• Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., of Osaka, Japan, reported top-line results from the GEMINI I Phase III study of vedolizumab in 895 patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis who have failed at least one conventional therapy, including tumor necrosis factor-alpha antagonists. Both phases of the year-long trial met their primary endpoints, providing statistically significant improvements in clinical response in the six-week induction phase and clinical remission in the subsequent maintenance phase.