Data from two Alzheimer’s tests being developed by Roche Holding AG showed high accuracy in detecting the disease in patients being tested for the condition. The tests measure biomarkers in the blood linked to Alzheimer’s and will help provide desperately needed information by letting patients know whether they have the disease or not, Margherita Carboni, Neurology Indication Lead at Roche Diagnostics told BioWorld.
OSE Therapeutics SA has reported positive data for lusvertikimab in a phase II trial in ulcerative colitis, boosting the monoclonal antibody’s prospects of becoming the first anti-interleukin-7 therapy to reach the market.
Drug regulators around the world have a unique opportunity – and, in some cases, a legal mandate – to remove the taint of forced labor from the biopharma supply chain. But some of them, including the U.S. FDA and Japan’s PMDA, may be turning a blind eye to those responsibilities, according to a recent report from the nonprofit Centers for Advanced Defense Studies.
The U.K. government is partnering with Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc to use its sequencing technology to create the world’s-first ‘early warning system’ for future pandemics. The partnership includes the development of a pathogen-agnostic biosurveillance system across the national health service (NHS).
415 Capital Management GmbH launched its second fund as it looks to raise €150 million (US$165 million) to invest in companies developing medical technologies to address cardiovascular and neurovascular diseases.
Just ahead of the EMA setting out its latest thinking on regulation in the new era of artificial intelligence (AI), the industry has put forward its position on how to ensure AI rules enable, rather than hinder, the drug development and approval process.
The first filing from Cancerrisk AI Inc. describes their development of a system that uses deep learning to predict future cancer risk from a biopsy image.
Inbrain Neuroelectronics SL closed a $50 million series B financing round to advance clinical trials for its graphene-based brain-computer interface therapeutics platform. The company also secured additional funding from Merck KGaA GmbH which will go towards developing the technology for application across both central and peripheral nervous systems.
Shares of Tharimmune Inc. shot up more than 100% in early trading Oct. 30 as the firm disclosed regulatory backing to launch a phase II trial this quarter testing TH-104, a transdermal buccal film version of nalmefene, to treat pruritus that is associated with primary biliary cholangitis.
Synox Therapeutics Ltd. extended its series B by a further $17 million as it announced the first patients have been dosed in a phase III study of emactuzumab in the treatment of tenosynovial giant cell tumor, a rare condition in which benign tumors grow in the soft tissue lining of joints and tendons.