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FDA approves first in vivo gene insertion programme in infants

Drug Discovery World

iECURE has been given the go-ahead to begin US trials of its investigational gene editing-based therapy in newborn males with neonatal onset Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency. Secondary objectives are to assess the pharmacokinetics and efficacy of ECUR-506.

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Lilly plans donation of COVID-19 therapies to Direct Relief for use in low- and lower-middle-income countries | Eli Lilly and Company

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INDIANAPOLIS , May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) is donating COVID-19 therapies to Direct Relief, enabling the humanitarian organization to provide COVID-19 therapies at no cost to low- and lower-middle-income countries most heavily impacted by the pandemic.

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Improving quality control for CAR T cell therapies

Drug Discovery World

But decades of research led to improvements in cancer therapy, centred around the idea that one’s immune system could aid in treatment. Next, the advent of antibody treatments in 1997 created the first targeted cancer therapy 2. Since 2017, five CAR T cell therapies have been approved and have shown incredible success in the clinic.

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RYBREVANTTM (amivantamab-vmjw) in the Treatment of Patients with Advanced Non-Small.

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3] While MET inhibitors have recently received accelerated approval in this setting in some regions, the vast majority of patients eventually acquire resistance to these therapies, thus underscoring the need for new treatment options. [4] RYBREVANT TM (amivantamab-vmjw) received accelerated approval by the U.S.

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Where is the promise for plant-based medicines? Part 1: Cannabis  

Drug Discovery World

Even still, these approved drug products require a licensed healthcare provider’s prescription. With these exceptions, no other cannabis, cannabis-derived, or cannabidiol (CBD) products are FDA-approved and therefore on the market 1. At UC San Diego Health, there are currently eight cannabis clinical trials in progress 9.

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Retevmo® (selpercatinib) in Advanced RET Fusion-Positive Gastrointestinal and Other Cancers at 2021 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting

The Pharma Data

” In May 2020, Lilly’s first-in-class selective RET inhibitor Retevmo received Accelerated Approval from the U.S. Retevmo was approved based on the Phase 1/2 LIBRETTO-001 trial’s endpoints of ORR and DoR. FDA-approved oral prescription medicine, 120 mg or 160 mg dependent on weight (<50 kg or ?50

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Regeneron’s BCMAxCD3 Bispecific Antibody (REGN5458) Shows Deep and Durable Responses in Patients with Heavily-pretreated Multiple Myeloma in Phase 1

The Pharma Data

” In the trial, the 49 patients evaluated had a median of five prior lines of therapy (range: 2-17) with 100% being triple-refractory and 57% being penta-refractory; all patients were refractory to anti-CD38 therapy. With a median follow up of 2.6 Multiple myeloma is not curable despite treatment advances.