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CAR-T therapy for nasopharyngeal cancer enters Phase II trials

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a Phase II clinical trial for Biosyngen’s BRG01, an EBV-specific CAR-T cell therapy. This marks the first cell therapy to enter Phase lI trials in both the US and China for the treatment of relapsed/metastatic EBV-positive nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

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Integration of AI in imaging clinical trials 

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Sophie Winandy , Executive Director of Medical Imaging at ICON explores the benefits of AI and how it can be integrated throughout medical imaging within clinical trials. These advances are seen in many indications of imaging as it relates to drug trials – oncological, cardiovascular, metabolic, NASH, musculoskeletal and other.

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$20 million in new funding to make clinical trials more inclusive

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Clinical trial technology platform Inato, based in Paris, France, has closed a $20 million Series A funding from investors including Cathay Innovation, Obvious Ventures, La Maison and Top Harvest Capital. Today, 70% of clinical research happens at the same 5% of sites, and only 5% of patients participate in a clinical trial.

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Antibody treatment for geographic atrophy enters clinical trials

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Boehringer Ingelheim and CDR-Life entered a licensing agreement in May 2020 and announced the selection of an antibody fragment-based therapeutic candidate in September 2021.

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Report: huge inequalities in access to myeloma clinical trials in Europe 

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Myeloma Patients Europe (MPE) has launched an advocacy report on addressing access barriers to myeloma clinical trials in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). . The MPE report presents clinical trial analytics, looking at the number of clinical trials held in CEE countries between 1 January 2001 and 28 September 2020.

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Calidi Biotherapeutics gets FDA go-ahead for US trial  

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Biotechnology company Calidi Biotherapeutics has announced that a Phase I US clinical trial will use the company’s licensed oncolytic virotherapy platform NeuroNova to deliver an oncolytic adenovirus selectively to tumor sites in patients with recurrent high-grade glioma. . Official comments . Worldwide,?an

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Emerging Trends in Clinical Trial Design

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The COVID-19 pandemic rapidly accelerated the adoption of hybrid and decentralized clinical trial (DCT) models. However, as the world settles into its post-pandemic state and returns to pre-pandemic paradigms in many areas, the pharmaceutical industry remains dedicated to moving beyond traditional, centralized clinical trial constructs.