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Drug repurposing in SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19: preventing the maladaptive immune response leading to critical disease requiring ICU care.

Plenge Gen

Pharmacologic intervention has the opportunity to impact disease progression in the SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 crisis. Repurposing of approved therapies is the fastest way to impact patients today, as these medicines have regulatory approval to enable investigator-initiated trials and have a manufacturing process to ensure drug supply.

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Treatment potential for immunotherapy-induced cytokine release syndrome  

Drug Discovery World

Poolbeg Pharma, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialisation of medicines targeting diseases with a high unmet medical need, has announced promising in vivo results for POLB 001 in addressing cancer immunotherapy-induced cytokine release syndrome (CRS). million cases of cancer by 2030 1,2.

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Top five breakthroughs in advancing breast cancer therapies

Drug Discovery World

While advances in treatment over the last few years have resulted in good overall survival rates for patients with non-metastatic disease (90% five-year survival rate in the US 1 ), outcomes are still poor in certain cancers that do not respond to standard therapies. 3D bioprinted breast cancer tumours.

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LDL cholesterol vaccine ‘could be a game-changer’

Drug Discovery World

The first subjects have been dosed in a Phase I clinical trial of VXX-401, an investigational vaccine designed to lower low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, a known factor in heart disease. Despite the availability of statins and the approval of PCSK9-targeting medicines, there is still a need for new therapies.

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Immuno-oncology innovations redefining cancer treatment in 2024

Drug Target Review

In April 2023, we saw the first randomised data applying an individualised vaccine in combination with checkpoint inhibition for resectable melanoma, demonstrating benefit in terms of time to disease recurrence. Espen integrates clinical and research expertise as Director of Medical Affairs.

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‘Angry Blood’ haemodialysis study recruits its 300th patient 

Drug Discovery World

Invizius, a biotechnology company developing second generation therapies for a range of complement-driven autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, has recruited its 300 th patient to the ‘Angry Blood’ study. During HD, blood interacts with the biomaterials of the HD circuit.

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Insights into cellular therapies for cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

Stem cell transplants have saved patients’ lives time and time again, which led us to launch our own Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program. Stem cell transplants primarily help the immune response through the “graft-versus-leukaemia effect,” and we have to manage the “graft versus host effect.”