Almost all solid tumors are treated with multiple drugs because the combinations have better efficacy than single-agent treatments. But finding those combinations can be difficult in an ever-growing sea of pair-wise combinations.
DUBLIN – Top-line data from a phase II pivotal trial of CP-101, Finch Therapeutics Group Inc.’s oral microbiome therapy for chronic Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), are technically good, but how good is the big question.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: ABM, Achilles, Bioinvent, Fibrogen, Kadmon, Myovant, Oncolytics, Oppilan, Principio, Reneo, Seelos, Sunesis, Vaccitech.
A new U.K. trial evaluating drugs for hospitalized patients in the early stages of COVID-19 has elected to test Evelo Biosciences Inc.'s anti-inflammatory monoclonal microbial, EDP-1815, after an earlier trial found it led to favorable anti-inflammatory activity in psoriasis patients.
Zynerba Pharmaceuticals Inc. in late May popped the lid off top-line data from the open-label phase II study called Bright with ZYN-002 in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder, and the findings drew adjectives from Wall Street such as “provocative” and “encouraging.”
BEIJING – Suzhou, China-based Ascentage Pharma Group Inc. said on Monday that it is working with Astrazeneca plc’s hematology R&D unit, Acerta Pharma, to develop a combination therapy of its Bcl-2 inhibitor, APG-2575, with Acerta's BTK inhibitor, Calquence (acalabrutinib). The first patient has been dosed in the U.S.
BEIJING – Diabetes-focused Hua Medicine (Shanghai) Ltd. became the first drugmaker to reveal phase III data of a glucokinase activator (GKA) designed to treat type 2 diabetes. On June 18, it said its first-in-class GKA, dorzagliatin, showed sustained efficacy and safety for the 52-week treatment period with reductions in HbA1c levels in a completed phase III trial as a monotherapy.
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