BioSpace News Archive

Drug Development

Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Initiates a Phase 1b/2 Clinical Trial of Rebastinib in Combination with Paclitaxel to Assess Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy in Patients with Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors

Rebastinib is a Potent and Selective Inhibitor of the TIE2 kinase, the Receptor for Angiopoietins, an Important Family of Vascular Growth Factors in the Tumor Microenvironment

October 23, 2018
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7 min read
Business

The Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation Statement: Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s Announcement of Dementia Diagnosis

The Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) is saddened to hear the news that former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor released a letter today saying she has been diagnosed with the beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer’s disease.

October 23, 2018
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1 min read
Pharm Country

Medidata Sets Major New Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Commitments

Company expands CSR pledges, including participation in the UN Global Compact and the CEO Action on Diversity, and outlines new program goals for the next five years

October 23, 2018
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3 min read
Deals

Proteostasis Therapeutics Prices Public Offering of 11,000,000 Shares of Its Common Stock

Proteostasis Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that it has priced an underwritten public offering of 11,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $6.75 per share.

October 23, 2018
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5 min read
Drug Development

OrthoTrophix Presents Knee Cartilage Structure Modification Data of TPX-100 at American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting

OrthoTrophix, a privately held biopharmaceutical company, announced today that the company and its collaborators presented the Phase 2 clinical study data of TPX-100 demonstrating structural improvement of knee cartilage associated with robust knee function improvement in knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR/ARHP) Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL

October 23, 2018
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3 min read
Business

SunTech Drive Announces Collaboration with Stanford University and Google for Energy Internet of Things ARPA-E Project

SunTech Drive is pleased to announce a new collaboration with both Stanford University and Google. The project is tied to the Department of Energy’s NODES (Networks of Distributed Energy Systems) initiative.

October 23, 2018
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2 min read
BioForest

Celgene Corporation Chairman & CEO Mark J. Alles to Deliver Keynote Address at Washington State Life Science Summit

Life Science Washington welcomes Mark J. Alles, Chairman and CEO of Celgene Corporation, as keynote speaker for its annual state summit gathering.

October 23, 2018
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1 min read
BioForest

Digital dashboard for dental plans allows members to set appointments, ask questions, calculate out-of-pocket costs, get real-time benefits information and more

The dental insurance industry just became a lot more competitive

October 23, 2018
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2 min read
Drug Development

Complete Results from First Study in Ongoing Phase 3 Program for Tanezumab Demonstrated Significant Improvement in Pain and Function in Osteoarthritis Patients

Over Half of Patients Treated with Tanezumab Reported a 50 Percent or Greater Reduction in Osteoarthritis Pain of the Knee or Hip

October 23, 2018
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11 min read
FDA

CStone Receives US FDA IND Approval for Recombinant PD-1 mAb CS1003

CStone Pharmaceuticals today announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently granted approval to the company’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application for the independently developed recombinant humanized anti-programmed death-1 (PD-1) monoclonal antibody (mAb) CS1003.

October 23, 2018
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3 min read