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Immuno-oncology innovations redefining cancer treatment in 2024

Drug Target Review

What innovative approaches and technologies are anticipated to reshape immuno-oncology treatments in 2024? Immuno-oncology, notably through checkpoint inhibitors, has significantly reshaped cancer treatment over the past decade.

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Insights into cellular therapies for cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

This is a time when several promising treatments – including mRNA vaccines, BiTE therapies and CAR-T cell therapy, are essentially in competition with each other – they all have a common goal of treating the same disease, but they are approaching the objective from different angles.

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Keeping tabs on Covid-19: FDA approves Veklury as first treatment for Covid-19 and Takeda and Moderna bring 50 million vaccines to Japan

The Pharma Data

More recently, the FDA announced regulatory approval for the first treatment for Covid-19. FDA approves first treatment for Covid-19. On October 22, the FDA approved the antiviral drug Veklury for use in adult and pediatric patients for the treatment of Covid-19 requiring hospitalization.

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Deliberate Dysentery

Codon

Today, refined versions of these human challenge studies have become standard practice in testing vaccines for vector-borne diseases (e.g., yellow fever, malaria, and dengue), evaluating new drugs or treatments, and studying pathogenesis, the process by which a disease develops.

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Battling antibiotic resistance in the lab and the clinic

Broad Institute

In others, an infection can cause the immune system to spin out of control, leading to sepsis — organ dysfunction that lacks effective treatments and is often fatal. For his medical residency, he moved to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was enthralled with seeing patients, especially the ones with perplexing infections.

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Bristol Myers Squibb Announces Topline Results Showing Treatment with Orencia (abatacept) Improved Survival in People Hospitalized with COVID-19

The Pharma Data

Orencia was one of two immune modulators that improved survival for people hospitalized with COVID-19. Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) today announced topline results from the Phase 3 Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV-1) Immune Modulators clinical trial, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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FDA Approves First COVID-19 Treatment for Young Children

The Pharma Data

This action makes Veklury the first approved COVID-19 treatment for children less than 12 years of age. As COVID-19 can cause severe illness in children, some of whom do not currently have a vaccination option, there continues to be a need for safe and effective COVID-19 treatment options for this population,” said Patrizia Cavazzoni, M.D.,