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How ready are we for radioligand therapies?  

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DDW Editor Reece Armstrong speaks to Jasminka Taleska , Director, RLT HCS Readiness and Policy at Novartis, about the opportunities radioligand therapies (RLTs) represent in treating cancer patients. The post How ready are we for radioligand therapies? RA: What are the potentials of RLTs across cancer? JT: This is very important 6.

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Drug’s unique mechanism of action targets schizophrenia abnormalities

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Long-term, 25% of treated patients treated with evenamide as an add-on therapy met the criteria for remission, a result that Stephen Marder, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the Semel Institute of Neuroscience & Human Behavior, has described as “remarkable and unprecedented”.

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Precision cancer therapies: Where are we?

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DDW’s Diana Spencer reports on the recent Avacta Therapeutics Science Day, which explored the latest exciting developments in targeted treatments for cancer and asked what advances the future might bring. Komanduri suggested synthetic biology could increase efficacy of CAR-T cell therapy in the future.He

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Expert view: What’s next for cell and gene therapy?

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What are the global innovations in cell and gene therapy? What opportunities and challenges are emerging and can therapies get to market faster? The deeper the understanding of product and process from a characterisation standpoint, the smoother the regulatory conversations and development pathway will be.” The solution?

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Researchers hope to cure HIV using CAR-T cells

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University of California researchers have dosed the second participant in their clinical trial to identify a potential cure for HIV utilising CAR-T cell therapy. The trial is the first-in-human clinical study investigating the duo CAR-T cell therapy for the treatment of HIV. “We

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AI drug discovery company closes $200m Series B financing

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A Series B financing round has raised Genesis Therapeutics’ total capital to over $280 million, which will be used to bring the company’s artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled pipeline into clinical development.

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Merck Announces Retirement of Dr. Roy D. Baynes; Dr. Eliav Barr Appointed Head of Global Clinical Development and Chief Medical Officer

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Baynes, head of Global Clinical Development (GCD) and Chief Medical Officer, Merck Research Laboratories (MRL), will be retiring from Merck in July. He also led the expansion of Merck’s research and development in China and Japan. “It Baynes will be succeeded by Dr. Eliav Barr, senior vice president, Global Clinical Development.