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It was a busy week for clinical trial updates. Here’s a look.
Amgen released its fourth-quarter and full-year 2020 results today and although there was good news financially, there was also news of five cancer programs that have either been halted or abandoned.
Cross-continental drug development and commercialization deals are good for business, and imperative for patients to receive access to the most valuable scientific breakthroughs. This month has already brought a number of these partnerships for the treatment of cancer and other diseases. Here’s a look at three of them.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared an Investigational New Drug application that will allow Boston-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals to proceed with a clinical trial of its investigational stem cell-derived, fully differentiated pancreatic islet cell treatment for type 1 diabetes (T1D).
Janssen presented additional positive data from its phase I study of its bispecific antibody amivantamab in metastatic or unresectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations.
It was a busy week for clinical trial news. Read on for more information.
While the ATLAS platform has the potential to lead to an effective vaccine in itself, its greatest impact in the field of immunotherapy may be that it offers a new way of understanding how a tumor evades the therapy’s boundaries by identifying bad Inhibigens that lead to suppressive, or inhibitory, responses.
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Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson all have trials of their respective vaccines underway in various age-groups.
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