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News and Trends 1 Dec 2022

FDA clears SparingVision’s investigational new drug application to treat ocular diseases

SparingVision today announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its Investigational New Drug application (IND) for SPVN06. The genomic medicine company has had its developing vision-saving treatments for ocular diseases, lead gene independent therapy for the treatment of retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a form of rod-cone dystrophy (RCD) and the most prevalent […]

December 1, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 1 Dec 2022

Trial for HPV16 positive oropharyngeal cancer completes enrolment for phase 2

Netherlands-based ISA Pharmaceuticals B.V., has announced that it has completed enrolment in its phase 2 clinical trial. Named OpcemISA. The trial aims to checkpoint inhibitor therapy in patients with metastatic/advanced 1st and 2nd line HPV16 positive oropharyngeal cancer (OPC). The clinical stage biotech company is developing immunotherapies to treat cancers and infectious diseases, and has […]

December 1, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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FDA grants Sensorion Orphan Drug Designation for hearing loss drug

Sensorion a clinical-stage biotechnology company has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation (ODD) to OTOF-GT, its lead gene therapy program for hearing loss. The drug is intended for the treatment of otoferlin gene mediated hearing loss. Sensorion is on track to file a clinical trial application (CTA) […]

November 30, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 30 Nov 2022

‘Best hope yet’ as results from Alzheimer’s drug trial reveal huge step forward

A huge step forward in dementia research has been hailed a truly historic moment by researchers working to find a cure for people with Alzheimer’s Disease. This is the first time a drug being trialed, lecanemab, has shown a reduction in the disease in the brain while slowing memory decline. Dr Susan Kohlhaas, director of […]

November 30, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 28 Nov 2022

Molecure to conduct cancer treatment trial in Poland

Molecure S.A. says the President of the Polish Office for Registration of Medicinal Products, Medical Devices and Biocidal Products has given the company permission to conduct the first clinical trial of OATD-02. The planned phase I trial will be an open-label, multi-center, dose escalation study to evaluate safety, tolerability, anti-cancer activity and to establish the […]

November 28, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Nov 2022

Lyvgen and Bristol Myers Squibb commitment to transform cancer care

Lyvgen Biopharma announced yesterday that it has started a phase 2 trial of LVGN7409 plus docetaxel or, in collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb, nivolumab in patients with advanced/metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). “Lyvgen clinical collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb underscores our commitment to exploring combination regimens from our portfolio with complementary mechanisms of action […]

November 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 28 Nov 2022

STORM Therapeutics doses first patient with drug targeting solid tumors

STORM Therapeutics Ltd, announced today that the first patient in a phase 1 study had been dosed with a drug targeting solid tumors. The biotech company works on discovering and developing new small molecule therapies targeting RNA modifying enzymes (RMEs) for oncology and other diseases. The patient was dosed with STC-15, STORM’s clinical candidate. It […]

November 28, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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Interview 23 Nov 2022

What recent mixed clinical results can teach about Alzheimer’s disease

2022 has provided mixed fortunes for companies aiming to slow Alzheimer’s disease. Ulrich Dauer, CEO of the German biotech Vivoryon, explains the lessons these events provide. The quest for a treatment to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease has endured decades of disappointments. The most common treatment strategy — clearing up harmful deposits, or “plaques,” […]

November 23, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 23 Nov 2022

Khondrion’s mitochondrial diseases treatment producing positive results

Clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, Khondrion, discovering and developing therapies targeting primary mitochondrial diseases announced yesterday (November 22) its wholly-owned lead asset sonlicromanol for MELAS spectrum disorder has demonstrated positive treatment results. MELAS spectrum disorder is a rare progressive mitochondrial disease and sonlicromanol will move into a phase 3 registrational study supported by favorable benefit-risk profile. The […]

November 23, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 23 Nov 2022

UCB publishes Lennox-Gastaut syndrome study data

UCB has announced the publication of long-term open-label extension (OLE) study results of FINTEPLA (fenfluramine) CIV in the journal Epilepsia. Long-term efficacy and safety findings showed that FINTEPLA, when added to a patient’s current anti-epileptic treatment regimen for seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), was effective in reducing the frequency of multiple seizure types and […]

November 23, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 23 Nov 2022

Trial to start for new heart attack drug

A potential new drug to improve the long-term outcomes for heart attack patients will be trialed in the U.K. With the signing of a partnership between the University of Birmingham and Acticor Biotech, a new clinical trial called LIBERATE will take place in two acute care hospitals in the U.K.: the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham […]

November 23, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 23 Nov 2022

First patients dosed with Infex Therapeutics’ RESP-X for chronic respiratory disease

A new anti-virulence therapy, RESP-X, treating Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa) infections in non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis (NCFB) patients has been given to the first subjects in a trial run by Infex Therapeutics. Infex Therapeutics is an anti-infectives company and announced the first subjects were dosed in the phase 1 study in healthy volunteers evaluating the company’s lead […]

November 23, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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FDA clears SparingVision’s investigational new drug application to treat ocular diseases

Trial for HPV16 positive oropharyngeal cancer completes enrolment for phase 2

FDA grants Sensorion Orphan Drug Designation for hearing loss drug

‘Best hope yet’ as results from Alzheimer’s drug trial reveal huge step forward

Molecure to conduct cancer treatment trial in Poland

Lyvgen and Bristol Myers Squibb commitment to transform cancer care

STORM Therapeutics doses first patient with drug targeting solid tumors

What recent mixed clinical results can teach about Alzheimer’s disease

Khondrion’s mitochondrial diseases treatment producing positive results

UCB publishes Lennox-Gastaut syndrome study data

Trial to start for new heart attack drug

First patients dosed with Infex Therapeutics’ RESP-X for chronic respiratory disease

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