Clinical research
In June, it dosed its first two patients using a novel therapeutic, AMT-130, delivered directly to the brain. Initial readouts are expected in a year’s time.
Shares of CymaBay Therapeutics soared after the company announced its experimental primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) treatment seladelpar hit the mark in a Phase III study that sets up potential regulatory approval for this indication.
New York-based Immunic reported positive topline data from its Phase II EMPhASIS trial of IMU-838 in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS).
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As usual, there was plenty of clinical trial news last week. Here’s a look.
Merck is joining the ranks of pharmaceutical companies that have a COVID-19 vaccine candidate in clinical development. Merck will move its candidate into clinical trials in the third quarter of this year, the company announced this morning.
In October 2019, Alexion Pharmaceuticals snapped up Achillon Pharmaceuticals and its oral small molecule Factor D inhibitor program for a rare kidney disease for $930 million in cash. This week, the company shuttered the program following disappointing clinical data.
AiCure’s phone app helps clinical trials keep tabs on which participants have taken their medications correctly and which have not. By analyzing videos the app takes, they can also spot who is intentionally not taking their pills, known as intentional nonadherence.
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Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company announced that the EMPEROR-Reduced Phase III trial in adults with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, with and without diabetes, met the primary endpoint.
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