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MAY 18, 2023

For neurodegenerative disease research, the care partner, or caregiver, is equally important as the person with dementia. Even with stronger awareness of studies, drug developers must contend with the inherent lack of trust between the dementia community and clinical trials. There’s little time to lose.

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APRIL 4, 2022

Rare Disease Innovation & Partnering Summit. Hybrid Event May 17-19, 2022 | Boston, MA www.informaconnect.com/rare. Don’t miss the Rare Disease Innovation & Partnering Summit, coming up May 17-19, 2022 in Boston, MA. Visit www.informaconnect.com/rare for further details and to register. d/b/a Drug Channels Institute.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

Positive high-level results from the FoCus Phase III trial in Wilson disease showed ALXN1840 met the primary endpoint with a statistically significant improvement in daily mean copper mobilisation from tissues, demonstrating superiority compared with standard-of-care (SoC) treatments.

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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

95% of rare diseases don’t have a treatment approved and won’t anytime soon. Over the next few decades, that drug made its way through clinical trials, securing approval in 2007—just 36 months before Rob was diagnosed in 2010. Uplifting Athletes (UA) is on a mission to change that. But what was truly remarkable?

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Advarra

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Assessing and reporting adverse events (AEs) in clinical trials is critical to ensuring the study is as safe as possible and the participants have the most up to date information so they can decide whether to continue their participation in the research study. Who Should Assess AEs in Clinical Trials? regulations.

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Broad Institute

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Brain disorders are difficult to study and many drug candidates have failed in clinical trials, causing pharmaceutical companies to reduce their investments or even exit the field entirely. Without robust biomarkers, we cannot account for this mechanistic diversity and appropriately match patients with candidate treatments in clinical trials.

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APRIL 12, 2024

The landscape of clinical research is undergoing major changes with virtual clinical trials driving these transformations. These innovative trials promise to revolutionise the way medical research is conducted, making it more accessible, efficient, and patient-centric than ever before.

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LifeSciVC

JANUARY 16, 2024

recent announcements from Merck and Sanofi for obesity and broader metabolic disease). Still may be some merit if they are clinical-stage and can achieve once-daily dosing without too steep a cut in efficacy or worsened adverse events vs. peptides, but be wary of the intensely competitive landscape. Additional trials (e.g.,

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Codon

JANUARY 21, 2024

Today, refined versions of these human challenge studies have become standard practice in testing vaccines for vector-borne diseases (e.g., yellow fever, malaria, and dengue), evaluating new drugs or treatments, and studying pathogenesis, the process by which a disease develops. Why are challenge trials becoming more popular?

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

functions to reset the immune system and potentially provide remission for allergic diseases? In allergic diseases, APCs identify and present unknown antigens to the immune system. This can lead to inadequate long-term effectiveness with low rates of disease remission. They also require frequent administration.

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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

APRIL 5, 2024

For others, this rare day is aptly the day we honor rare disease communities. Observed annually on the last day of February since 2008, Rare Disease Day has grown into a global movement for raising awareness, promoting research, and advocating for improved access to rare disease treatments and support services.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

As one of the more recent fields to emerge in the clinical space, psychedelics have gained significant traction as a potential treatment for various neuropsychiatric diseases. Psychedelic Research at Worldwide Since 2017, Worldwide Clinical Trials have supported a myriad of sponsors leading the way in psychedelic research programs.

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Drug Target Review

JULY 4, 2023

In practice, some patients may be left managing a syndrome associated with the therapy along with the disease. 2 However, when dosed at the MTD, ADCs display improved efficacy over small molecules in oncology trials. 2 However, when dosed at the MTD, ADCs display improved efficacy over small molecules in oncology trials.

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PPD

JULY 29, 2024

AI also has the potential to incorporate real-world data (RWD) obtained from electronic health records (EHRs), medical claims or other data sources to inform the design and optimization strategy of clinical trials. A high-risk participant can be even excluded from the study based on the severity of the adverse event.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

million Americans were living with Alzheimer’s disease in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Alzheimer’s disease is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States and is a devastating disease that can rob people of their memories and lives. Eating a Healthy Diet.

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The Premier Consulting Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Clinical trials for ultra-rare diseases can be particularly challenging to mount due to small, geographically-dispersed patient populations. For such trials, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may allow the use of credible real-world data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE) in lieu of data collected in a Phase 3 trial.

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Vial

JUNE 24, 2024

Contract research organizations (CROs) and pharmaceutical companies can leverage these cutting-edge technologies to streamline clinical trials and introduce automation in drug discovery. As clinical trials grow in complexity, the volume of data being gathered and utilized for these studies is expanding.

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The Premier Consulting Blog

JUNE 18, 2023

One exciting application of these technologies is the use of in silico trials in the development of novel therapies for rare diseases. However, with rare diseases there may be no available treatments that could serve as SoC or active control in a clinical trial and assigning patients to placebo may be unethical.

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LifeSciVC

APRIL 24, 2024

Target validation : Do we believe the target(s) plays a central role in disease biology and that modulation will modify disease? There is nothing more exciting than digging into a new target and trying to develop a thesis on whether modulation may be impactful in disease. Is the functionality of mutations known?

