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Merck and Moderna to develop a personalised cancer vaccine

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“We have been collaborating with Merck on PCVs since 2016, and together we have made significant progress in advancing mRNA-4157 as an investigational personalised cancer treatment used in combination with KEYTRUDA,” said Stephen Hoge, President of Moderna.

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Cancer vaccine shows sustained improvement in survival rates

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months after initial treatment. Ultimately it will contribute to survival rates improving continually over the next decades and more.” The follow-up of the Phase IIb study took place 34.9 It showed that the 2.5-year year recurrence-free survival rate of mRNA-4157 with Keytruda was 74.8% compared to 55.6% for Keytruda alone.

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Merck and Moderna to jointly develop personalised cancer vaccine 

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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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FDA Approves Updated Indication for Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) for Treatment.

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In addition, as part of the label update, this indication has been revised to be for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC) who are not eligible for any platinum-containing chemotherapy. Source link: [link].

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

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What are the main challenges currently faced in the treatment of chronic liver diseases, and how does Resolution Therapeutics aim to address these challenges? 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.

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

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

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Could Keytruda/Lenvima Combo Help Treat Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma?

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The trial looked at a combination of Keytruda from Merck and Lenvima from Eisai for the treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The results from KEYNOTE-581/CLEAR (Study 307) support the potential use of KEYTRUDA plus LENVIMA for the first-line treatment of advanced RCC. Merck , also known as MSD outside of the U.S.