The bad news in March 2022 from Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. regarding Natpara, its recombinant human parathyroid hormone for hypoparathyroidism (HPT), served to generate more interest in the already bubbling space, where a handful of players large and small own prospects at various clinical stages.
ESMO late breakers were released Sept. 8, and scientifically at least, a key theme of the meeting will be that cell therapies, at long last, are capable of besting solid tumors.
Inflarx NV is poised to apply for U.S. FDA emergency use authorization for its complement inhibitor, vilobelimab, in treating seriously ill, mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients, following a reappraisal of the statistical analysis of the 369-patient placebo-controlled phase III trial.
Angioplasty and stenting have combined to become the standard of care for patients with myocardia that sustained damage due to an infarct, but a new study suggests that some of these patients are no worse off with medical management compared to a trip to the cath lab.
Akston Biosciences Corp. emerged from a successful small company that was sold to a pharma major. For Todd Zion, that’s a back-to-basics move that suits him just fine. Zion co-founded Smartcells Inc. in 2003 with technology developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The company went on to develop the once-daily injectable self-regulating insulin product, Smartinsulin, and sold it to Merck & Co. in what was at the time one of the largest preclinical pharmaceutical acquisitions ever.
Wall Street trimmed shares of Veru Inc. (NASDAQ:VERU) by upwards of 20% in the wake of an editorial published Aug. 23 in The New England Journal of Medicine publication NEJM Evidence. The opinion piece, by two critical-care pulmonologists, added verve to the debate about the efficacy of drugs for people hospitalized with COVID-19.
Questioners probed the fine points during Iveric Bio Inc.’s conference call, but news proved unmistakably good with Zimura (avacincaptad pegol) in geographic atrophy (GA), and shares of the firm (NASDAQ:ISEE) closed Sept. 6 at $15.70, up $6.26, or 66%, on positive top-line data from Gather 2, the firm’s second phase III study.
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is still widely seen as the most common cause of irreversible blindness in those aged 50 and older, but the U.S. NIH and two partners from the private sector believe they have a solution. The three have teamed up to develop a patch embedded with induced pluripotent stem cells that has been implanted in a patient in the U.S. for the first time, marking the commencement of a safety study that may help take a bite out of the $4.6 billion in direct medical spending on AMD each year in the U.S.
A recent paper in the Journal of Neuroscience detailing preclinical research from the University of Texas shone new light on triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (Trem2), an increasingly popular target in drug discovery that a handful of companies are pursuing.
The FDA has cleared Immusoft Corp.'s IND for ISP-001 (iduronicrin genleukocel-T) for the treatment of mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS I), allowing initiation of a phase I trial.
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