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JULY 26, 2023

A Cancer Research UK-funded clinical trial has shown, for the first time, that a new class of antibody could benefit cancer patients whose existing treatments have stopped working. The drug, MOv18 IgE, was developed by researchers at King’s College London.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

AstraZeneca has signed a licensing deal with UK-based biotech company Redx Pharma for its fibrotic disease candidate RXC006. Redx is also eligible to receive up to $360m in additional payments, dependent on development, regulatory and commercial milestones, as well as tiered royalties on any future sales.

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JUNE 1, 2023

Roberto Iacone, CEO at Alentis Therapeutics, said: “There are huge unmet needs in organ fibrosis and cancer, and this funding enables us to continue with the important work we’re doing in the CLDN1 space and generate clinical data from both our programs.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 7, 2024

A combined pipeline of therapeutic candidates Akari’s nomacopan is a bispecific recombinant inhibitor of complement C5 and leukotriene B4 (LTB4) being evaluated in a Phase III clinical trial for paediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant-related thrombotic microangiopathy (HSCT-TMA).

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Under a new agreement, Destiny Pharma and Sebela Pharmaceuticals will co-develop NTCD-M3, Destiny’s lead asset for the prevention of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) recurrence.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

The positive opinion is based on findings from the pivotal HOPE-B trial, which showed that patients treated with etranacogene dezaparvovec demonstrated durable increases in mean Factor IX activity levels which led to an adjusted annualised bleed rate (ABR) reduction of 64%. . World’s most expensive drug.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Merck has exercised its option to jointly develop and commercialise personalised cancer vaccine (PCV) mRNA-4157/V940 pursuant to the terms of its existing collaboration and license agreement with Moderna. . KEYNOTE-942 is an ongoing randomised, open-label Phase II trial that enrolled 157 patients with high-risk melanoma.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

Chiesi and Oak Hill Bio intend to continue a Phase IIb clinical trial in 2024 in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Clinical studies conducted to date have demonstrated OHB-607’s potential to significantly reduce the risk of severe BPD. of Perspective’s shares for up to $33 million.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Using IgE to treat cancer In the UK, a Cancer Research UK-funded clinical trial has shown, for the first time, that a new class of antibody could benefit cancer patients whose existing treatments have stopped working. “Cancer shredding could hold potential not only for glioblastoma, but possibly for other hypermutated tumours.”

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MAY 7, 2021

regulators to seek approval of our COVID-19 vaccine based on our pivotal Phase 3 trial and follow-up data.”. Pfizer and BioNTech initiated the BLA by submitting the nonclinical and clinical data needed to support licensure of the COVID-19 vaccine for use in individuals 16 years of age and older. “We are pleased to work with U.S.

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MARCH 7, 2023

She has over 15 years’ experience in corporate finance and restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and intellectual property licensing. Powers taught for more than six years at the National Institutes of Health, on medical product development and commercialisation, and at Georgetown Law School as an adjunct professor.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A new treatment for G4-targeted solid tumors including pancreatic cancer has been administered to patients for the first time in a Phase 1a clinical trial. This latest development follows the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) giving clearance for QN-302 in July 2023 to proceed to this initial clinical trial stage.

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MARCH 11, 2021

Clinical trial to assess safety, immune response and reactogenicity, after preclinical data showed high neutralizing antibody levels. The Companies expect interim results from this trial in the third quarter of 2021. MRT5500 is being developed under a collaboration and license agreement between Sanofi Pasteur and Translate Bio.

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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

During clinical development, new chemical entities (NCEs) require an absorption, metabolism, and excretion (AME) study. The post Why Proactive AME Studies are Critical to Accelerating Your Approval Journey appeared first on Worldwide Clinical Trials.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The lead candidate, HTL0022562, has advanced through preclinical development demonstrating promising and differentiated properties for further investigation in human trials. We look forward to working on this new collaboration with Biohaven, a world leader in the clinical development of CGRP-targeted therapies.”

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JULY 2, 2024

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. Biopôle Lausanne has been created to provide a focus for life sciences activity in the region.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A new treatment for G4-targeted solid tumors including pancreatic cancer has been administered to patients for the first time in a Phase 1a clinical trial. This latest development follows the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) giving clearance for QN-302 in July 2023 to proceed to this initial clinical trial stage.

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JUNE 7, 2022

The new findings from the Phase 3 clinical trials (ADvocate 1 and 2) showed eight out of ten patients who achieved clinical response (EASI-75*) with lebrikizumab monotherapy at 16 weeks maintained skin clearance at one year of treatment with the once every two weeks or four weeks regimen. Almirall S.A.’s

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JULY 22, 2024

In addition to BSB-1001, BlueSphere has also discovered and nominated three additional miHA-targeting TCRs for clinical development, all for use in the same clinical setting as BSB-1001. His experience includes raising capital in public markets and closing various deals, such as licenses and strategic collaborations.

