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World Mental Health Day 2023: Drug discovery breakthroughs

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Read more: Preclinical study proves antidepressant effects of drug Psychedelic-based drug options Later the same month, Cybin announced it had completed dosing in Cohort 5 of a Phase II trial evaluating CYB003, an investigational proprietary deuterated analog of psilocybin for the potential treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD).

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

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A Brief History of Targeted Cancer Drugs In 1978, FDA approved the first targeted cancer drug, tamoxifen. The FDA approved Herceptin , targeting a different receptor (HER2) in breast cancer cells, in 1998. Keytruda illustrates more recently approved cancer drugs.

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Insights into cellular therapies for cancer treatment

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Stem cell transplants primarily help the immune response through the “graft-versus-leukaemia effect,” and we have to manage the “graft versus host effect.” This involves the use of CAR-T cell products derived from donor T cells, hence the term “off the shelf,” making it easier to standardise treatments.

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Regeneron Announces Encouraging Initial Data from COVID-19 Antibody Cocktail Trial in Hospitalized Patients on Low-flow Oxygen

The Pharma Data

29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Phase 3 program in hospitalized patients to continue based on passing futility analysis on ability to reduce incidence of death or mechanical ventilation. As in earlier outpatient trial, immune status when patients entered the trial was a strong predictor of viral load and clinical outcomes.

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New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Positive Initial Regeneron Antibody Cocktail Results in Non-hospitalized Patients with COVID-19

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(NASDAQ: REGN ) today announced that the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has published initial clinical data from an ongoing seamless Phase 1/2/3 trial of the antibody cocktail casirivimab and imdevimab in non-hospitalized patients with COVID-19. “The investigational cocktail is now available to indicated high-risk U.S.

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Who are the AACR Scientific Achievement Award winners?

Drug Discovery World

Melissa M Hudson, MD – Joseph H Burchenal Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cancer Research Hudson is a faculty member, Director of the Cancer Survivorship Division, Associate Director, Population Sciences, and The Charles E Williams Endowed Chair of Oncology-Cancer Survivorship at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

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Biopharma Update on the Novel Coronavirus: October 27

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FDA Actions. FDA Approval: Last week the FDA approved Veklury (remdesivir) for the treatment of COVID-19 requiring hospitalization in adults and pediatric patients (12 years of age and older). Eli Lilly halted a separate study of its LY-COV555 antibody against COVID-19 in hospitalized patients.

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