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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

News and Trends 22 Nov 2022

Arecor to start second type 2 diabetes clinical trial

Arecor Therapeutics plc says the BASG (Bundesamt für Sicherheit im Gesundheitswesen) has cleared the company’s clinical trial application (CTA) for AT278, an ultra-rapid acting, ultra-concentrated (500 U/mL) insulin candidate, in type 2 diabetic patients. The CTA approval means Arecor can start its second phase I clinical trial for AT278. AT278 has previously demonstrated a faster […]

November 22, 2022 - 3 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

Immorna cleared for mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine study

U.S. biotech company Immorna says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its investigational new drug (IND) application to conduct a phase 1/2 multi-center study of JCXH-221, a lipid nanoparticle (LNP) complexed broadly protective mRNA vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 infection and diseases. The goal of the multi-center study is to assess the safety and immunogenicity […]

November 21, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 18 Nov 2022

Novavax’ COVID-19 vaccine gets expanded authorization for booster in adults

Novavax, Inc., a U.S-based biotechnology company announced today (November 18) that Health Canada has granted expanded authorization for Covid-19 vaccine Nuvaxovid. The vaccine NVX-CoV2373 for active immunization to prevent the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) as a homologous booster in adults aged 18 and older. “Canadians now have access to our […]

November 18, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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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

Arecor to start second type 2 diabetes clinical trial

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

Immorna cleared for mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine study

Novavax’ COVID-19 vaccine gets expanded authorization for booster in adults

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