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MAY 6, 2024

billion on R&D during 2021, with Germany and Switzerland being the biggest contributors, and around one fourth of clinical trials worldwide were performed in Europe 1. The city is host to many innovative biotech companies, including relative newcomers Orexa, a company that recently launched its first Phase II clinical trial.

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MARCH 8, 2021

We continue to make progress in our Phase 2/3 clinical programs evaluating molnupiravir in both outpatient and hospital settings and plan to provide updates when appropriate,” said Dr. Roy Baynes, senior vice president and head of global clinical development, chief medical officer, Merck Research Laboratories.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Dr Pandora Pound , Fellow Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics explores the hinderances of animal testing in pharma and why new technologies such AI, genomics and synthetic biology c an further drug development. This was confirmed in human trials and the drug was subsequently approved by the FDA. ATLA Altern to Lab Anim. 2009;37(SUPPL.

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LifeSciVC

JULY 17, 2024

By Mike Cloonan, Chief Executive Officer of Sionna Therapeutics, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC The drug development process in rare diseases is rife with challenges especially when companies target significant differentiation or first-in-class targets.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

million from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health, the company plans to begin a Phase Ia clinical trial evaluating its lead tau self- association small molecule inhibitor OLX-07010. . Diseases such as PSP and FTD have no licensed and available treatments. With its recent award of $3.35

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For patients with ‘cold’ tumours where there is a paucity of killer T-cells, or in ‘hot’ tumours that have become resistant to licensed checkpoint inhibitors, there are currently very few effective therapeutic options available. RA: What kind of cancers could benefit from this treatment approach?

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JANUARY 3, 2021

United Kingdom Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency authorized Clinical Trial Application. With these important regulatory clearances for our first-in-human clinical trial for INZ-701 in subjects with ENPP1 deficiency, we have transitioned from a research-stage to a clinical-stage company. “We

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AUGUST 10, 2020

Novavax is partnering up with the Serum Institute of India Private Limited (SIIPL) in a licensing deal to development and marketing of up to one billion doses of its potential recombinant COVID-19 vaccine candidate, NVX?CoV2373. The candidate is built upon a stable, prefusion protein and includes Novavax’s Matrix?M M adjuvant.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Many diagnoses are made clinically based on a patient’s symptoms, as opposed to genetic testing or established biomarker profiles. This can present challenges when attempting to recruit an enriched patient population for clinical trials. We were able to license a molecule from a multi-national pharmaceutical company.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

.” MindMed Chief Development Officer Rob Barrow said, “Psychedelic therapies offer a once in a lifetime opportunity to revolutionize the delivery of mental healthcare.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

This Phase 1 trial will evaluate the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of SEFA-1024 in 96 otherwise healthy volunteers with elevated plasma triglyceride levels. ‘SEFA’ stands for Structurally Engineered Fatty Acid, i.e. chemically engineered fatty acids, to generate compounds with differentiated physiochemical properties.

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APRIL 27, 2022

We plan to discuss these data with health authorities, and we will continue to expand our tislelizumab clinical development program in pursuit of novel, synergistic combinations with the ultimate goal of extending survival for more patients.”. About Novartis Novartis is reimagining medicine to improve and extend people’s lives.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

As in earlier outpatient trial, immune status when patients entered the trial was a strong predictor of viral load and clinical outcomes. The primary clinical objective of this initial analysis was to determine if there was sufficient efficacy in these patients to warrant continuing the trial (i.e.,

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JANUARY 14, 2021

(NASDAQ: FPRX) today announced clinical results from the global, randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled Phase 2 FIGHT trial evaluating first-in-class targeted therapy bemarituzumab in advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancer. Phase 2 FIGHT Trial: Summary of Efficacy*. Wainberg, M.D.,

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Under the agreement, which may generate revenue for BioInvent of up to SEK 30 million , BioInvent will provide process development, scale-up, supply of material for toxicological studies and clinical grade material in 1000L scale for use in phase I and II clinical trials.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

At Ultimovacs, he will lead all business and corporate development efforts and continue to maintain and foster connections with leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. “In Mr. Berkien is currently a board member of the Nordic Pharma Licensing Group.

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JULY 12, 2021

Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics announced today the presentation of previously announced Phase 2 interim results from two Phase 2/3 clinical trials (MOVe-OUT and MOVe-IN) of molnupiravir (MK-4482/EIDD-2801), an investigational oral antiviral therapeutic.

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LifeSciVC

JANUARY 16, 2024

Rise of the best-in-class biologics plays: Are you looking to in-license or invest in “de-risked” biology that is already in the clinic? Finally, I would be remiss if I didn’t caveat that we still see many clinical failures even for “de-risked” biology, as nothing is ever truly low-risk in our industry. Additional trials (e.g.,

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