antibody therapy lowered the amount of viral genetic material in the animals’ lungs by as much as 30 percent compared to the amount in untreated animals. Meanwhile, there’s been other impressive recent progress towards the development of monoclonal antibody therapies for COVID-19. In the U.S.

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CHMP positive opinion recommending approval of Benlysta for adult patients with active lupus nephritis

The Pharma Data

The CHMP’s positive opinion brings us one step closer to providing physicians and patients in Europe with the first treatment option specifically designed to work in lupus and lupus nephritis.”. Despite improvements in both diagnosis and treatment over the last few decades, LN remains an indicator of poor prognosis. [3],

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European Commission approves Benlysta for adult patients with active lupus nephritis

The Pharma Data

GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) today announced the European Commission has approved the expanded use of intravenous and subcutaneous BENLYSTA (belimumab) in combination with background immunosuppressive therapies for the treatment of adult patients with active lupus nephritis (LN) in Europe, in addition to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

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AIM ImmunoTech Announces Availability of the ME/CFS Clinical Trial of its Drug Ampligen for Enrollment to COVID-19 ‘Long Haulers’Institutional Review Board Authorizes Public Notification for Potential Enrollment of Subjects

The Pharma Data

Eligible patients enrolled in the trial receive treatment with AIM’s flagship pipeline drug Ampligen. It is approved in Argentina as the world’s first therapy for severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and is the only late-stage drug in the U.S. All study subjects will receive the same Ampligen treatments.

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Alzheimer’s disease community from our Head of Research and Development, Alfred Sandrock, M.D., Ph.D.

The Pharma Data

NOTE: ADUHELM TM (aducanumab-avwa)injection 100 mg/mL solutionis indicated for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Treatment with ADUHELM should be initiated in patients with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia stage of disease, the population in which treatment was initiated in clinical trials.

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Women in Stem with Andrea Pfeifer

Drug Target Review

Then I was approached to co-found AC Immune in 2003. Food and Drug Administration for our Alzheimer’s vaccine candidate, ACI-24.060. COVID-19 has shown the revolutionary impact of vaccines. Our investigational active immunisation therapies could potentially delay or perhaps even prevent the onset of clinical dementia symptoms.

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