Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 10, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy designation for VAX-24, Vaxcyte’s 24-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for the prevention of invasive pneumococcal disease. . The post Breakthrough Therapy designation for pneumococcal disease vaccine appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

AELIX Therapeutics has announced positive results from its randomised, placebo-controlled Phase IIa therapeutic HIV vaccine and immune modulator combination clinical trial. The trial also evaluated the efficacy of HTI vaccines in combination with VES to avoid, delay or contain viral rebound compared to a placebo group.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 24, 2023

dendritic cells, monocytes) triggers a broad immune response that includes significant increases in cytotoxic CD8 plus T cells armed with chemo-induced tumour antigens to target cancer. This synergy was demonstrated by the AIPAC Phase IIb trial’s encouraging efficacy and safety, including a over 2.9-month

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 16, 2021

Better activation of innate and adaptive immune responses was achieved with CV2CoV, resulting in faster response onset, higher titers of antibodies, and stronger memory B and T cell activation as compared to the first-generation candidate, CVnCoV. “In Induction of innate immunity was investigated via specific cytokine markers.

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PLOS: DNA Science

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In the final chapter of my 2012 book The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It , I predicted that the technology would soon expand well beyond the rare disease world. Gene therapy clearly hasn’t had a major impact on health care, offering extremely expensive treatments for a few individuals with rare diseases.

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Plenge Gen

APRIL 7, 2020

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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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 12, 2024

The top stories: Genetically engineered dendritic cells enhance lung cancer therapy A study by researchers at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center in the US suggests that injecting engineered dendritic cells directly into cancerous lung tumours can help promote a stronger immune response.

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Drug Discovery World

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

DDW Editor Reece Armstrong looks at the cell and gene therapy landscape, examining the challenges facing developers and the trends we can expect to see throughout the year. . There’s no doubt that cell and gene therapies present some of the most exciting opportunities for emerging drugs. billion, compared to $19.9 Cancer is king .

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The Premier Consulting Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

Development of cell and gene therapies is growing rapidly, given the major advances in genomic technologies and increasing scientific understanding of genetic regulation and immunology. This blog will outline three characteristics of a successful nonclinical program to support entry into clinical trials for a cell or gene therapy product.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 18, 2024

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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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 3, 2023

This year, the team will launch a combined Phase I and IIa trial of R805/CX-011 for the treatment of osteoarthritis in patients in collaboration with the start-up Carthronix. They think the drug has the potential to delay or even reduce the need for joint replacement surgery, the only existing FDA-approved therapy for osteoarthritis.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 27, 2023

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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Advarra

JANUARY 11, 2024

The applications of mRNA-based therapies in cancer research represent one of the next groundbreaking steps toward improved cancer treatments. Adoptive T Cell therapies, therapeutic antibodies, and immunomodulatory proteins represent just some of the potentially beneficial treatment strategies for successful mRNA cancer trials.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 26, 2023

A Cancer Research UK-funded clinical trial has shown, for the first time, that a new class of antibody could benefit cancer patients whose existing treatments have stopped working. Compared to IgG, IgE offers potential for enhanced immune system targeting of and potency against tumours, providing a more powerful weapon against cancer cells.

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The investment allows the company to focus on discovering and developing novel small molecule therapies targeting RNA modifying enzymes (RMEs) for oncology and other diseases. . STC-15 triggers both direct cytotoxic and immune response-based efficacy mechanisms in solid tumour and leukaemia models.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 16, 2023

The clinical benefit was observed regardless of the tumour mutational burden (TMB) status, according to results from the Phase IIb KEYNOTE-942 clinical trial presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2023, held April 14-19. In addition to encoding the target antigens, mRNA vaccines also provide adjuvant properties that amplify the immune response.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 27, 2023

HB-400, a novel arenaviral therapeutic vaccine developed by HOOKIPA Pharma and Gilead Sciences, has been shown to generate robust T cell responses specific to hepatitis B virus with high antibody levels in a preclinical setting. A Phase I clinical trial to evaluate the safety and tolerability of HB‑400 in humans is ongoing.

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Drug Target Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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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Drug Target Review

MARCH 1, 2024

How significant are the results in terms of advancing TCR-T cell therapy and AMP immunotherapy for the treatment of solid tumours? We have already applied this approach to several important tumour targets where enhancements in TCR-T therapy may lead to important gains in clinical benefit, including mutated KRAS, NY-ESO, and HPV E7 antigens.

