Clinical research
Top-line results from the Phase III INVIGORATE trial show Aldeyra Therapeutics’, reproxalap, significantly reduced ocular itching in patients with allergic conjunctivitis.
Galectin Therapeutics takes its role seriously, as perhaps the only company developing a therapy for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) cirrhosis, an advanced form of NASH. Along with its Phase IIb/III clinical trial, it recently launched NAVIGATEnash.com.
Please check out the biopharma industry’s COVID-19 stories that are trending for April 27, 2021.
There is hope for uniQure’s HOPE-B trial after all. Shares of uniQure NV are climbing this morning after the company announced the clinical hold on its hemophilia B gene therapy has been lifted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
AstraZeneca and Sanofi announced that their MELODY Phase III trial of nirsevimab hit the primary endpoint in medically attended lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) caused by RSV in healthy late preterm and term infants.
Sanofi will use its manufacturing capabilities to support the development of 200 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine beginning in September.
The fate of three cancer immunotherapies that had been authorized under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Accelerated Approval pathway will be determined next week following failures in confirmatory trials.
It was a busy week for non-COVID-19-related clinical trial news, while fairly quiet on the COVID-19 arena. Here’s a look.
Molecular Partners announced yesterday it has filed for a $100 million initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the U.S., funding which will go toward supporting the company’s work in the development of protein-based treatments for COVID-19 and various cancers.
Ocugen’s plan to bring a COVID-19 vaccine developed by India-based Bharat Biotech later this year remains on track following an interim analysis of Phase III data that shows the vaccine demonstrated a 78% efficacy against mild to moderate infection and 100% efficacy against severe COVID-19.
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