Month: September 2021

The McQuade Center for Strategic Research and Development Enters Agreement with Sentinel Oncology to Develop Breakthrough Treatment for Fragile X Syndrome

09/14/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: RINCETON, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The McQuade Center for Strategic Research and Development, LLC (MSRD), a member of the global Otsuka family of pharmaceutical companies, announces today that it has entered an agreement with Sentinel Oncology (Sentinel), a drug discovery company. The McQuade Center for Strategic Research and Development at Otsuka in the…

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Adaptimmune Updates Data from its Phase 1 Trial for Liver Cancer at ILCA Showing Clinical Benefit

09/14/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: One complete response, and a disease control rate of 64% with stable disease for ≥16 weeks in two patients, as of the data cutoff – – Data presented today at the International Liver Cancer Association meeting at 12:25 p.m. CET – PHILADELPHIA and OXFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom, Sept. 05, 2021 (GLOBE…

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Sentien Biotechnologies Partners with BARDA to Evaluate High Dose Cohort in Phase 1/2 Trial of SBI-101 for Treatment of Acute Kidney Injury Associated with Sepsis

09/13/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: Collaboration Under BARDA DRIVe Solving Sepsis Program to also Support Key Regulatory Path Activities to Advance Development of SBI-101 Sentien Biotechnologies, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel approaches to cell therapy, today announced a partnership with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the office of the…

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Arch Therapeutics Partners with Lovell Government Services to Expand Distribution Capabilities

09/13/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: Arch Therapeutics, Inc. (OTCQB: ARTH) (“Arch” or the “Company”), a marketer and developer of novel self-assembling wound care and biosurgical devices, today announced that it has entered into a non-exclusive distribution agreement with Lovell Government Services (“LGS”), a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (“SDVOSB”), to support and drive sales through the…

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Immunome Antibody Cocktail (IMM-BCP-01) Neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 Lambda and Delta Plus Variants in Pre-clinical Testing

09/13/2021

-IMM-BCP-01 already shown to neutralize all other Centers for Disease Control (CDC) variants of concern in pre-clinical testing- Excerpt from the Press Release: EXTON, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Immunome, Inc. (Nasdaq: IMNM), a biopharmaceutical company that utilizes its human memory B cell platform to discover and develop first-in-class antibody therapeutics, announced today that its three-antibody cocktail (IMM-BCP-01) has demonstrated…

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Affinia Therapeutics Announces Indications for Lead Gene Therapy Programs to Advance the Treatment of Neurologic and Neuro-oncologic Diseases supported by Multi-Year Manufacturing Agreement with Lonza Group

09/13/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: Indications include metachromatic leukodystrophy, a rare, progressive, and fatal disease affecting the nervous system, and brain metastases secondary to HER2+ breast cancer, a common and deadly form of cancer – Affinia Therapeutics to use its proprietary technologies and capsids with improved properties to bring the promise of gene therapy to…

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Largest study of its kind informs treatment of breast cancer in men

09/10/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: Commonly used recurrence risk tests found to be useful for male patients Breast cancer is usually thought of as a disease that affects women, but many are not aware that men can develop breast cancer as well. Two-hundred and forty men in Canada were diagnosed with the disease in 2020…

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Researchers uncover evolutionary forces at play in the aging of the blood system and identify people at increased risk of blood cancer

09/10/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: Discovery could provide early warning for blood malignancies, triggering proactive screening and enabling early treatment Toronto – (August 17, 2021) As people age, mutations can build up in blood stem cells and their clones in a process known as age-related clonal hematopoiesis, or ARCH. ARCH can be a risk factor…

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Stanford AI center’s new platform grants worldwide access to free medical imaging datasets

09/10/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: Stanford University is expanding its free repository of imaging and healthcare datasets for artificial intelligence researchers around the globe. The California school’s Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging first opened in 2019 and has since amassed annotated datasets for more than 1 million images. AIMI is now partnering…

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Pardes Biosciences Initiates First-in-Human Trial for PBI-0451, an Oral Antiviral in Development to Treat and Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infections

09/07/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: CARLSBAD, Calif., Aug. 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pardes Biosciences, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company today announced the initiation of a Phase 1 clinical trial, evaluating the company’s lead candidate, PBI-0451 which is being developed as a potential oral direct-acting antiviral to treat and prevent infections with SARS-CoV-2, the virus…

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