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News and Trends 22 Nov 2022

Achilles Therapeutics receives US patent for immunotherapies

A U.S. patent has been granted to Achilles Therapeutics plc for the treatment of patients with an immunotherapy, including vaccine, antibody and autologous T cell therapy approaches, targeting clonal neoantigens identified using the Achilles Clonality Engine (ACE). ACE is a proprietary method for determining clonality of patient-specific mutations that drives the PELEUS bioinformatics platform. Clonal […]

November 22, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 22 Nov 2022

CatalYm raises €50M to boost solid tumors trial

CatalYm has announced the close of a €50 million ($49 million) series C financing round. The oversubscribed round was co-led by new investors, Brandon Capital and Jeito Capital with participation from existing investors Forbion, Novartis Venture Fund, Vesalius Biocapital III, Bayern Kapital, BioGeneration Ventures and Coparion. The financing will support the clinical development of its […]

November 22, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 21 Nov 2022

FogPharma raises $178M to target cancer

U.S biotech company FogPharma has announced a $178 million series D financing. The financing round includes new investors ARCH Venture Partners, Milky Way Investments and Fidelity Management & Research Company and existing investors VenBio Partners, Deerfield Management, GV, Cormorant Asset Management, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Invus, Farallon Capital Management, […]

November 21, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 21 Nov 2022

Legend Biotech small cell lung cancer drug gets FDA ok for clinical development

Legend Biotech Corporation has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Legend Biotech’s investigational new drug (IND) application to proceed with the clinical development of LB2102, an investigational, autologous chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy for the treatment of adult patients with extensive stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC). LB2102 is […]

November 21, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 21 Nov 2022

FMRP – the protein behind immunotherapy resistance

Immunotherapy is a cutting-edge approach to treating cancer by turning the patient’s own immune system against their tumor. Despite success rates, immunotherapy has time and again met with a stubborn obstacle: tumor cells often evade the “radar” of immune cells seeking to destroy them. This in turn leads to treatment resistance, which in many cases […]

November 21, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 18 Nov 2022

MIF invests in KAHR to explore lead immunotherapy drug for multiple myeloma

KAHR Medical, a clinical stage biotech company that is developing a treatment for solid tumors and blood cancers has received investment from the Myeloma Investment Fund (MIF). MIF has made the investment to explore the potential of DSP107, KAHR’s leading immunotherapy drug candidate for the treatment of multiple myeloma. “We are thrilled to partner with […]

November 18, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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News and Trends 18 Nov 2022

NW Bio reports positive top-line results from phase 3 glioblastoma trial

Northwest Biotherapeutics, which is developing DCVax personalized immune therapies for solid tumor cancers, yesterday (November 17) reported that both median and long tail survival were increased in both newly diagnosed and recurrent glioblastoma. The brain tumor cancer patients were treated with DCVax-L and in its phase 3 clinical trial met both the primary and secondary […]

November 18, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 18 Nov 2022

New discovery gives hope in fight against metastatic cancer

Cancer that splits and develops in new organs around the body becomes significantly more difficult to fight. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have shown that these metastatic cancers, which spread from the original, adapt their metabolism to the tissue in which they grow. The discovery represents a breakthrough for the understanding of metastatic […]

November 18, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 18 Nov 2022

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu recommended for approval

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan) has been recommended for approval in the European Union (EU) for patients previously treated HER-2 positive advanced gastric cancer. The drug is also used for gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma who have received a prior trastuzumab-based regimen. Enhertu is a specifically engineered HER2-directed antibody drug conjugate (ADC) being jointly developed and commercialized by AstraZeneca […]

November 18, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 17 Nov 2022

Astellas meets primary endpoint in gastric cancer study

Astellas Pharma Inc. has announced positive topline results from its phase 3 SPOTLIGHT clinical trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of zolbetuximab in combination with mFOLFOX6 (a combination regimen that includes oxaliplatin, leucovorin and fluorouracil). Zolbetuximab is an investigational first-in-class monoclonal antibody targeting Claudin 18.2 (CLDN18.2), for the first-line treatment of patients with CLDN18.2-positive, HER2-negative, […]

November 17, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 16 Nov 2022

Immutep announces efti clinical results for non-small cell lung cancer

Immutep Limited has revealed what it says are compelling new clinical data from its TACTI-002 all-comer PD-L1 phase II trial evaluating Immutep’s lead product candidate, eftilagimod alpha in combination with MSD’s (Merck and Co., Inc., Rahway, N.J., USA) anti-PD-1 therapy KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab) in 114 patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The new data was […]

November 16, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 15 Nov 2022

Jnana Therapeutics raises $107M for PKU program and announces new Roche partnership

Jnana Therapeutics has entered into a second collaboration and license agreement with Roche for the discovery of small molecule drugs for the treatment of cancer, immune-mediated and neurological diseases. The collaboration covers multiple targets from a diverse range of target classes to address diseases with high unmet need. The company also announced the close of […]

November 15, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Achilles Therapeutics receives US patent for immunotherapies

CatalYm raises €50M to boost solid tumors trial

FogPharma raises $178M to target cancer

Legend Biotech small cell lung cancer drug gets FDA ok for clinical development

FMRP – the protein behind immunotherapy resistance

MIF invests in KAHR to explore lead immunotherapy drug for multiple myeloma

NW Bio reports positive top-line results from phase 3 glioblastoma trial

New discovery gives hope in fight against metastatic cancer

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu recommended for approval

Astellas meets primary endpoint in gastric cancer study

Immutep announces efti clinical results for non-small cell lung cancer

Jnana Therapeutics raises $107M for PKU program and announces new Roche partnership

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