The study is being sponsored by the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology, a cooperative group of the National Cancer Institute (NCI...In the trial, aldoxorubicin showed prolonged clinical activity, including partial tumor response, in two subjects with small-cell lung cancer who had failed other therapies...Promedior Inc., of Malvern, Pa., presented data from a clinical study of PRM-151 at the American Thoracic Society Conference in Philadelphia

Clinical improvements were seen in all patients with reductions in median stool frequency from 23 to 14 per week (p = 0.03) and an improvement in the median Bristol Stool Form Scale assessing stool type from 5.515 to 4.34 (p = 0.05...Marina Biotech Inc., of Bothell, Wash., said licensee Mirna Therapeutics Inc., of Austin, Texas, has begun a Phase I study of MRX34, the first miRNA to advance into a human clinical trial for cancer...Interim data from that study were reported earlier and full data are

SONAR is a multinational, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study that is expected to enroll more than 4,000 patients with diabetic nephropathy...The trial, sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is being conducted at the NIAID Phase I Clinical Trials Unit at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland

The analyses included the description of new predictive biomarkers of clinical response to Vectibix, activating mutations in KRAS (beyond exon 2) and in NRAS, collectively referred to as RAS...Additional edata will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago...ACT is currently enrolling patients in three clinical trials in the U.S

Sangamo BioSciences Inc., of Richmond, Calif., said it presented new clinical data, which demonstrated that SB-728-T treatment resulted in a reduction in the HIV reservoir in HIV-infected subjects, at the 16th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy in Salt Lake City...HIV-infected subjects enrolled in an ongoing SB-728-902 clinical trial (Cohorts 1-3) received a single infusion of SB-728-T, which resulted in a durable increase in total CD4 T-cells driven by increased ZFN

The PROCEED (PROve Clinical Efficacy and Effect of Delafloxacin) study is designed to test delafloxacin 300 mg, given intravenously every 12 hours, compared to vancomycin 15 mg/kg plus aztreonam 2 g I.V., also given every 12 hours...The study includes clinical and microbiological endpoints to assess the efficacy...Syndax Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Waltham, Mass., said Phase II results published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology showed that HDAC inhibitor entinostat extended both progression-free

Mirna Therapeutics Inc., of Austin, Texas, has initiated a Phase I study of MRX34, the first miRNA to advance to a clinical trial for cancer

Eisai Inc., of Woodcliff Lake, N.J., said antiepileptic drug Fycompa (perampanel) showed a clear therapeutic benefit in difficult-to-treat patients with partial epilepsy, according to two new analyses of early clinical experience

Data demonstrated that EBI-005 was safe and well tolerated in both preclinical testing and in a clinical Phase Ia study in healthy volunteers...These data led to Eleven's Phase Ib clinical study of EBI-005 in subjects with dry eye disease, with top-line data from the Phase Ib study expected in the second half of 2013

The study, dubbed Gammaglobulin Alzheimer's Partnership, was conducted in collaboration with the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study, a clinical trial consortium supported by the National Institute on Aging

CytRx Corp., of Los Angeles, said the independent data safety monitoring committee overseeing the company's international Phase IIb trial with aldoxorubicin as a first-line treatment for patients with late-stage metastatic soft tissue sarcoma has recommended conducting the clinical trial through completion...The NH004-3 clinical trial is a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, crossover, multicenter study comparing NH004 and placebo thin films in Parkinson's disease patient complaining of

clinical trials where a single dose of NX-1207 has been found to produce on average symptomatic improvements about double that reported for currently approved BPH drugs without causing the sexual or cardiovascular side effects associated with those drugs

Ltd., of Germantown, Md., said it filed an investigational new drug application (IND) to begin clinical trials of its adipose-derived stem cell product, RNL-JointStem, for the treatment of osteoarthritis...Seaside Therapeutics Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., said its Phase IIb trial evaluating arbaclofen (STX209) in core impairments of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) failed to show improvement on the primary endpoint of social withdrawal but demonstrated improvement on the clinical global impression of

The open-label trial will randomize 20 postmenopausal women with estrogen receptor-positive disease who have responded previously to hormone therapy to receive 9 mg of enobosarm once daily until they show clinical progression or have completed 336 days of treatment...The primary endpoint is clinical benefit, which will be assessed at six months...RepliCel Life Sciences Inc., of Vancouver, British Columbia, said it started clinical development of an autologous cell therapy for the treatment of a

Chimerix Inc., of Durham, N.C., presented the first clinical outcomes data on lead candidate CMX001 in life-threatening infection with adenovirus (AdV), a disease with no approved therapy

Cel-Sci Corp., of Vienna, Va., entered a co-development agreement with Ergomed, a clinical research organization (CRO), to expand its Phase III study of Multikine (leukocyte interleukin) as an injectable treatment for head and neck cancer...Under the agreement, Ergomed will contribute up to $10 million toward the study, for which it will perform clinical services in exchange for a single digit percentage of milestone and royalty payments, up to an undisclosed specified amount

The primary objectives include the evaluation of adverse events and a six-month clinical response

Navidea Biopharmaceuticals Inc., of Dublin, Ohio, said the Journal of Nuclear Medicine published the results from a clinical trial of NAV4694 in healthy subjects and those with diagnosed forms of dementia

Alkermes Inc., of Dublin, Ireland, said top-line data from a Phase II study showed that ALKS 5461, a drug in development to treat patients who have an inadequate response to standard therapies for clinical depression, significantly reduced depressive symptoms across a range of standard measures, including the study's primary outcome measure, the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (p = 0.026), the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Scale (p = 0.004) and the Clinical Global Impression-Severity Scale (p