National Institute of Pharmaceutical R&D Co. Ltd. has identified Toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8) agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer and viral infections.
Chongqing Fochon Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. has divulged apoptosis regulator Bcl-2 inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, Addison’s disease, allergy, asthma, atherosclerosis, ankylosing spondylitis, Alzheimer’s disease and systemic lupus erythematosus, among others.
Treatment failure after repeated administration of cisplatin, one of the most used cancer chemotherapeutics, is due to either development of treatment resistance or chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain.
The U.S. FDA has issued a final guidance for non-clinical performance testing for tissue containment bags used during power morcellation procedures, and the FDA had recommended in 2020 containment bags always be used during morcellation procedures. Despite the FDA’s advisory, a survey of surgeons published last year suggested that most of these procedures are not done with these containment systems, possibly because the rate of procedure-related complications is considerably higher when containment is used.
Freenome Inc. has acquired U.K.-based immunodiagnostics developer Oncimmune Ltd. for £13 million (US$16 million), in a move that bolsters Freenome’s frontline early cancer detection efforts. While Freenome has been largely focused on getting the U.S. FDA’s nod for its colorectal cancer test, Oncimmune already has a CE-IVD marked EarlyCDT Lung blood test, an autoantibody platform and an R&D pipeline of over seven cancer detection signals.
In a deal potentially worth $392 million, C4 Therapeutics Inc. signed with Betta Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. to develop and market an orally bioavailable BiDAC degrader for non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
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