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Drug discovery hotspots: What is the secret to Switzerland’s success? (p1)

Drug Discovery World

In another example, university of Basel spin-off T3 Pharma reached Phase I development of a cancer therapy that harnesses the natural behaviours of live bacteria before being acquired by Boehringer Ingelheim for $509m at the end of 2023. BiopĂ´le Lausanne has been created to provide a focus for life sciences activity in the region.

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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

29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Phase 3 program in hospitalized patients to continue based on passing futility analysis on ability to reduce incidence of death or mechanical ventilation. As in earlier outpatient trial, immune status when patients entered the trial was a strong predictor of viral load and clinical outcomes.

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New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Positive Initial Regeneron Antibody Cocktail Results in Non-hospitalized Patients with COVID-19

The Pharma Data

(NASDAQ: REGN ) today announced that the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has published initial clinical data from an ongoing seamless Phase 1/2/3 trial of the antibody cocktail casirivimab and imdevimab in non-hospitalized patients with COVID-19. “The investigational cocktail is now available to indicated high-risk U.S.

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Europe: Where is the drug discovery innovation?

Drug Discovery World

A more established Amsterdam-based enterprise is gene therapy company uniQure, developer of etranacogene dezaparvovec, the first gene therapy for haemophilia B, which was approved for use in the US in November 2022 and in the EU in February 2023. The rights for etranacogene dezaparvovec were subsequently sold to CSL Pharmaceuticals.

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Advancing neurological therapies with Dr Bruce Leuchter

Drug Target Review

What challenges has the industry faced in developing and commercialising treatments for neurological diseases, including rare diseases? But commitment to neuroscience drug development is critically important given the significant unmet medical needs and the ways in which patients, caregivers, and families suffer.

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REGN-COV2 Independent Data Monitoring Committee Recommends Holding Enrollment in Hospitalized Patients with High Oxygen Requirements and Continuing Enrollment in Patients with Low or No Oxygen Requirements

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(NASDAQ: REGN) received today a recommendation from the independent data monitoring committee (IDMC) for the REGN-COV2 antibody cocktail treatment trials for COVID-19 that the current hospitalized patient trial be modified. About the REGN-COV2 Trial in Hospitalized Patients. Cohort 1A: patients not requiring oxygen.

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Phase 2/3 Studies of Molnupiravir, an Investigational Oral Antiviral Therapeutic for Mild to Moderate COVID-19.

The Pharma Data

The data were presented during the late-breaking clinical trials session at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID). In addition, Merck plans to initiate a clinical program to evaluate molnupiravir for post-exposure prophylaxis in the second half of 2021. “It