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Biogen touted an “unprecedented” drop in tau in a Phase 2 trial, backing the company’s decision to take diranersen to Phase 3 despite a missed primary endpoint and seemingly supporting the anti-tau approach.
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As antibody-drug conjugates advance and move into earlier lines of treatment, drug developers have to build gentler therapies that don’t just extend survival but improve it.
FDA’s rare disease decisions are strongest when the patient community has a voice in advisory committee decisions.
The lineup at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference will provide critical insight into where the industry is headed with regard to targets being explored to vanquish the elusive neurodegenerative disease.
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Congressional letters sent to the CEOs of Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Merck, BMS and AbbVie this week voicing concerns about the pharmas’ clinical trials in China highlight an ongoing discrepancy in how government and industry think about the rise of the Asian country’s biotech industry.
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Whistleblowers Erika Cheung and Tyler Shultz discussed their experiences at Theranos during the recent 2022 AACC Annual Scientific Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo.
AbbVie and Sosei add neurological targets in new deal, TransCode and MD Anderson partner on RNA cancer therapies and Xenetic and VolitionRx unite to develop NETs-targeted therapies against cancer.
The FDA has placed a clinical hold on Beam Therapeutics’ leukemia/lymphoma therapy and has lifted the hold on Celyad’s CAR-T candidate for colorectal cancer.
The annual Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) is running from July 31-August 4 at the San Diego Convention Center and online. Here are some of the highlights presented so far.
According to two recent studies, 10 to 30% of people with COVID-19 reported at least one persistent symptom up to six months after infection, which qualifies as Long COVID.
The exact implications of the paxalisib disappointment are still unclear, though it is highly likely that the candidate will be dropped from the GBM AGILE umbrella trial.
IDRx aims to create highly selective and aligned drug combinations to stop key tumor escape mechanisms that will support prolonged and durable responses to therapy.
The FDA granted Priority Review for omidubicel with a target action date of January 30, 2023. Omidubicel is a first-in-class, advanced NAM (nicotinamide)-enabled stem cell therapy.
The decision comes after the FDA put NUV-422, its candidate for high-grade gliomas, on a partial clinical hold, citing safety concerns.
The ongoing AAIC 2022 in San Diego has delivered positive news for the AD space. We look at updates from Vivoryon, Anavex and Argentinian scientists below.