PLOS: DNA Science

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Can they deliver healing genes without triggering an overactive immune response? The details are disturbingly reminiscent of the famous case of Jesse Gelsinger , who died from a ferocious immune response to experimental gene therapy in September 1999. An immune response is two-tiered.

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Broad Institute

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Kerry Reynolds: The first immune checkpoint inhibitor was FDA-approved in 2011 to treat melanoma, with nearly a dozen more ICIs approved for various cancers since then. We can’t just empirically be pulling treatments — they need to be evidence-based from randomized clinical trials. How did you go about launching this effort?

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Drug Target Review

OCTOBER 17, 2024

While its involvement in the do-not-eat-me signal from cancer has inspired therapeutic development of this pathway for oncology, the function of the innate immune checkpoint we identified in 2009 1 extends to both innate and adaptive immune responses. Biomarkers are the holy grail of clinical trials. References Chen GY.,

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 17, 2021

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are starting to pick up. The NDA was built on data from the Phase III VICTORIA trial. We will continue to collaborate with the FDA during their review process and in parallel build our commercial readiness for a potential approval and commercial launch in the first quarter of 2021.”.

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Broad Institute

OCTOBER 11, 2023

By then, a few cancer immunotherapies had entered clinical trials and only a handful had been approved by the FDA. 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.

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The Pharma Data

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The Phase 3 RENOIR trial of RSVpreF is a global, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study that expects to enroll approximately 30,000 participants 60 years and older. NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Pfizer Inc. Detailed results from the study will be shared at a future medical conference. Source link: [link].

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved EYSUVIS for the short-term treatment of dry eye disease. . EYSUVIS is the first FDA-approved corticosteroid specifically for dry eye disease treatment. The FDA approved EYSUVIS based on the positive results from one Phase II and three Phase III trials. Roughly 16.4

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Agency IQ

JUNE 9, 2023

FDA finalizes new guidance on nonclinical assessment of potential immunotoxicity Late last week the FDA released a final guidance document containing recommendations on the nonclinical assessment of potential immunotoxicity for drugs and certain biologics.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Nasdaq: MBRX) (Moleculin or the Company), a clinical stage pharmaceutical company with a broad portfolio of drug candidates targeting highly resistant tumors and viruses, today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) to Annamycin for treatment of soft tissue sarcomas. .

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JANUARY 5, 2021

“These are all reasonable questions to consider and evaluate in clinical trials. However, at this time, suggesting changes to the FDA-authorized dosing or schedules of these vaccines is premature and not rooted solidly in the available evidence,” they added. ” Changing the dosage could also hamper the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

12 November 2020 — The CALAVI Phase II trials for Calquence (acalabrutinib) in patients hospitalised with respiratory symptoms of COVID-19 did not meet the primary efficacy endpoint. No new safety signal for Calquence was observed in the trials. No new safety signal for Calquence was observed in the trials.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 15, 2021

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. Following today’s FDA approval, the U.S. in 1-15 year olds and 98.7-100%

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Agency IQ

APRIL 12, 2024

Draft guidance on potency assays for CGT products garners extensive stakeholder input Late last year, the FDA published a draft update to its 2011 guidance on potency assays for cell and gene therapy products, unveiling a major shift in approach to the issue. This is a question that sponsors have been struggling with for quite some time.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody cocktail reduced medical visits for COVID-19 patients who had not been hospitalized by almost 50 percent, according to interim clinical trial results reported by researchers at the company. The FDA granted Regeneron’s antibody cocktail Emergency Use Authorization in November.

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The Premier Consulting Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

This blog will outline three characteristics of a successful nonclinical program to support entry into clinical trials for a cell or gene therapy product. Prior to clinical trials, the focus is typically on evaluating safety. Can you identify a safe AND efficacious clinical dose?

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 31, 2021

Adjuvanted S-Trimer COVID-19 vaccine candidates demonstrated favorable safety and tolerability profiles and strong neutralizing immune responses in a phase 1 trial. The phase 1 clinical trial was a randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study in 150 adult and elderly participants.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Action Follows Thorough Evaluation of Available Safety, Effectiveness, and Manufacturing Quality Information by FDA Career Scientists, Input from Independent Experts. ” The FDA has determined that the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine has met the statutory criteria for issuance of an EUA. SILVER SPRING, Md. , Hahn , M.D.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

As in earlier outpatient trial, immune status when patients entered the trial was a strong predictor of viral load and clinical outcomes. The analysis was prospectively designed to focus on patients who had not yet mounted their own immune response to SARS-CoV-2 (i.e., Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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Advarra

JANUARY 11, 2024

Adoptive T Cell therapies, therapeutic antibodies, and immunomodulatory proteins represent just some of the potentially beneficial treatment strategies for successful mRNA cancer trials. Immunomodulatory Proteins Immunomodulators are molecules influencing the pathways regulating the body’s immune system activities.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The clinical evidence from Regeneron’s outpatient trial suggests that monoclonal antibodies such as casirivimab and imdevimab have the greatest benefit when given early after diagnosis and in patients who have not yet mounted their own immune response or who have high viral load.

