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Potentially game-changing schizophrenia drug enters Phase I trials

Drug Discovery World

Our work with Neumora is the very definition of translational research and the work we aim to do every day, which is applying innovation and discovery to help address the world’s most complex challenges.”

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Akari Therapeutics and Peak Bio announce merger

Drug Discovery World

Biotechnology company Akari Therapeutics and biopharmaceutical company Peak Bio have announced a definitive agreement to merge as equals in an all-stock transaction. The programme was licensed from Bayer Healthcare and is a fifth generation neutrophil elastase inhibitor (NEI) targeting the inflammatory aspects of AATD, a rare condition.

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Covid researchers launch Monkeypox study  

Drug Discovery World

The medicine was licensed earlier this year by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). For the benefit of current and future patients worldwide who have been diagnosed with monkeypox, we need definitive evidence that tecovirimat is safe and effective.

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Dragonfly Therapeutics and Bristol Myers Squibb Announce Exclusive Global License for Dragonfly’s IL-12 Investigational Immunotherapy Program

The Pharma Data

This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding, among other things, the research, development and commercialization of pharmaceutical products and the definitive agreement with Dragonfly (the “Definitive Agreement”).

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FDA’s Revised Draft Guidance on Biological Product Promotion Provides Additional Recommendations/Clarifications

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

The Revised Draft Guidance emphasizes that where multiple products are licensed as biosimilar to and interchangeable with or biosimilar to but not interchangeable with the same reference product, promotional communications should avoid suggesting that any of the products are less safe or effective than each other for their approved uses.

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FDA Knows Its Own Strength—and It Includes Concentration

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Amongst other things, FDA co-opted many of the same definitions for key terms for implementation of the BPCIA. FDA borrowed this definition from 21 C.F.R. FDA replied that its definition of strength including concentration was clear even in 2009. mL), to be biosimilar to or interchangeable with High Concentration Humira (e.g.,

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PharmaDrug Enters Definitive Agreement for Acquisition of Sairiyo Therapeutics Inc. Who Recently Received Orphan Drug Designation from FDA for Esophageal Cancer

The Pharma Data

1 Sairiyo has an exclusive license from a research and development organization to develop and commercialize reformulated Cepharanthine for all diseases and exclusive rights to the patent, method of manufacturing, clinical supply, pre-clinical data and know-how to support FDA clinical trials. PharmaDrug Inc.

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