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Renaissance Pharma licenses Hu14.18 for neuroblastoma

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Renaissance Pharma has announced its first development programme focused on Hu14.18, a humanised anti-GD2 monoclonal antibody (mAb), licensed from St Jude Children’s Research Hospital for the treatment of newly diagnosed high-risk neuroblastoma. A novel Phase II trial incorporating Hu14.18 and three-year event-free (EFS) of 73.7%.

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Successful clinical trial for re-engineered Covid vaccine 

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Project leader, Associate Professor Keith Chappell, said the preliminary clinical trial results were an ‘exciting reward’ for the team’s continued dedication and the community’s widespread support for the project. “We The Clamp2 trial group showed a 2.5-fold fold boost in neutralising ‘titres’ and it was 2.1 in the Novavax group.

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Pfizer launches Phase III trial for Lyme disease vaccine  

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Pfizer has launched a Phase III clinical trial of a vaccine to protect people against Lyme disease, in collaboration with pharmaceutical company Valneva. . The trial will enrol up to 6,000 participants aged five years and older and will be conducted across 50 sites where Lyme disease is highly endemic. ” . “We

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Clinical trial will test novel inhaled TB vaccine

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The Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford is conducting the study using Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), the current licensed vaccine against TB. The BCG vaccine works well against disease in childhood, but it is not good enough at protecting against disease in adulthood, which is when the majority of TB deaths occur.

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FDA Orphan Drug Designation awarded to rare disease therapies

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This second ODD allows research and development of a therapy for another form of the disease, Isolated Hypomyelination. Dan Williams, CEO at SynaptixBio, said; “This ODD is a huge boost to our efforts in tackling these devastating, life-limiting rare diseases.

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Which diseases are poised to benefit from therapeutic antibody development

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DDW’s Megan Thomas looks at how different diseases will benefit from the success of therapeutic antibodies. Earlier in 2023, a mAb to prevent Covid-19 in vulnerable patients, AZD3152, entered clinical trials less than 12 months after its discovery. The work is continuous for this disease target.

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Antibody treatment for geographic atrophy enters clinical trials

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Boehringer Ingelheim and CDR-Life entered a licensing agreement in May 2020 and announced the selection of an antibody fragment-based therapeutic candidate in September 2021. GA is an irreversible retinal disease that occurs in people with late-stage dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD).