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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. Ampligen is AIM’s TLR3 agonist immune-system modulator. development pipeline for ME/CFS.

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

The Pharma Data

The approval extends the current indication in China as add-on therapy in adults and children aged five years and older with active systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The BLISS-LN phase III trial is the largest and longest trial conducted in active LN, involving 448 adult patients. About the BLISS-LN trial. About lupus.

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

The Pharma Data

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. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification of clinical benefit in confirmatory trial(s). Biogen Inc.

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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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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. We are the only company in the world including this population in any Alzheimer’s drug trial, and we are very proud of this! COVID-19 has shown the revolutionary impact of vaccines.

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U.S. FDA ACCEPTS FOR PRIORITY REVIEW

The Pharma Data

FDA ACCEPTS FOR PRIORITY REVIEW PFIZER’S APPLICATION FOR TICOVAC (TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE). If approved, the vaccine may help reduce the risk of TBE for people traveling to endemic areas, potentially including military personnel serving in these locations. 1,2 If approved, TicoVac would be the first vaccine in the U.S.

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