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Following a $540 million IPO in May, Acelyrin’s lead candidate izokibep failed to meet the primary endpoint in a Phase IIb/III study of patients with the chronic inflammatory skin condition.
The first-in-class antibody-drug conjugate—in combination with Merck’s Keytruda—has shown promising results in a Phase II study of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.
A thorough reassessment of the confounders between FibroGen’s trials is necessary to salvage the company’s Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy program and regain investor confidence.
The RNAi therapy, which the companies are co-developing and commercializing, reduced blood pressure in hypertensive patients with high cardiovascular risk by 15 mmHg over placebo.
Biotech Beam Therapeutics has dosed the first patient in a Phase I/II study of its base-edited CAR-T therapy in relapsed or refractory T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia/T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma.
With a recent study yielding positive results, experts say GLP-1 drugs are making headway in treating Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.
In a European Phase I/II clinical trial, the experimental drug for treating Crigler-Najjar syndrome reduced bilirubin below toxic threshold in the liver with a single intravenous injection.
The company is ending its investigational drug GB0139’s run in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis after the small-molecule inhibitor failed to slow lung function decline in a Phase IIb study.
The clinical-stage company joins several others in the anti-CD47 space which have dropped studies amid poor results, including Gilead Sciences’ decision late last month to stop a Phase III trial.
Insilico’s AI platform has attracted interest from a growing number of biopharma companies. Meanwhile, several other firms highlight their own AI technologies.
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