Data from a newly published case series underscores the effectiveness of Cytosorbents Corp.’s blood purification technology in treating critically ill COVID-19 patients.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Aim, Ascentage, Celltrion, Equillium, Inmed, Karyopharm, Medicinova, Urovant.
LONDON – Efficacy data for Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine held steady at 91.4% in the second interim analysis, conducted after 39 confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection in 18,794 volunteers, seven days after they received the second dose.
HONG KONG – Final results of Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.’s phase III open-label extension study of Takhzyro (lanadelumab) showed that continued treatment with the monoclonal antibody may help with the long-term prevention of hereditary angioedema attacks.
PERTH, Australia – Sydney-based Imugene Ltd.’s stock shot up 15% on news that an interim analysis of phase II data in its B-cell peptide vaccine, HER-Vaxx, in advanced gastric cancer showed positive survival data, and the data monitoring committee said it could lower the number of patients required for study completion.
LONDON – A third COVID-19 vaccine has turned in positive results in the phase III interim analysis, with Astrazeneca plc/Oxford University reporting an average of 70.4% efficacy across two dose regimens for AZD-1222. Significantly, efficacy increased to 90% in the prime-boost arm of the trial, in which volunteers received half a dose, followed by a full dose. In addition to greater protection, that will make supplies go further.
HONG KONG – Gemvax & Kael Co. Ltd. reported the full results from a phase II trial in Korea for GV-1001 (tertomotide), its telomerase modulator, in Alzheimer’s disease, showing a statistically significant improvement in neuropsychiatric inventory and an improvement trend in Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study-Activities of Daily living, the study’s two secondary endpoints.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Apnimed, Bausch, Capricor, Celularity, City of Hope, GSK, Kubota, Oramed, Principia, RDIF, Reithera, Strongbridge, Targovax, Tolmar.
GT Medical Technologies Inc. revealed that it has raised $16 million in a series B financing round led by MVM Partners, which was joined by existing investors Medtech Venture Partners and Bluestone Venture Partners. Funds will support the expanded commercialization of Gammatile Therapy, a surgically targeted radiation therapy (STaRT) that is intended to help patients with brain tumors.
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