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Endometriosis partners to discover personalised treatments

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PrecisionLife and the University of Oxford have signed a data access agreement to license the Oxford Endometriosis Gene (OXEGENE) dataset to develop new personalised treatments for endometriosis patients. The post Endometriosis partners to discover personalised treatments appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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Antibody treatment for geographic atrophy enters clinical trials

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Collaborators Boehringer Ingelheim and CDR-Life have commenced a Phase I evaluation of BI 771716, their antibody fragment-based treatment developed to preserve the vision of people with geographic atrophy (GA).

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EU approval for first oral treatment for lupus nephritis

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Otsuka Pharmaceutical’s Lupkynis (voclosporin) is the first oral treatment to be approved in Europe for the treatment of active lupus nephritis (LN) in adult patients. The combination treatment for this indication was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2021 and gained a positive opinion from the CHMP earlier this year.

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Great Britain first to approve CRISPR-based gene therapy

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Casgevy (exagamglogene autotemcel, or exa-cel) is the first medicine to be licensed that uses gene editing tool CRISPR, for which its inventors were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2020. Of these eligible patients, 28 (97%) were free of severe pain crises for at least 12 months after treatment.

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Astellas’ urothelial cancer drug approved in China

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China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has accepted the Biologics License Application (BLA) for enfortumab vedotin for urothelial cancer. The approval is in patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer (la/mUC) who have received prior treatment with a PD-1/L1 inhibitor and platinum-based chemotherapy. “In

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Antibody fragment-based drug could slow geographic atrophy

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Boehringer Ingelheim and CDR-Life entered a collaboration and licensing agreement in May 2020 and announced the selection of an antibody fragment-based therapeutic candidate in September 2021. GA is a progressive, irreversible retinal disease and one of the leading causes of blindness in people over 65 years of age.

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License agreement with KYM Biosciences for CMG901, a Claudin-18.2 antibody drug conjugate, completed

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AstraZeneca has completed an exclusive global license agreement with KYM Biosciences Inc. CMG901 is currently being evaluated in a Phase I trial for the treatment of Claudin 18.2-positive CMG901 is being developed for the treatment of solid tumours that express the cell surface protein Claudin 18.2, including gastric cancers.