Month: September 2021

Cellworks Clinical Trial Results Presented at IASLC 2021 World Conference on Lung Cancer

09/16/2021

Personalized Therapy Biosimulation Identifies Novel Biomarkers that Predict Drug and Immunotherapy Response in Patients with NSCLC Excerpt from the Press Release: SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cellworks Group, Inc., a world leader in Personalized Medicine in the key therapeutic areas of Oncology and Immunology, today announced that results from patient stratification studies using the Cellworks Computational…

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Moderna Announces Submission of Initial Data to U.S. FDA for Its COVID-19 Vaccine Booster

09/16/2021

mRNA-1273 at 50 µg dose level induced robust antibody responses of more than 40x against the Delta variant (B.1.617.2) CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq:MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, today announced it has initiated its submission to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the evaluation of a booster dose…

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HeartFlow Announces Enrollment of First Three Patients in FUSION Trial

09/16/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: National Health Care Institute of the Netherlands-supported study to evaluate role of the HeartFlow Analysis in reducing unnecessary invasive procedures REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–HeartFlow, Inc., the leader in revolutionizing precision heart care, today announced that physicians at Erasmus MC Hospital (Rotterdam NL) have enrolled the first three patients in the…

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Pliant Therapeutics Reports Positive Interim Results from Phase 2a PET Imaging Clinical Trial in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

09/16/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: – Single dose administration of PLN-74809 achieved αvβ6 target engagement up to 98% in the lungs of IPF patients – All doses achieved target engagement above the threshold for predicted anti-fibrotic activity, with an observed dose-response relationship – PLN-74809 reached highly fibrotic regions of the lung and was bound to αvβ6 in IPF…

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R3 Vascular Reports the Initiation of Its First-In-Human Clinical Study

09/15/2021

“Clinical development of our bioresorbable sirolimus-eluting scaffold for treating peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is proceeding ahead of schedule and achieving outstanding procedural results,” said Kamal Ramzipoor, CEO of R3 Vascular. Excerpt from the Press Release: MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–R3 Vascular Inc. today reported the successful initiation of its First-in-Human clinical study evaluating the technical and…

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Illumina Partners with Merck to Develop and Commercialize Companion Diagnostic and Research Tests for Use in Identifying Specific Cancer Mutations

09/15/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO, Sept. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) and Merck (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada) today announced a partnership to develop and commercialize tests that identify genetic mutations used in the assessment of homologous recombination deficiency (HRD). Patients whose tumors are HRD-positive may be…

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Adamis Pharmaceuticals Doses First Patients in Phase 2/3 Clinical Trial for Tempol in the Treatment of COVID-19

09/15/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO, Sept. 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Nasdaq: ADMP) today announced the initiation of patient dosing in the Phase 2/3 clinical trial for Tempol, an oral antiviral product candidate, in adult patients with confirmed COVID-19 infection. In preclinical studies, Tempol has been shown to have antiviral, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activity.…

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Researchers replicate COVID-19 infections with lab-grown ‘mini-lungs’

09/15/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have grown miniature human lungs in a lab dish that they say come the closest to mimicking the real thing—complete with all the myriad cell types found in the body. The small organoids of human tissue could help rapidly iterate the…

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Sorrento Announces Enrollment of First Subject in Brazil Phase 2 Study of COVI-MSC for Treatment of COVID-19 Associated Acute Respiratory Distress in ICU Patients

09/14/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: First patient enrolled at first site in Phase 2 placebo-controlled study conducted in Brazil. Second site scheduled to start enrolling within one week, with multiple additional sites coming online within one month. SAN DIEGO, Sept. 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SRNE, “Sorrento”) announced today the start of enrollment in its Phase 2 efficacy study of human allogeneic adipose-derived mesenchymal…

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Tantu and Ginkgo Bioworks Announce Partnership to Engineer a Living Biotherapeutic for Gastrointestinal Healing

09/14/2021

Tantu will leverage Ginkgo’s foundries to accelerate strain construction as a key step toward human clinical trials Excerpt from the Press Release: BOSTON, Sept. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Tantu, a company engineering living biotherapeutic products to treat gastrointestinal diseases, and Ginkgo Bioworks (“Ginkgo”), which is building the leading horizontal platform for cell programming, today announced a partnership to accelerate the…

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