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Advarra

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

But what does “working” really mean when efficacy means something subjective, like quality of life, reduced psychiatric events, or less symptoms? In most cases, the results you are really looking for and trying to prove in a trial can be complex. All key questions to consider and address before the therapy even leaves the lab.

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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Rare Disease Day on February 28th is a chance for rare disease communities to come together as one and join in conversation with stakeholders searching for treatments, raising money to support research, and changing the way healthcare and governments interact with patients. In my case, my daughter Iris has GM1 gangliosidosis.

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JULY 8, 2024

By: Lisle Kingery, PhD, Therapeutic Strategy Lead, Neuroscience With depression rates at an all-time high and limited new treatments available, depression clinical trials are more important than ever. Treatment Treatment can take various forms, including therapy, medication, a combination of both, or a clinical trial.

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Drug Target Review

AUGUST 6, 2024

A number of areas represent significant opportunities for Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs) beyond oncology, leveraging their ability to deliver therapeutic agents specifically to diseased cells or tissues while minimising off-target effects. Oncology also offers high returns and the opportunity to address severe, life-threatening conditions.

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Advarra

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In an era where clinical trials are increasingly global, it’s more imperative than ever to leverage international expertise. Data and safety monitoring boards (DSMBs), also known as data monitoring committees (DMCs), play a critical role in overseeing a clinical trial’s safety and efficacy.

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Vial

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Among others, NGS has led to the identification of disease-causing variants and novel drug targets and an improved understanding of complex biological events, e.g., the heterogeneity of tumors. 2022) recommend matching interventions to specific patient characteristics should be implemented early in the disease course.

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The Pharma Data

APRIL 28, 2022

Novo Nordisk today announced headline results from the ONWARDS 2 trial, a phase 3a, 26-week efficacy and safety treat-to-target trial investigating once-weekly insulin icodec vs insulin degludec in 526 people with type 2 diabetes switching from daily insulin. events per patient year exposed to once-weekly insulin icodec and 0.27

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Broad Institute

JULY 8, 2024

Described in Nature , these ‘brain chimeroids’ provide an approach for studying how genetic background can affect the outcome of neurotoxic exposures, disease-associated genetic variants, and potential therapeutic compounds. This could lead to more accurate preclinical trials and better predictions of clinical outcomes.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

There is a strong demand for innovative products that are essential in monitoring, preventing, and treating diseases or disabilities. Clinical trials are needed to determine whether a medical device can produce sufficient proof of its efficacy. This is where contract research organizations (CROs) come into play.

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FDA Law Blog: Drug Discovery

APRIL 23, 2023

This Draft Guidance focuses on the use of patient-level data from other clinical trials or from RWD sources. Similarly, the Draft Guidance cautions that if the anticipated effect size is modest, an externally controlled trial may not be appropriate due to the concerns regarding the impact of bias and other limitations.

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The Pharma Data

MAY 30, 2023

Pfizer Announces Positive Marstacimab Results from Pivotal Phase 3 Hemophilia A and B Trial (NYSE: PFE) today announced that the pivotal Phase 3 BASIS clinical trial ( NCT03938792 ) evaluating marstacimab has met its primary endpoints, having demonstrated statically significant and clinically meaningful effects.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 30, 2021

Dupixent plus TCS reduced overall disease severity by 70% and itch by 49%. A pivotal Phase 3 trial evaluating Dupixent ® (dupilumab) for the treatment of children aged 6 months to 5 years with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis, a chronic type 2 inflammatory disease, met its primary and all secondary endpoints.

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PPD

OCTOBER 17, 2024

There has also been an increase in government and regulatory support for CGT trials, in conjunction with an increase in investments for these products to get to market. They also need to have the medical competencies to manage adverse events often associated with these therapies.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

Results from the Phase III EMPEROR-Preserved trial were presented today at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2021 2 and published in The New England Journal of Medicine 1. 1 Trial participants were randomly assigned to empagliflozin 10 mg (n=2,997) or placebo (n=2,991) once daily.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

Trial met primary endpoint. The trial met the primary endpoint, with a cure of 600 mg of AZD7442 given by intramuscular (IM) injection reducing the threat of developing severe COVID-19 or death (from any cause) by 50 compared to placebo in rehabilitants who had been characteristic for seven days or lower.

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AUGUST 22, 2021

The trial accrued 25 cases of symptomatic COVID-19 at the primary analysis.There were no cases of severe COVID-19 or COVID-19-related deaths in those treated with AZD7442. The trial included 5,197 participants in a 2:1 randomisation AZD7442 to placebo. The trial was conducted in 87 sites in the US, UK, Spain, France and Belgium.

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Broad Institute

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Ladders to Cures (L2C) Accelerator By Maria Nemchuk November 25, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Ladders to Cures (L2C) Accelerator The Ladders to Cures (L2C) Accelerator aims to catalyze progress across the research ecosystem and accelerates advances leading to treatments and cures for patients with rare genetic diseases.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In the study, eliapixant demonstrated a positive benefit-risk profile, with the vast majority of adverse events considered mild or moderate. Discontinuation of the study due to adverse events occurred in 8% of patients treated with eliapixant. As a result, eliapixant may have the potential for safe and effective long-term use.

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