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Immunotherapy is here to stay

Drug Discovery World

These include two antibodies for modulating immune responses in cancer and autoimmunity, which are being advanced through pharmaceutical partnerships with Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline. Then in 2015, nivolumab and ipilimumab became the first IO-IO combination to receive regulatory approval for melanoma.

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AI in gene delivery vector discovery and design

Drug Target Review

Genome engineering and gene therapies that manipulate DNA sequences in cells have driven a biotechnological revolution over the past decade. 9 In addition, host immune responses further add to the complexity of developing cell-specific AAV capsids for clinical applications.

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The power of combinations in blood cancers

Drug Target Review

2 It is this complexity that necessitates powerful, targeted combination therapies. 4, 5 More recently, new combination regimens have emerged that incorporate targeted therapies to treat a variety of blood cancers, including multiple myeloma (MM), chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) and acute myelogenous leukaemia (AML).

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Lead Pharma Teams with Roche on Oral Small Molecules for Immune-Mediated Diseases

The Pharma Data

Located in Oss, the Netherlands, Lead Pharma is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel small-molecule therapies for patients suffering from autoimmune diseases (a subset of immune-mediated diseases) and cancer. . This includes therapies against the nuclear receptor ROR?t,

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Post-COVID-19 cognitive impairment: a new target for drug development?

Drug Discovery World

Biological mechanisms Given its prevalence and potential economic, societal and patient burden, post-Covid cognitive impairment seems an important target for treatment, be that through existing rehabilitations services, or digital, drug or biologic therapies. New therapeutics of course depend on an understanding of biological mechanisms.

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AI Tool CHIEF Paints a Landscape of a Cancer, Refining Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis

PLOS: DNA Science

Diagnosis began to shift from a body-part basis to a molecular one, which I wrote about in “Mutation and location important in cancer treatment” for The Lancet in 2015. This removes the cancer’s blocking of the immune response, so that T cells can fight the cancer.

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Biopharma Money on the Move: October 21-27

The Pharma Data

Former Sarepta Therapeutics executive Bo Cumbo left to launch his new gene therapy company, AavantiBio, with a $107 million Series A. AavantiBio’s strategic partnership with University of Florida’s Powell Gene Therapy Center provide their foundational research in rare genetic disorders. million in 2015. AavantiBio . Sirnaomics.