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cellvie Inc., the leader in Therapeutic Mitochondria Transfer (TMT) and a Harvard University spin-off, closes a $5M round to advance its product pipeline, including a first application in rejuvenation.
Roche announced topline data from two identical Phase III trials, TENAYA and LUCERNE, of faricimab in neovascular or “wet” age-related macular degeneration (nAMD).
With a presidential inauguration and a federal holiday, it wasn’t an enormously busy week for clinical trial news, but there was a fair amount, nonetheless. Read on to see.
GSK has discontinued a Phase II clinical trial evaluating an anti-LAG3 cell depleting monoclonal antibody aimed at treating ulcerative colitis licensed from Immutep Limited following an interim assessment of an Independent Data Monitoring Committee.
The decision was made based on an Independent Data Monitoring Committee recommendation which indicated the study was unlikely to meet its specified primary efficacy endpoint of progression-free survival.
Servier and MiNA Therapeutics are partnering on small activating RNA (saRNA) therapies to treat neurological diseases. saRNA is an entirely new class of drugs.
NEUVOGEN’s official strategy revolves around covering the entire immune system so that the tumor cannot perform an “immune escape”. Past immune priming efforts have fallen short because they focus on only a handful of important targets that some tumor cells may not express, thereby allowing them to escape the therapy’s boundaries.
Biopharma and life sciences companies from across the globe provide updates on their pipelines and businesses.
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Daiichi Sankyo’s and AstraZeneca’s Enhertu (fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki) has become the first HER2-directed medication approved to treat gastric cancer in the U.S. in 10 years.
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