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FDA approves first medication to reduce allergic reactions

Drug Discovery World

Xolair was originally approved in 2003 for the treatment of moderate to severe persistent allergic asthma. Omalizumab clinical trial The FDA approval is based on data from a planned interim analysis of a Phase III clinical trial sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of NIH.

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‘Proactive’ vaccine can protect against unknown future coronaviruses

Drug Discovery World

For example, the new vaccine does not include the SARS-CoV-1 coronavirus, which caused the 2003 SARS outbreak, yet it still induces an immune response to that virus. The vaccine should enter Phase I clinical trials in early 2025, but its complex nature makes it challenging to manufacture which could limit large-scale production.

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Decentralised identities: Blockchain based informed consent

Drug Discovery World

Industry experts explain how blockchain can fundamentally enhance clinical trials. Obtaining consent from patients or healthy volunteers is a fundamental requirement for enrolling participants on to clinical trials. Along the study, patients are usually reconsented multiple times following a change in the trial protocol, eg.

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Decentralised identities: Blockchain based informed consent

Drug Discovery World

Industry experts explain how blockchain can fundamentally enhance clinical trials. Obtaining consent from patients or healthy volunteers is a fundamental requirement for enrolling participants on to clinical trials. Along the study, patients are usually reconsented multiple times following a change in the trial protocol, eg.

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A personal view on antibody drug development

Drug Discovery World

Clinical trial results of those combinations and bispecifics were on numerous occasions underwhelming and didn’t stand up to their expected efficacy – not even in an additive way. We may have to explore disease complexity and signaling cascades more critically before entering costly and long clinical trial.

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Preliminary Findings from a Phase 2a Trial of Investigational COVID-19 Therapeutic Molnupiravir

The Pharma Data

The companies today reported findings on one secondary objective from the Phase 2a study, showing a reduction in time (days) to negativity of infectious virus isolation in nasopharyngeal swabs from participants with symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, as determined by isolation in Vero cell line culture. “The

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CAR-NK cells: promising for cancer therapy

Drug Target Review

Up until 2023 around 600 NK cell clinical trials have been reported and some 200 are clinically active and still recruiting patients. The vast majority (65/74; 88%) of those trials involved NK cells without CARs; while only 12 percent were CAR-NK studies. CAR-NK cell trials only commenced in 2017 and most are still recruiting patients.

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