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Macrophage cell therapy: a new hope for chronic liver disease patients

Drug Target Review

Once a patient develops advanced cirrhosis/end-stage liver disease there are no specific therapies to significantly avoid major decompensations and death in the next few years. Could you describe the platform of macrophage biology and cell engineering used by Resolution Therapeutics in developing their cell therapies?

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Women in Stem with Dr Amber D. Van Laar

Drug Target Review

Through further research and work as a principal investigator on clinical studies for several central nervous system indications, I laid the groundwork for a career in gene therapy drug development. AskBio) I continue to work to bring innovative gene therapies to patients in need.

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Not all neoantigens are created equal

Drug Target Review

In most cancers, the tumour evolves by acquiring mutations that confer growth advantages or resistance to therapies. However, if the therapy targets only the subclonal (branch) mutations, this will result in the mere ‘pruning’ of specific branches rather than elimination of the whole cancer.

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Targeting the immunotherapy potential of cytokines IL-12 and IL-18 with new advancements in protein engineering

Drug Target Review

We are in an era of immuno-oncology (IO) revolution with many approved therapies now available to treat a broad range of cancers. For the last several years, the field has worked to unlock the potential of IO therapies for additional tumour types, and has explored options beyond checkpoint inhibitors.

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VarmX appoints Dr. Gerard Short as Chief Medical Officer

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Short will be responsible for overseeing the clinical development of VarmX’s pipeline, including progression of its lead product, VMX-C001, into clinical proof of concept and registrational studies. During this time, he grew the medical, clinical, and regulatory groups, and established an in-house pharmacovigilance function.

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Breast Cancer

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In this exploratory analysis, Trodelvy demonstrated a clinically meaningful improvement in median OS benefit compared to TPC (median OS: 14.5 At this stage of disease, sequential chemotherapy is common, and benefits may become smaller with subsequent lines of therapy. months vs. 11.2 months; hazard ratio (HR): 0.79; [95% CI: 0.65-0.95];

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SRP-001: redefining pain treatment with a safer, non-opioid analgesic

Drug Target Review

Overall, SRP-001’s modulation of pain signalling genes and pathways through endocannabinoid enhancement and FAAH inhibition supports its potential as an effective non-opioid pain therapeutic, validating the planned clinical trials. was founded in 2016 to develop safer, non-opioid therapies for acute and chronic pain.