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Is Recent Gene Therapy Setback for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Déjà vu All Over Again?

PLOS: DNA Science

In the final chapter of my 2012 book The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It , I predicted that the technology would soon expand well beyond the rare disease world. Gene therapy clearly hasn’t had a major impact on health care, offering extremely expensive treatments for a few individuals with rare diseases.

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Europe: Where is the drug discovery innovation?

Drug Discovery World

billion on R&D during 2021, with Germany and Switzerland being the biggest contributors, and around one fourth of clinical trials worldwide were performed in Europe 1. Amsterdam: The centre of European life sciences As a result of the UK withdrawing from the EU, in 2019 the EMA headquarters was moved from London to Amsterdam.

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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. Molecular Therapy 20 , 1831-1832 (2012).

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Update on CALAVI Phase II Trials for Calquence in Patients Hospitalised with Respiratory Symptoms of COVID-19

The Pharma Data

12 November 2020 — The CALAVI Phase II trials for Calquence (acalabrutinib) in patients hospitalised with respiratory symptoms of COVID-19 did not meet the primary efficacy endpoint. No new safety signal for Calquence was observed in the trials. No new safety signal for Calquence was observed in the trials.

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Phase III study evaluating canakinumab (ACZ885) as second or third-line treatment in combination with chemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer

The Pharma Data

The trial was conducted among 237 adults with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose disease progressed while on or after previous platinum-based chemotherapy and PD-(L)1 inhibitor immunotherapy 4. Two Phase III CANOPY trials continue, evaluating canakinumab in first-line and adjuvant settings 2,3.

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Regeneron Announces Encouraging Initial Data from COVID-19 Antibody Cocktail Trial in Hospitalized Patients on Low-flow Oxygen

The Pharma Data

As in earlier outpatient trial, immune status when patients entered the trial was a strong predictor of viral load and clinical outcomes. First antibody therapy to demonstrate anti-viral effect in patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. futility analysis). . Yancopoulos , M.D.,

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Clover and Dynavax Announce Planned Global Phase 2/3 Efficacy Trial of Adjuvanted COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

The Pharma Data

Clover plans to initiate a global Phase 2/3 efficacy trial of its protein-based S-Trimer COVID-19 vaccine candidate adjuvanted with Dynavax’s CpG 1018 plus alum in the first half of 2021 with an interim analysis for vaccine efficacy potentially in the middle of 2021. EMERYVILLE, Calif. and CHENGDU, China , Feb.

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