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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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Q&A: How a partnership between physicians and researchers aims to make cancer drugs safer

Broad Institute

For some patients, this treatment results in striking and long-lasting remission — but for a subset, it triggers complications ranging from mild rash to potentially deadly brain and heart inflammation. With immunotherapy, it awakens your immune system in a way that’s like a fire in a bush — it doesn’t stop.

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

The Pharma Data

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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Vitamin A and its role in psychiatric and other disorders

Drug Target Review

Our polygenic score will enable the application of these treatments to people that specifically need it through precision medicine by identifying the individual at high genetic risk of low circulating levels of the vitamin. The answer is no because there are both genetic and dietary (environmental) causes for low vitamin A.