Drug Hunter

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

This month features many of the big reveals from the ACS fall 2023 first disclosures including Nurix’s BTK degrader and RAPT’s CCR4 autoimmune therapy. III clinical trials such as Vertex’s sodium channel inhibitor for acute pain and Denali Therapeutics’ CNS-penetrant eIF2B activator for ALS.

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Antidote

AUGUST 21, 2023

Before any new treatment is able to be approved, it is required to go through the vigorous testing process known as clinical trials. These trials are aimed at determining whether or not a drug, medical device, therapy, or other type of intervention is safe and effective for the public.

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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

MAY 10, 2024

Over the past two decades, industry-sponsored clinical trials have targeted treatments for BPD, yielding some promising outcomes; however, broader psychiatric research often excludes BPD patients, a trend that extends to the emerging field of psychedelic studies.

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PPD

JANUARY 15, 2025

As clinical trials become increasingly complex, particularly in decentralized trials and rare disease studies, sponsors experience increased challenges in site selection, forecasting and resourcing, and patient recruitment and enrollment. Discover how AI is used to optimize key aspects of clinical trial management.

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Drugs.com

MAY 6, 2024

MONDAY, May 6, 2024 -- An injectable gene therapy caused measurable improvements in vision among a small group of people with inherited blindness, an early-stage clinical trial says.Researchers recruited 14 people with Leber Congenital Amaurosis.

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Antidote

AUGUST 29, 2022

In the world of medical research, experts are constantly looking for new drugs, treatments, and therapies for a variety of conditions — but the process of getting these treatments approved is only possible if they are tested through clinical trials.

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Codon

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Tom Ireland writes about the companies and technologies that are reimagining phage therapy. Soon after its publication, scientists, journalists, and investors were revisiting ‘phage therapy’ as a promising alternative to our failing antibiotics. Read it on our website here. Illustration by David S. Fast forward to 2023.

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Broad Institute

JUNE 27, 2024

Science (2024) Related content New gene delivery vehicle shows promise for human brain gene therapy My Quest to Cure Prion Disease — Before It’s Too Late | Sonia Vallabh | TED Prion diseases lead to rapid neurodegeneration and death and are caused by misshapen versions of the prion protein in the brain. “As

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Antidote

MAY 22, 2023

Participating in a clinical trial can be a worthwhile opportunity for any individual.

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Drugs.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

25, 2024 -- A new gene therapy approved earlier this year can serve as a sustainable single-dose treatment for people with hemophilia B, newly published clinical trial data shows. THURSDAY, Sept. People with hemophilia B saw their bleeding episodes.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Adults with hemophilia B saw their number of bleeding episodes drop by an average of 71 percent after a single infusion of gene therapy, according to the new results of an international Phase III clinical trial.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JUNE 5, 2024

A new clinical trial of five children with inherited deafness found administering gene therapy in both ears led to restored hearing and speech, and additional gains including sound source localization, ability to hear in noisy environments, and for two children, abillity to appreciate music.

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Drug Target Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

What key findings about stem cell behaviour, differentiation and integration within host tissues impact the development of stem cell therapies? Despite their potential, ADSC therapy faces several challenges in preclinical studies. Is there a certain disease or condition that you believe stem cell therapy holds the most promise for?

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PPD

AUGUST 5, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved therapies for treating PAH were primarily vasodilators, designed to overcome the imbalance between vasoactive and vasodilator mediators and to restore endothelial cell function. Historically, the available drugs and U.S. None offers a cure for PAH.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The 7th World Conference on Targeting Phage Therapy 2024, two-day event dedicated to advancing the field of phage research and therapy will be hosted at Corinthia Palace Malta on June 20-21.

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PPD

AUGUST 7, 2024

Clinical trials are the backbone of medical research, enabling the development of new treatments and therapies that can improve patient outcomes. However, conducting successful clinical trials requires efficient communication and coordination among various stakeholders.

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Drugs.com

JUNE 25, 2024

TUESDAY, June 25, 2024 -- An experimental stem cell therapy can essentially cure type 1 diabetes by restoring insulin production in some patients, early clinical trial results show.Seven out of 12 patients no longer needed daily insulin shots after.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Editas had the tall task Monday of convincing ASH attendees its gene therapy for sickle cell disease could improve on Casgevy and Lyfgenia.

