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High multiplexed patient-centric assays could reduce patient burden
Protocol design optimization and timely engagement of regulators are the crux of optimized, patient-centric clinical trials.
The regulator lifted a clinical hold on Verve Therapeutics’ CRISPR-based therapy clearing its Investigational New Drug application and plans to evaluate VERVE-101 in a Phase I heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia trial.
Uniting thought leaders across the life sciences landscape, JLABS @ NYC rejoices in five years of catalyzing startups.
The biotech will pause its lirafugratinib program for a rare bile duct cancer to target a larger FGFR2-altered solid tumors population, citing the Inflation Reduction Act as a driving decision factor.
In a Phase Ib/II study, Tempest Therapeutics’ investigational PPAR⍺ antagonist—combined with Roche’s Avastin and Tecentriq—showed strong signs of survival benefits in liver cancer patients.
Its reversible nature offers the potential for RNA editing to go beyond rare diseases, eliciting excitement and buy-in from large pharmas like GSK and Eli Lilly.
New Phase I/II trial results show that one more type 1 diabetes patient achieved insulin independence after treatment with Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ investigational stem cell therapy VX-880.
On Monday, Syndax Pharmaceuticals announced that its menin inhibitor revumenib met the goal in a pivotal leukemia study and stopped the trial early. Their stock price still dropped on the news.
Shares of the biotech startup jumped as much as 70% on Friday after the company reported promising early-stage results for a four-week trial that included only 24 patients.
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