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Stanford University’s Innovative Medicines Accelerator and Intonation Research Laboratories form a collaboration to fight cancerous neuroendocrine tumors

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Stanford University’s Innovative Medicines Accelerator (IMA) and Intonation Research Laboratories (Intonation) have formed a collaboration to develop treatments that target cancerous neuroendocrine tumors, or tumors that form from hormone-releasing cells.

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FDA Approves Updated Indication for Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) for Treatment.

The Pharma Data

In addition, as part of the label update, this indication has been revised to be for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC) who are not eligible for any platinum-containing chemotherapy.

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Speeding COVID-19 Drug Discovery with Quantum Dots

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Discovery

In work published in the journal ACS Nano , a team that included Kirill Gorshkov, NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), Rockville, MD, along with Eunkeu Oh and Mason Wolak, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, D.C.) That’s not science fiction.

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Lilly’s bebtelovimab receives Emergency Use Authorization for the treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19

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Lilly’s chief scientific and medical officer, and president of Lilly Research Laboratories. “With the emergence of variants such as Omicron, treatment options remain limited. ” The data supporting this EUA are primarily based on analyses from the Phase 2 BLAZE-4 trial (NCT04634409), treatment arms 9-14.

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bamlanivimab and etesevimab together for treatment of COVID-19 in the U.S.

The Pharma Data

for the treatment of COVID-19 – as planned with the FDA – follows the modification of contracts with the U.S. Lilly’s chief scientific officer and president of Lilly Research Laboratories. variant, present in these other countries and remain an important treatment option.

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European Commission Approves Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) Plus Chemotherapy as Treatment for Certain Patients With Locally Recurrent Unresectable or Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC)

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KEYTRUDA Is Now Approved in Combination With Chemotherapy as First-Line Treatment for Patients With Locally Recurrent Unresectable or Metastatic TNBC Whose Tumors Express PD-L1 (CPS ?10) This blessing is an important corner for applicable cases with metastatic TNBC who are in need of new treatment options,” saidDr.

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Merck and Ridgeback Announce Initiation of a Rolling Review by the European Medicines Agency for Molnupiravir, an Investigational Oral Antiviral Medicine, for the Treatment of COVID-19 in Adults

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If Granted Marketing Authorization by the European Commission, Molnupiravir Could Be the First Oral Antiviral Medicine for the Treatment of COVID-19 in the European Union. Li, administrative vice chairman and chairman, Merck Research Laboratories. “ Li, administrative vice chairman and chairman, Merck Research Laboratories. “