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PLOS: DNA Science

MARCH 21, 2024

The Food and Drug Administration just announced approval of Lenmeldy (atidarsagene autotemcel), a gene therapy to treat the neurological condition metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD). The history of gene therapy for MLD is compelling – DNA Science covered it for Rare Disease Day in 2021, here. She passed away in 2013.

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Drug Target Review

JULY 3, 2023

Dr David Baram from gene therapy company EmendoBio provides a snapshot of the history of therapeutic genetic engineering, explaining the early pitfalls and reasons for recent renewed optimism.

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Drug Target Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

They do not induce ‘graft versus host’ disease when transplanted for allogeneic therapy and there appears little sign of immune rejection. Peripheral blood NK cells have been used in allogeneic cancer therapies and shown to be safe. CAR-NK cell trials only commenced in 2017 and most are still recruiting patients.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

JUNE 27, 2023

A Duchenne gene therapy faces a crucial test, while highly anticipated study results are expected in lung cancer, obesity and heart disease.

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Drugs.com

JUNE 12, 2023

MONDAY, June 12, 2023 -- A clinical trial that’s attempting to discover a cure for sickle cell disease has found a new gene therapy to be safe and successful in four patients. Two of the patients were treated at Cleveland Clinic Children’s in.

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Drugs.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

25, 2024 -- A new gene therapy approved earlier this year can serve as a sustainable single-dose treatment for people with hemophilia B, newly published clinical trial data shows.People with hemophilia B saw their bleeding episodes. THURSDAY, Sept.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

JUNE 4, 2024

A group of independent experts wasn't convinced by clinical trial data from company Lykos Therapeutics, which is seeking FDA approval of MDMA-assisted treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MAY 8, 2024

The study provides both mechanistic and preclinical evidence supporting the rapid initiation of clinical trials for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) to test an existing medicine that inhibits the complex, called eganelisib, both alone and in combination with the most used AML chemotherapy, cytarabine.

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Antidote

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Behind every new treatment is the incredible team of doctors, researchers, patients, and clinical trial specialists who worked on the research that made it possible.

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Drug Target Review

DECEMBER 20, 2024

However, recent breakthroughs in AI, such as predictive modelling, clinical trial optimisation, and personalised medicine, have demonstrated its potential. At the heart of Unlearns approach is the use of AI to improve clinical trials, especially in phases two and three.

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Fierce BioTech

AUGUST 14, 2024

Epilepsy Clinical Trials Finding an effective epilepsy treatment can be arduous. Download this brochure to delve into how IQVIA's expertise and innovative strategic approach can streamline the clinical trial process, helping to get new therapies to patients who need them sooner.

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Drug Target Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Our primary focus is to design and develop RNA therapies for liver diseases. Our team of chemists then uses this information to develop novel therapies. By doing this, we get a superior understanding of which therapies will and will not work in human biology before a clinical trial.

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PPD

AUGUST 14, 2024

Clinical trials have significantly increased in complexity over the last 20 years, creating new challenges. Patients are eager to participate in trials but remain largely unaware of their availability despite growing efforts to recruit.

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Drugs.com

JUNE 7, 2023

TUESDAY, June 6, 2023 -- Radiation therapy might not be necessary in treating some forms of rectal cancer and lymphoma, sparing patients from the toxic treatment, a pair of new clinical trials shows. One trial found that rectal cancer patients.

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Drug Target Review

AUGUST 28, 2024

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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Drugs.com

DECEMBER 15, 2023

15, 2023 -- Patients with advanced heart failure can benefit from stem cell therapy, a large, new clinical trial has found.Injections of stem cells programmed to heal damaged heart tissue wound up improving overall quality of life for. FRIDAY, Dec.

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FDA Law Blog: Drug Discovery

MARCH 13, 2023

Who better than people living with a condition to inform drug companies, physicians, academics, and the FDA on what it is like to live with their condition, what symptoms most impact their lives, what goes into their decision about whether to participate in a clinical trial, and what kind of treatment effects would be most meaningful to them?

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Expert advisers to the agency voted 17-1 that Brainstorm's clinical trial data did not show the company's stem cell treatment was effective for treating ALS.

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Antidote

JULY 29, 2022

billion to bring a new therapy to market. Between 2009 and 2018, U.S. biopharmaceutical companies spent about $1 billion per drug according to an analysis published in JAMA , and other studies have found that it can cost up to $2.8 In 2019 alone, research and development spending totaled $186 billion for the global pharmaceutical industry.

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