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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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Cancer vaccine shows sustained improvement in survival rates

Drug Discovery World

The combination therapy was also shown to reduce the risk of distant metastasis or death by 62% compared to Keytruda alone in these patients. Moderna recently secured FDA approval for the first mRNA vaccine to treat something other than Covid-19 – it’s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine mRESVIA (mRNA-1345).

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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

The Pharma Data

Baynes, head of Global Clinical Development (GCD) and Chief Medical Officer, Merck Research Laboratories (MRL), will be retiring from Merck in July. Li, president, Merck Research Laboratories, until his retirement. He also led the expansion of Merck’s research and development in China and Japan. “It

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Drug discovery’s top-level movers and shakers

Drug Discovery World

David Favre, Chief Development Officer, SpliceBio Dr Favre brings more than 25 years of experience in gene therapy, immunology and drug development throughout academia and the biopharma industry. It’s been another busy month for senior appointments in the drug discovery sector.

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Merck and Moderna to jointly develop personalised cancer vaccine 

Drug Discovery World

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. .

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A2 Biotherapeutics Entered Into Collaboration Agreement With Merck to Develop Allogeneic Cell Therapy for Solid Tumor Cancers

The Pharma Data

Merck will assist with preclinical development and has the option to exclusively develop, manufacture and commercialize the candidate following Phase 1. Perlmutter, President, Merck Research Laboratories. “We About A2 Biotherapeutics.

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KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) Demonstrated Superior Disease-Free Survival (DFS) Compared With Placebo as Adjuvant Therapy in Patients With Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) Following Surgery

The Pharma Data

Roy Baynes, senior vice president and head of global clinical development, chief medical officer, Merck Research Laboratories. KEYTRUDA is an anti-PD-1 therapy that works by increasing the ability of the body’s immune system to help detect and fight tumor cells. In the U.S.

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