Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Breast cancer retained its position as the most-studied disease area in clinical trials in 2022, according to a recent report by analytics company Phesi. Results from the PROVENT Phase III trial showed a significant reduction in the risk of developing symptomatic Covid-19 and that the protection continued for at least six months.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Receiving a genetic diagnosis is important as it allows patients to receive access to family planning, specialised IVF, and drugs trials. It can also permit targeted screening of known disease complications and access to drug studies.

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Advarra

JUNE 27, 2023

Clinical trials are studies involving human volunteers to research ways to prevent, detect, and treat various medical conditions. The goal is to identify safer, more effective methods of treating illnesses using new drugs or new combinations of existing drugs.

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The Open Targets Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

[ Deanne Taylor , lead Principal Investigator of MTP] In the US, formal clinical trials are required to establish the safety and utility of those treatments in pediatric cancers. Despite the evidence that pediatric cancers could benefit from the same drugs used to treat adult cancers, drug trials are much rarer in children than adults. To

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Codon

JANUARY 21, 2024

Human challenge trials were an indispensable part of the development of the malaria vaccine, R21/Matrix-M, endorsed by the World Health Organization last October. But for all of their benefits, human challenge trials have their drawbacks. Jake himself has participated in both Zika and Shigella challenge trials.

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PPD

MARCH 28, 2024

The biotech industry has long been at the forefront of innovation, revolutionizing health care and delivering breakthrough therapies to patients around the world. One of the fundamental pillars of this efficiency is a well-thought-out trial design.

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Advarra

AUGUST 16, 2022

Orphan drugs have historically faced a number of barriers, such as limited research and development (R&D) investment due to an expected lack of profitability as well as challenges in clinical trial design and recruitment. Before 1983, only 38 orphan drugs had received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Although a few are out there, phosphorylated tau (P-tau) may enable even earlier and more accurate detection, according to Eli Lilly-associated researchers speaking at the Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease (CTAD) virtual conference in early November. This is encouraging as a pharmacodynamic biomarker in larger trials,” Dage said.

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Agency IQ

MARCH 29, 2024

Title Type Deadline Guideline on clinical investigation of medicinal products in the treatment of depression [EMA] Scientific guideline 3/31/2024 Concept paper on the establishment of a Guideline on the development and manufacture of human medicinal products specifically designed for phage therapy [EMA] Concept paper 3/31/2024 Pharmeuropa 36.1

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 17, 2024

Brett Swansiger, Chief Commercial Officer at ANGLE discusses the importance of liquid biopsies in precision medicine trials for cancer. Furthermore, oncology clinical trials are frequently challenged by low enrolment rates, failure to achieve primary endpoints, study design complexity and limited funding 5.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Jarret Glasscock , PhD, CEO of Cofactor Genomics explains how diagnostics are emerging as the key to ensuring the right patients get matched to the right therapy, at the right time. . In the cancer space alone over the last five years, clinical trials have increased 500% for new drugs and new drug combinations.

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Agency IQ

MAY 3, 2024

Two consultations on clinical trial considerations, one on advanced therapies and the other addressing non-inferiority and equivalence comparisons, are closing at the end of May. The pharma reform package remains in E.U. leaders’ eyesight as the Parliament winds down ahead of its June elections.

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Drug Target Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

We are the only company in the world including this population in any Alzheimer’s drug trial, and we are very proud of this! Our investigational active immunisation therapies could potentially delay or perhaps even prevent the onset of clinical dementia symptoms. COVID-19 has shown the revolutionary impact of vaccines.

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Codon

MARCH 14, 2023

For every 5,000 drug compounds tested in mice, five move into human studies. The ALS Therapy Development Institute, located just ten minutes from my home in Cambridge, once tested more than 100 potential drugs to slow ALS progression in mice, all of which had been reported to be helpful in other studies.

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