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Q&A: How a partnership between physicians and researchers aims to make cancer drugs safer

Broad Institute

These patients had been given the revolutionary immunotherapy drugs known as immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), which take the brakes off the body’s immune system so that it can fight cancer. When they work, these drugs can greatly improve a patient’s prognosis, and people should not be afraid of them.

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U.S. FDA APPROVES TICOVAC™, PFIZER’S TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS (TBE) VACCINE

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved TICOVAC (tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) vaccine) for active immunization to prevent TBE in individuals 1 year of age and older. 1 TICOVAC is the only FDA-approved vaccine to help protect U.S. 1 TICOVAC is the only FDA-approved vaccine to help protect U.S.

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AI Tool CHIEF Paints a Landscape of a Cancer, Refining Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis

PLOS: DNA Science

Today for many patients, it is the beginning of taking a series of drugs that specifically target the errant cells by blocking the signals that fuel their runaway cell division, while sparing healthy cells. If deployed early, AI might identify drugs unlikely to work more effectively than can genetic and genomic testing.

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Harnessing the CD24/Siglec-10 pathway: immunotherapy innovation

Drug Target Review

Can you elaborate on the preclinical studies and data that led to development of drug candidates along the CD24/Siglec-10 pathway? We showed that ONC-781 can be used as a platform to develop multiple modalities, including bispecific T cell engager, antibody-drug conjugates and chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T).

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Biologics: Innovations, Challenges, and the Road Ahead

DrugBank

A Wave of Innovations The year 2024 has already proven to be significant for the field of biologics, witnessing a notable increase in FDA approvals. In the first quarter alone, the FDA approved 9 new biologics, a substantial rise from the 5 approvals during the same period in 2023.

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A research team searches for every gene that helps tumors evade immunotherapy

Broad Institute

As a first step, Manguso set his sights on treatments called PD-1 checkpoint inhibitors, which at the time had shown tremendous promise in clinical trials and would receive their first FDA approval in 2014. Along the way, TIDE is showing how careful, systematic science at scale can quickly home in on promising drug targets.

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U.S. FDA Approves PREVNAR 20™, Pfizer’s Pneumococcal 20-valent Conjugate Vaccine for Adults Ages 18 Years or Older

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved PREVNAR 20 (Pneumococcal 20-valent Conjugate Vaccine) for the prevention of invasive disease and pneumonia caused by the 20 Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) serotypes in the vaccine in adults ages 18 years and older. Following today’s FDA approval, the U.S.

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