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Bayer reports positive early data for Parkinson’s cell therapy

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The treatment, developed by a biotech Bayer acquired in 2019, appeared safe in a small trial and showed signs of an effect on disease progression.

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Why brain cancer is often resistant to immunotherapy

Broad Institute

They also found that patients treated with dexamethasone, a common treatment for brain cancer patients, showed signs of one of the immunosuppressive programs, suggesting that this drug could reduce the effectiveness of immunotherapy. With this approach, the team identified four programs shaping the immune system.

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Buprenorphine now replaces methadone as the most common medicine for opioid dependence’: 10-year trends in opioid agonist treatment medicines in Australia

National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre Blog

Kendal Chidwick NDARC’s Kendal Chidwick discusses the findings from a recently published study that examined how patterns of opioid agonist treatment medicines have changed over the past decade. In September 2019, a new formulation of long-acting injectable buprenorphine became available on the PBS.

Treatment 133
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The future of lymphoma treatment

Drug Target Review

ARC-02 is our anti-CD79b targeting ADC in development for the treatment of relapsed/refractory (r/r) follicular lymphoma (FL), for which there are currently no approved ADCs, as well as r/r diffuse B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). The ADC uses the same antibody and drug payload as the approved Polivy®, however, it uses Araris’ linker technology.

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Unveiling neoantigen-directed cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

This exclusive interview with Dr Sharon Benzeno, Chief Commercial Officer, Immune Medicine at Adaptive Biotechnologies, unveils some ground-breaking research on T- cell therapy for cancer , which has seen the first TCR-based therapeutic candidate progress to clinical development, offering promising advancements in innovative cancer treatments.

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Merck says drug acquired in $1B buyout scores in large kidney cancer study

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The treatment, which Merck picked up through a 2019 acquisition of Peloton Therapeutics, helped delay disease progression in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

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Biochemical assays and deep cyclic inhibition in cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

Molecular-level biochemical assays like transcriptomics, genomics and proteomics have emerged as valuable tools for identifying potential targets in cancer treatment through deep cyclic inhibition (DCI). How does the DCI mechanism compare to the design of other drugs for cancer treatment?