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FDA Approves Roche’s ENSPRYNG for Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD)

The Pharma Data

First and only FDA-approved subcutaneous treatment option for anti-aquaporin-4 antibody positive NMOSD that can be self-administered by a person with NMOSD or a caregiver every four weeks. First and only approved therapy for NMOSD designed to target and inhibit interleukin-6 receptor activity, using novel recycling antibody technology.

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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You The U.S. regulatory landscape for probiotics and other microbiome-based therapies

Agency IQ

regulatory landscape for probiotics and other microbiome-based therapies Probiotics, a type of microbiome-based therapy containing live micro-organisms, are broadly available on drug store and grocery store shelves, but the regulatory classifications for products containing the same micro-organism can differ dramatically.

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Who are the AACR Scientific Achievement Award winners?

Drug Discovery World

He is being recognised for his revolutionary contributions to developing the first gene-edited cell-based therapy for cancer that involves the genetic re-engineering of a patient’s own T cells to combat their disease, and for demonstrating that adoptive T-cell therapy can induce remission and in some cases cure patients with advanced cancer.

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Improving quality control for CAR T cell therapies

Drug Discovery World

But decades of research led to improvements in cancer therapy, centred around the idea that one’s immune system could aid in treatment. Next, the advent of antibody treatments in 1997 created the first targeted cancer therapy 2. Since 2017, five CAR T cell therapies have been approved and have shown incredible success in the clinic.

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Cell and gene therapy – where is the innovation? 

Drug Discovery World

Here, DDW Editor Reece Armstrong explores the global hubs of innovation for cell and gene therapies. Since the approval of Kymirah in 2017, the cell and gene therapy sector has emerged as an exciting and innovative market, representing some of the most promising drugs the pharmaceutical industry has ever seen. .

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New data show Roche’s ENSPRYNG (satralizumab) significantly reduces severity and risk of relapse in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD)

The Pharma Data

The patients treated with ENSPRYNG were also less likely to require rescue therapy for a relapse compared with placebo (OR 0.46; 95% CI, 0.25–0.86, ENSPRYNG is approved in Canada, Japan, Switzerland and the U.S. Additional applications are under review with numerous regulators, including in the EU and China. 0.86, p=0.015).

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Janssen Announces Treatment with ERLEADA

The Pharma Data

In addition, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), per total Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–Prostate (FACT-P), continued to be maintained with ERLEADA ®. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for nmCRPC on February 14, 2018 and was approved for mCSPC on September 17, 2019.