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“Game-changing” personalised cancer vaccine enters UK clinical trials   

Drug Discovery World

A clinical trial of a personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma patients has been launched in the UK. This is a really finely honed tool”. “This is very much an individualised therapy and it’s far cleverer in some senses than a vaccine,” said Shaw. “It in the combination arm and 62.2%

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Treatment potential for immunotherapy-induced cytokine release syndrome  

Drug Discovery World

The results, together with the data from the recent LPS human challenge trial, further support the strategic expansion of the Phase II ready POLB 001 to treat and prevent cancer immunotherapy-induced CRS. Reductions were seen in all serum proinflammatory cytokines tested.

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LDL cholesterol vaccine ‘could be a game-changer’

Drug Discovery World

The first subjects have been dosed in a Phase I clinical trial of VXX-401, an investigational vaccine designed to lower low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, a known factor in heart disease. We’re excited to get this first-in-human trial of VXX-401 started.

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Drug repurposing in SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19: preventing the maladaptive immune response leading to critical disease requiring ICU care.

Plenge Gen

Repurposing of approved therapies is the fastest way to impact patients today, as these medicines have regulatory approval to enable investigator-initiated trials and have a manufacturing process to ensure drug supply. Pharmacologic intervention has the opportunity to impact disease progression in the SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 crisis.

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Immuno-oncology innovations redefining cancer treatment in 2024

Drug Target Review

Cell-based therapies, such as tumour-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy, have also drawn significant attention following promising results in a melanoma trial. Such approaches apply artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to predict mutations most likely to be good targets for the immune system.

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Insights into cellular therapies for cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

Stem cell transplants have saved patients’ lives time and time again, which led us to launch our own Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program. Stem cell transplants primarily help the immune response through the “graft-versus-leukaemia effect,” and we have to manage the “graft versus host effect.”

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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.