The clinical trial is anticipated to begin in late 2015

Results of the PROLASTIN-C SPARK study, a multidose pharmacokinetic clinical trial, were presented at the annual meeting of the American Thoracic Society in Philadelphia

The study is being sponsored by the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology, a cooperative group of the National Cancer Institute (NCI

plc product bapineuzumab have dampened enthusiasm for Alzheimer's therapy and cast a shadow over subsequent late-stage clinical trials. (See BioWorld Today, Aug. 8, 2012, and Aug. 27, 2012.) Some firms have stumbled earlier

The program is expected to move into clinical trials within two years

Funds will be used to support ongoing and new clinical trials and development and commercialization of Parkinson's psychosis drug pimavanserin and for general corporate purposes...Net proceeds are expected to total about $37.7 million and will be used to fund clinical trials of SFP, an iron compound for hemodialysis patients, and for general corporate purposes

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...Proceeds would be used to fund clinical trials, R&D for additional alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) indications, expanding distribution capabilities for additional territories for marketing AAT product Glassia and for general corporate purposes

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

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

clinical trial planning and execution of trials guided by Merck Serono's strategy The deal spans five years 5/16/13 NextBio (Santa Clara, Calif.) Sanofi SA (Paris) ND Multiyear collaboration aimed at using NextBio Clinical to incorporate patient omics and clinical data into Sanofi's drug R&D Terms were not disclosed 5/1/13 ScinoPharm Taiwan Ltd. (Tainan, Taiwan) Coland Holdings Ltd. (Hong Kong) ND Strategic alliance to develop a series of generic oncological drugs for mainland China ScinoPharm

Getting Fresh Eggs For non-patient specific stem cells currently in clinical trials, getting source cells is a one-time issue...Clinical trials involving personalized cellular therapies are closely supervised by the FDA, because while small-molecule drugs are static, destined to have a certain efficacy and safety profile, cellular therapies intrinsically vary between patients – and that variation is magnified by having not just a different patient each time, but a different egg donor for each

That realization – and the fact that dozens of drug hopefuls have failed in clinical trials – has prompted a search for new ways to fight sepsis. (See BioWorld Today, Jan. 3, 2012, Aug. 15, 2012, and Aug. 27, 2012.) Labeta and his team have turned their attention on the TLR system, but not in the typical way of targeting one class of TLRs

Based on early findings, Oncos was launched in 2008 to take the technology into conventional clinical trials and seek a commercial path forward

ACT is currently enrolling patients in three clinical trials in the U.S

to produce and supply 123I-labeled NAV5001 for Navidea's late-phase clinical trials...The agreement focuses on Nordion's cGMP manufacturing and supply of NAV5001 clinical trial material to be produced at Nordion's Vancouver, British Columbia, facility

TAIPEI, Taiwan – In what is likely one of the first attempts by a foreign biopharma to complete the full range of clinical trials in China for a new biologic, leading to regulatory and market approval by Chinese drug approval authorities, therapeutic antibodies specialist RuiYi Inc., of La Jolla, Calif., and Shanghai, entered a collaboration agreement with Genor BioPharma Co...RuiYi is leading the joint venture to take advantage of favorable conditions in China for clinical trials, for RA

Proceeds would be used to fund clinical trials, R&D for additional alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) indications, expanding distribution capabilities for additional territories

Approval was supported by data from the Program of Ulcerative Colitis Research Studies Utilizing an Investigational Treatment (PURSUIT) clinical trials, evaluating patients with moderately to severely active UC who had previously failed or were intolerant to conventional treatments

Under the agreement, Quintiles will direct clinical trial planning and execution of trials guided by Merck Serono's strategy