Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Alexion, BMS, Corvus, GSK, Innovent, Merck, Mesoblast, Orexo.
While overall clinical trial activity appears to be slowing, June was the busiest month for the year, and, in fact, all of last year, with a total of 436 items of news related to phase I, phase II and phase III research.
Orexo AB enrolled the first patient in a pivotal trial of its digital therapeutic Modia plus sublingual buprenorphine/naloxone for treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD). Orexo’s Zubsolv, the combination of buprenorphine and naloxone used in the study, has been employed to help U.S. patients with OUD since 2013.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Advaxis, Aeglea, Bio-Thera, Compugen, Galapagos, Incyte, Mirror, Synlogic, Transcenta, Vir.
LONDON – The message that COVID-19 is a disease of the elderly needs to change, according to U.K. researchers who have analyzed complications suffered by 73,197 patients admitted to 302 hospitals in the first wave of the pandemic last year.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Briacell, Cohbar, Cyxone, Escient, Kineta, Madrigal, Sirnaomics.
Harbour Biomed Therapeutics Ltd. said its anti-FcRn monoclonal antibody, batoclimab, generated top-line phase II data in generalized myasthenia gravis, and the company expects to move into a phase III study by the end of this year, with final data reported in April 2022.
The lack of data surrounding the efficacy of Chinese COVID-19 vaccines against the Delta variant has had many questioning them, especially after a recent study showed that one of those vaccines, Sinovac Biotech Ltd.’s Coronavac, was less effective than Pfizer Inc. and Biontech SE’s Comirnaty in Chile.
Approval could come next year for Furoscix from Scpharmaceuticals Inc. (Scpharma), a solution of the standard-of-care heart failure diuretic furosemide formulated to a neutral pH and designed for outpatient use.
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