ORLANDO, Fla. – “The Wright brothers showed that you could fly a plane, but it wasn’t very far and it wasn’t very safe,” Wendell Lim told his audience at the 61st American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting this weekend. “That’s where cell therapy is now.”
ORLANDO, Fla. - Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR T) cells have proved to be a major advance in treating patients with refractory B-cell malignancies so far. But, often, in approaching those issues "we solve one and we create another," Stephen Schuster, a doctor at the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, told reporters at the 61st American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting Saturday.
A pivotal trial of Omeros Corp.'s narsoplimab, an investigational therapy for an occasional but serious complication of hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT), found that just one dose was enough to deliver a beneficial effect in more than half the study's high-risk participants, meeting the study's primary endpoint.
Protagonist Therapeutics Inc. stock (NASDAQ:PTGX) nosedived 47% on Tuesday after the company released preliminary results from its phase II open-label study of PTG-300, an injectable hepcidin mimetic to treat patients with transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia.
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