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Next-generation pipeline for treating mast cell driven diseases 

Drug Discovery World

Granular Therapeutics has now commenced proof-of-concept (POC) and IND-enabling studies as it prepares for clinical development. Since starting work on these concepts in 2019 with backing from Medicxi, Granular Therapeutics has studied the biology of mast cells and their role in chronic inflammatory diseases.

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Merck Announces Retirement of Dr. Roy D. Baynes; Dr. Eliav Barr Appointed Head of Global Clinical Development and Chief Medical Officer

The Pharma Data

Baynes, head of Global Clinical Development (GCD) and Chief Medical Officer, Merck Research Laboratories (MRL), will be retiring from Merck in July. He also led the expansion of Merck’s research and development in China and Japan. “It Baynes will be succeeded by Dr. Eliav Barr, senior vice president, Global Clinical Development.

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Discovery and development of COVID?19 vaccine from laboratory to clinic

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

SARS-CoV-2 is responsible for the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) which is one of the most widespread and powerful infections affecting human lungs. WHO proclaimed the outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD), in 2014 that killed hundreds of people in West Africa.

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New drug reduced renal damage in septic patients

Drug Discovery World

Loreto Gesualdo, full Professor, Head of the Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy, and lead investigator of the RACERS study, stated: “There is a complete lack of treatment options for septic patients at high risk of developing acute kidney injury, a disease that in 2019 had an estimated 13.7

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Janssen submits EMA filing for bladder cancer treatment 

Drug Discovery World

N Engl J Med 2019; 381(4):338-348. Prognostic value and clinical significance of FGFR genomic alterations (GAs) in metastatic urothelial cancer patients. Europe has one of the highest rates of bladder cancer in the world 1 , with more than 203,000 patients diagnosed in 2020 alone 2. Fernandez E, et al. J Clin Med.

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Novavax Announces COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Development Progress

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Nasdaq: NVAX), a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today provided an update on its COVID-19 vaccine program. About NVX-CoV2373 NVX-CoV2373 is a protein-based vaccine candidate engineered from the genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease.

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International Women’s Day: Female life science leaders

Drug Discovery World

She has previously been named an MIT Technology Review Top Innovator Under 35, a Forbes 50 Top Women In Tech, a Deloitte Fast 50 Women in Leadership, and has won several prizes, including CEO of Year 2019 at the Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards and Best Female-Led Startup at the StartUp Europe Awards in 2019.