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JANUARY 31, 2021

Clover plans to initiate a global Phase 2/3 efficacy trial of its protein-based S-Trimer COVID-19 vaccine candidate adjuvanted with Dynavax’s CpG 1018 plus alum in the first half of 2021 with an interim analysis for vaccine efficacy potentially in the middle of 2021. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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JANUARY 17, 2021

The year is starting to pick up in terms of clinical trial announcements. Johnson & Johnson published interim Phase I/IIa data in the New England Journal of Medicine showing its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine candidate created an immune response that lasted at least 71 days. Here’s a look at last week’s news.

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Agency IQ

MARCH 7, 2024

flu vaccines Yesterday, FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) weighed in on strains for seasonal influenza vaccines for the Northern hemisphere 2024-2025 season. The meeting was straightforward, since both industry and FDA are ready ahead of schedule to remove one out-of-circulation influenza strain.

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APRIL 8, 2022

Now, new research from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University has revealed that this constant pattern of stretching and relaxing does even more – it generates immune responses against invading viruses. a Wyss Technology Development Fellow at the Institute. ” The results are published today in Nature Communications.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody cocktail reduced medical visits for COVID-19 patients who had not been hospitalized by almost 50 percent, according to interim clinical trial results reported by researchers at the company. 24, 2020 ). Safety outcomes were similar in the combined REGN-COV2 dose groups and the placebo group.”.

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APRIL 11, 2021

Opdivo- based therapies have now demonstrated positive results in Phase 3 trials in earlier stages of four different types of cancer: non-small cell lung cancer, esophageal/gastroesophageal junction cancer, bladder cancer and melanoma. Surgery was rarely canceled due to adverse events, only affecting two patients in each arm of the trial.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Company’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application for ADI-001, an allogeneic gamma delta (??) The active IND enables the Company to initiate the first-in-human clinical trial to assess safety and efficacy of ADI-001 in NHL patients. T cell therapy in NHL patients.

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New Drug Approvals

DECEMBER 16, 2023

3 Additionally, iptacopan has the benefit of targeting factor B, which only affect the alternative complement pathway, leaving the classic and lectin pathway untouched for the body to still mount adequate immune responses against pathogens. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 1] It is taken by mouth. [1] 5 December 2023.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

5, 2021 — Stem cells derived from a baby’s umbilical cord can help save the lives of the sickest COVID-19 patients, results from a small new clinical trial suggest. TUESDAY, Jan. Half were randomly chosen to receive two separate IV infusions of 100 million stem cells, while the others received a placebo IV.

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DrugBank

MAY 6, 2024

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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JUNE 18, 2021

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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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Two of the three planned late-stage efficacy trials for NVX-CoV2373 sponsored by Novavax are fully enrolled, and more than 20,000 participants have been dosed to-date. In alignment with Novavax’ commitment to transparency, Phase 3 clinical trial protocols are posted to the company’s website at Novavax.com/resources upon finalization.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel in regard to the COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna. If the vaccine receives the designation, the FDA will allow some people to receive the product as the agency continues to look at the data. intends to ship just shy of six million doses of Moderna’s vaccine once the FDA approves EUA.

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MARCH 3, 2022

The FDA decision is informed by the results of the Phase 2b proof-of-concept study of RSVpreF (NCT04032093), a global, double-blinded, placebo-controlled study that assessed the safety and immunogenicity of RSVpreF in healthy pregnant women ages 18 through 49 years old, who were vaccinated between 28- and 36-weeks gestation, and their infants.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation status to APX005M for the treatment of esophageal and gastroesophageal junction cancer and for the treatment of pancreatic cancer. APX005M is a novel, humanized monoclonal antibody that stimulates the anti-tumor immune response. SAN CARLOS, Calif. ,

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate will undergo increased scrutiny by regulators because of the promising but confusing interim analysis results from a late-stage trial that found a one-and-a- half-dose regimen — given by mistake — was significantly more effective than a full double dose.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

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). CoV2373 on Friday during the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) meeting. Days after the U.S.

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