Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Adaptimmune, Arrowhead, Assembly, Daiichi Sankyo, Enanta, Fortress, Idorsia, Janssen, Matinas, Treadwell, Viking.
Vancouver, British Columbia-based Sierra Oncology Inc. during its recent earnings call offered an update on momelotinib, in phase III development for myelofibrosis. Enrollment in the study won’t be finished until the fourth quarter of 2021.
Strong top-line results from Immunovant Inc.’s phase IIa clinical trial of IMVT-1401 in treating moderate to severe generalized myasthenia gravis increased the competition with Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Argenx SE in the crowded anti-FcRn space.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: 4D Pharma, Cardiol, Cerecor, Dermavant, Mycovia, Novartis, Oncolytics, Oncology Venture, Outlook, Silverback.
Now that Ovid Therapeutics Inc.’s and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.’s phase II study of soticlestat in children with Dravet syndrome (DS) or Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) has produced positive top-line data, Ovid is planning the drug’s phase III clinical trial while pricing a $50 million common stock offering.
DUBLIN – Adrenomed AG has reported encouraging, albeit limited, data for its antibody adrecizumab in eight COVID-19 patients in Germany with life-threatening acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The drug was made available on a named-patient basis to critically ill patients undergoing mechanical ventilation.
A phase III study evaluating a combination of a Novartis AG anti-PD-1 candidate with the well-established BRAF/MEK inhibitor combo in first-line unresectable or metastatic BRAF V600 mutant melanoma missed its primary endpoint of progression-free survival.
Onconova Therapeutics Inc.’s lead candidate in myelodysplastic syndromes took a major hit Monday as the small molecule I.V. rigosertib failed to meet the primary endpoint of significantly improved survival vs. best supportive care in higher-risk patients.
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