Clinical research

The trial evaluated crenezumab’s ability to slow Alzheimer’s disease in cognitively unimpaired people with a specific gene mutation that causes early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
Dr. Soon-Shiong and ImmunityBio are on the final leg of what they hope will be the FDA approval of their drug N-803 (anktiva) for the treatment of bladder cancer.
Clover dosed the first participants in a Phase III study of its COVID-19 booster shot, while Global Access Diagnostics, Orbit Discovery, Proximie and more provide business and pipeline updates.
Immunic released favorable updated results for the Phase II EMPhASIS clinical trial investigating the safety and efficacy of vidofludimus calcium to treat relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.
Biopharma has been stepping up research and drug development against COVID-19 -though results haven’t always been encouraging. Here are the latest stories from this space:
Black/African American hematological cancer patients tend to have the worst outcomes. This is partly driven by a lack of access to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant and available donors.
The model has been validated against clinically relevant IBD therapies to demonstrate efficacy and mechanism of action, enabling drug developers to gain more accurate therapeutic insights.
MorphoSys U.S. Inc., Pfizer and Incyte are teaming up to test Pfizer’s TTI-622 in conjunction with Monjuvi plus lenalidomide in patients with lymphoma.
Day One Biopharmaceuticals announced positive early data assessing tovorafenib as a once-a-week treatment in people aged six months to 25 years with relapsed or progressive pediatric low-grade glioma.
The FDA has approved Alnylam Pharmaceuticals’ Amvuttra (vutrisiran) for the treatment of hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis (hATTR) with polyneuropathy in adults.
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