Last week the Alameda, Calif., company (NASDAQ:GLYC) announced it had won an orphan drug designation for Galardin and expects to file in mid-1992 to start clinical trials
on Wednesday said it has received Food and Drug Administration approval to begin clinical trials of its Prosorba column for treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis
The company will also begin clinical trials in midyear of tumor necrosis factor in septic shock and cachexia...To support an approval, the company also will begin a large clinical trial this year or next using conventional end points
The 24 smaller companies she tracks each have about $40 million to $45 million in cash, and they will need more money as they head into clinical trials...Several biotech companies are now showing that they can move products through clinical trials for well under $100 million, he said
And Burlington noted that the FDA already has taken some steps to accelerate approvals by using "a more forgiving approach" to the use of some surrogate markers in clinical trials
In November, the Food and Drug Administration approved expansion of ATS' clinical trials of Dermagraft, a living dermal replacement for use in burn treatment, to 24 burn centers
At the meeting, according to Katz, the directors also accepted another consultant's recommendation that the company proceed with clinical trials of Lidakol and consider submitting an additional investigational new drug application for the topical application of Lidakol to burns
Only a formal clinical trial comparing a low dose with a high dose in patients who have undergone splenectomy will prove that the burden and disruption of three treatments per week are truly worthwhile," the NIH group and colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital concluded
The Mississauga, Ontario, developer of products for tissue repair and inflammation said the money would be used primarily for preclinical product development, clinical trials and construction of a pilot production facility
said its Asian licensee, SciClone Pharmaceuticals Inc., has formed a joint venture company to launch a Phase III clinical trial of Thymosin alpha 1 to treat chronic hepatitis B
NeoRx has three clinical trials in progress and has filed for Food and Drug Administration marketing approval of two OncoTrac imaging products to detect metastatic melanoma and small cell lung cancer. (c) 1997 American Health Consultants
The funds will be used primarily for research and development and clinical trials, the company said...Through 1993, the company expects to spend about $45 million for preclinical and clinical trials, said spokeswoman Debra Bannister
The company is also in preclinical testing with an analogous molecule designed to treat myasthenia gravis, and expects to start clinical trials of this compound by January
Gilead, which doesn't yet have drugs in clinical trials, has focused its research in three related areas that have broadened its focus beyond antisense
The drug is now in animal trials, and CarboMed hopes to begin clinical trials next year to treat solid tumors...Jeffrey Sollender, vice president of EJ Financial, said the company hopes that the first-round funding will be sufficient to carry CarboMed through the first phase of clinical trials
Last week the Alameda, Calif., company (NASDAQ:GLYC) announced it had won an orphan drug designation for Galardin and expects to file in mid-1992 to start clinical trials