Rhythm Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s sales with Imcivree (setmelanotide) in weight management could exceed $1 billion by 2028 if hypothalamic obesity (HO) is added to the label of the drug, Oppenheimer analyst Leland Gershell said in a report. Boston-based Rhythm rolled out positive top-line data from the pivotal phase III study called Transcend with the melanocortin-4 receptor agonist in HO. The global trial met its primary endpoint with a statistically significant and highly clinically meaningful reduction in body mass index in adult and pediatric HO patients vs. placebo.
“Men in general have been playing golf for a longer time – in those old boy networks we still haven’t tapped into.” It may seem far-fetched, but that is put forward as a reason for underinvestment in women’s health companies. The argument goes that women heading women’s health startups find it hard to raise money because their networks are weaker, making it harder to tap into investment networks.
Radiopharmaceuticals, including 16α-18F-fluoro-17β-estradiol (18F-FES) PET/CT, are emerging as powerful tools with new diagnostic and therapeutic potential in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, Han Sang-won, professor from the department of nuclear medicine at Asan Medical Center, recently told BioWorld.
Beigene Ltd. said it is shutting down development of its anti-TIGIT antibody, ociperlimab (BGB-A1217), after the humanized IgG1-variant monoclonal antibody failed a phase III trial in lung cancer. The move is one of many in a string of anti-TIGIT immunotherapy failures.
“Men in general have been playing golf for a longer time – in those old boy networks we still haven’t tapped into.” It may seem far-fetched, but that is put forward as a reason for underinvestment in women’s health companies. The argument goes that women heading women’s health startups find it hard to raise money because their networks are weaker, making it harder to tap into investment networks.
The latest obesity contender, Antag Therapeutics A/S, has dosed the first participants in a phase I trial of a glucose-dependent insulinotrophic polypeptide (GIP) agonist it said will address key gaps in the current treatment options, not least the gastrointestinal side effects seen with GLP-1 agonists.
Greenwich Lifesciences Inc. followed a February update with another on the phase III Flamingo-01 trial, providing open-label immune response data for GLSI-100, a HER2/neu peptide vaccine immunotherapy to prevent breast cancer recurrences in patients who have completed standard therapy. Specifically, GLSI-100 combines GP2, the HER2/neu-derived peptide, with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor.
Top-line data from the second and third parts of Edgewise Therapeutics Inc.’s four-part phase II Cirrus-HCM study in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) has produced more positive data. There was however less enthusiasm for the results than there had been in September for the first batch of data.
After announcing that lead candidate sozinibercept (OPT-302) failed the phase III Coast trial in wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), Opthea has now decided to close the Coast trial as well as the Shore trial. As reported by BioWorld, Opthea announced last week that it was considering its options after lead candidate sozinibercept (OPT-302) failed the phase III Coast trial in wet AMD.
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