Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Bioarctic, Eli Lilly, Feliqs, Lexicon, Verastem.
Biopharma happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Davi Farmaceutica, Formosa, Immpact, Lyell Immunopharma.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Biofrontera, Bristol Myers, Essa, Novo Nordisk, Supernus, UCB, Vaccinex.
A year out from Leqembi’s approval for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), ongoing research coupled with artificial intelligence is advancing both radiopharmaceuticals and small-molecule drugs for AD diagnostics and treatment, speakers at the 2024 KoNECT-MOHW-MFDS conference said.
Gene editing strategies, from epigenetic engineering to cell reprogramming and genetic vaccines, are accelerating the development of new therapies that awaken the immune system to treat cancer, as presented last month in Rome at the 31st Annual Congress of the European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ESGCT). Some of these advances are taking advantage of the conditions of the tumor microenvironment, where cancer cells coexist with immune cells, microorganisms and blood vessels.