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Drug Target Review

JANUARY 23, 2024

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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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 16, 2023

The addition of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) to gemcitabine and cisplatin improved overall survival in patients with untreated metastatic or unresectable biliary tract cancer, according to results from the Phase III KEYNOTE-966 clinical trial. The approval was based on results from the TOPAZ-1 clinical trial. months, as compared with 10.9

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 25, 2023

These include two antibodies for modulating immune responses in cancer and autoimmunity, which are being advanced through pharmaceutical partnerships with Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline. Looking forward Triebel says that present I-O therapies is just the beginning of the story.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 31, 2023

This includes the advancement of the company’s lead asset, GRWD5769, into a Phase I/II clinical trial in the first half of 2023. Grey Wolf Therapeutics’ strategy is centred on generating entirely novel immune responses against tumours, thereby overcoming key resistance mechanisms to current immuno-oncology therapy such as poor tumour recognition (..)

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 23, 2024

The virus is engineered to enter the cancer cells and replicate rapidly, which breaks the cells open and exposes them to the immune system, effectively destroying them. The research team has already used the virus in a small Phase I trial where responses to the treatment were seen in 11 out of 12 children.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 11, 2024

Together with my colleagues, I am tackling what is one of the most pressing problems in biotech, the discovery of targets to serve as the basis for new therapies for cancer and infectious diseases. By understanding what triggers the adaptive immune response in “elite responders” we have identified new targets and therapeutic antibodies.

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Alta Sciences

JANUARY 11, 2024

It is estimated that there are over 6,000 monogenic diseases, affecting over 350 million people worldwide; for these diseases, cell and gene therapy may provide hope for a cure. However, there are significant challenges associated with the successful development of these complex, leading-edge therapies. what is the altascientist?

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Vial

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the decades since its identification in 1989, advances in clinical research for new Hepatitis C therapies and the introduction of direct-acting antiviral agents (DAAs) have led to viral eradication in more than 98% of patients, resulting in HCV crossing from manageable to being the first curable , chronic viral infection. Zhao et al.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This is part of why patients in trials and the clinic can experience severe toxicity and adverse events, reject their therapy with an immune response, or completely fail to respond to treatment. These technologies in no way recapitulate the proteome that antibodies are tested against within a single human in nature.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

mRNA-4157/V940 is currently being evaluated in combination with KEYTRUDA, Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, as adjuvant treatment for patients with high-risk melanoma in a Phase II clinical trial being conducted by Moderna. . KEYNOTE-942 is an ongoing randomised, open-label Phase II trial that enrolled 157 patients with high-risk melanoma.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 5, 2023

Through such therapies, slowly, hesitatingly, some people are using the word ‘cure’ with a few individual cancer patients, which is something the field has avoided for decades. These types of therapies are often more effective and have fewer side effects. We’re starting to see that this goal is realisable.

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SugarCone Biotech

JUNE 10, 2024

Targeting 4-1BB remained of interest to the immuno-oncology field as cell culture experiments and tumor models in mice suggested that robust anti-tumor immune responses could be triggered by anti-4-1BB antibody therapies. This is the T cell type most closely associated with anti-tumor immune responses.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 26, 2022

As a result, these have enormous potential to be developed into highly effective therapies that are safe and well-tolerated by patients. Both therapies also had excellent safety profiles. RA: Could this type of treatment be used alongside other oncology therapies such a cell & gene therapies?

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The Pharma Data

APRIL 15, 2022

NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) today announced positive results from a Phase 2/3 clinical trial evaluating the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of a 10-µg booster (third) dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in healthy children 5 through 11 years of age. About the Phase 1/2/3 Trial in Children. Pfizer Inc.

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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

JUNE 21, 2024

Worldwide Clinical Trials attends each year to hear from the research community, connect with our sponsors and sites, and explore potential partnerships to drive forward novel treatments. Previously, T-cell therapies had been primarily used on liquid tumors, as the T-cells were unable to penetrate the solid tumor environment.

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Drug Target Review

JANUARY 15, 2024

Onchilles Pharma has translated this breakthrough research into a proprietary set of therapeutics and plans to start first-in-human clinical trials for its first programme, N17350, in 2024 in skin cancers, head and neck cancer, and triple-negative breast cancer. The concept of the ‘abscopal effect’ in the 4T1 tumour model is intriguing.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 9, 2023

Fewer than 5% of oncology drugs that enter clinical trials in the US receive US FDA approval. This abysmal success rate significantly trails the overall approval rate for compounds entering human trials (about 10% of which reach commercialisation).

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Using IgE to treat cancer In the UK, a Cancer Research UK-funded clinical trial has shown, for the first time, that a new class of antibody could benefit cancer patients whose existing treatments have stopped working. “Cancer shredding could hold potential not only for glioblastoma, but possibly for other hypermutated tumours.”

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