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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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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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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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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.

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Merck Provides Update on Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Once-Weekly Investigational Combination of MK-8507 and Islatravir for the Treatment of People Living with HIV-1

The Pharma Data

A review by the external Data Monitoring Committee (eDMC) determined that this effect was related to treatment with the combination of ISL08507; the greatest decreases were seen in the arms of the study receiving the highest doses of MK-8507 (200 mg and 400 mg). The company has notified investigators and paused development of MK-8507.

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Macrophage cell therapy: a new hope for chronic liver disease patients

Drug Target Review

What are the main challenges currently faced in the treatment of chronic liver diseases, and how does Resolution Therapeutics aim to address these challenges? Dr Brass has published over 85 peer reviewed articles and more than 200 abstracts, primarily in the field of hepatology, in both the areas of clinical and basic science research.

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