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The rising impact of biomarkers in early clinical development

Drug Target Review

As our understanding of the underlying biology of disease grows more sophisticated, emerging therapies operate on increasingly complex biopathological systems and mechanisms. 2 This progress has implications for diagnosis, therapeutic efficacy, and potentially establishing clinically relevant endpoints.

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The future of mental health treatment: Zelquistinel’s role

Drug Target Review

By adjusting the activity of this receptor, these drugs can influence brain functions associated with mood, cognition and pain, positioning them as potential treatments for conditions like depression, cognitive disorders and neurological diseases. The drug’s pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) are closely linked.

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Advances in the Battle Against Autoimmune Disease

The Pharma Data

A healthy immune system defends the body against disease and other conditions. Autoimmune disease impacts different parts of the body, weakening functionality. Researchers are aware of more than 80 diseases that occur when the immune system attacks the body’s own organs, tissues and cells. It may be life-threatening.

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Deconstructing the Diligence Process: An Approach to Vetting New Product Theses

LifeSciVC

Target validation : Do we believe the target(s) plays a central role in disease biology and that modulation will modify disease? I will note that “de-risked” is never fully risk-free in therapeutics investing, as even precedented mechanisms hit stumbling blocks in preclinical or clinical development.

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ESMO Reflections: Glimmers of Hope with the Next Wave of I-O Therapies?

LifeSciVC

In spite of somewhat arduous clinical development pathways, these data sets are now providing some cautious optimism for each mechanism’s potential to drive benefits for NSCLC patients. Changes in both proximal measures of CBL-B inhibition and downstream measures of its ability to activate the immune system.

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Protalix BioTherapeutics and Chiesi Global Rare Diseases Announce Final Results of BRIDGE Phase III Open-Label, Switch-Over Clinical Trial Evaluating Pegunigalsidase Alfa for the Treatment of Fabry Disease

The Pharma Data

(NYSE American:PLX) (TASE:PLX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, production and commercialization of recombinant therapeutic proteins produced by its proprietary ProCellEx ® plant cell-based protein expression system, and Chiesi Global Rare Diseases , a business unit of Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A.,

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Novartis iptacopan meets primary endpoints in Phase II study in rare kidney disease C3 glomerulopathy (C3G)

The Pharma Data

About the study NCT03832114 is a Phase II, open- marker, two cohort,non-randomized study assessing the efficacity, safety and pharmacokinetics of iptacopan in cases with C3 glomerulopathy (C3G) ( cohort A) and cases who have experienced order transplantation and have posterior C3G rush in the transplanted organ ( cohort B).

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