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CuraSen Therapeutics Announces Successful Completion of Phase 2 Safety, Tolerability and Proof of Concept Study in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease or Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) with CST-103/CST-107 Treatment

01/04/2023

Unique Combination of Beta2 Adrenoceptor Agonist (CST-103) and Beta Blocker (CST-107) Eliminated Known Agonist Adverse Events, Establishing Foundation for Longer-Term Clinical Studies Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN CARLOS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CuraSen Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage company developing small molecule therapies to treat neurodegenerative disease, announced today positive top-line safety, tolerability and proof of concept data,…

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Applied Molecular Transport Announces Top-line Phase 2 Results from LOMBARD Monotherapy Trial of Oral AMT-101 in Patients with Moderate-to-Severe Ulcerative Colitis

01/04/2023

– Similar clinical remission rates observed in patients receiving AMT-101 monotherapy compared to placebo at week 12 – AMT-101 was well-tolerated – Planned Phase 1b trial for the company’s second clinical asset, AMT-126, in UC patients – Exploring strategic partnership options to advance AMT-101 into Phase 3 in patients with chronic pouchitis – Strong cash…

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01/04/2023

Results of the main study in patients with compensated cirrhosis due to NASH (F4) expected in fourth quarter of 2023 Results of the cohort D expansion to evaluate EFX in combination with GLP-1 therapy in patients with pre-cirrhotic NASH expected in second quarter of 2023 Following designation of EFX as a Breakthrough Therapy, a meeting…

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Armored CAR T Cells Break Through Immune Suppression in Solid Tumors

12/23/2022

Researchers determined the safety and antitumor ability of genetically engineered CAR T cells that circumvent immune suppression in a prostate cancer phase I clinical trial. Excerpt from the Press Release: When developing chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, researchers take T cells from a patient’s blood and engineer them to target specific antigens presented…

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Cerevel Therapeutics Announces Publication in The Lancet of Emraclidine Data from Phase 1b Clinical Trial in People Living with Schizophrenia

12/23/2022

Emraclidine is being developed as a potential once-daily treatment for schizophrenia without the need for titration Data show clinically meaningful and statistically significant improvement with emraclidine in PANSS total score at six weeks and was overall well-tolerated compared with placebo Results demonstrate selective targeting of the M4 muscarinic receptor subtype as a potential novel treatment…

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Palisade Bio Provides Update on U.S. Phase 2 Study Evaluating LB1148 for Post-Surgical Abdominal Adhesions

12/23/2022

Topline data readout from study expected in first half of 2023 Excerpt from the Press Release: Carlsbad, CA, Dec. 16, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Palisade Bio, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALI), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company advancing therapies for acute and chronic gastrointestinal (GI) complications, is providing an update on its U.S. Phase 2 study evaluating LB1148 for reduction…

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Equillium’s Partner Biocon Initiates Phase 2 Study of Itolizumab in Ulcerative Colitis

12/22/2022

Excerpt from the Press Release: LA JOLLA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Equillium, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQ), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing novel therapeutics to treat severe autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, today announced that Biocon Limited, in collaboration with Equillium, has initiated a Phase 2 clinical study of itolizumab in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC). The Phase 2…

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Data Published in JCEM Demonstrate Strong Real-World Performance of Veracyte’s Afirma GSC in Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis

12/22/2022

Meta-analysis of 13 independent studies suggests genomic test performs even better in real-world clinical practice as compared to original clinical validation study Excerpt from the Press Release: SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Veracyte, Inc. (Nasdaq: VCYT) today announced that findings demonstrating the strong real-world performance of the Afirma Genomic Sequencing Classifier (GSC) were published in The…

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Guardant Health announces positive results from pivotal ECLIPSE study evaluating a blood test for the detection of colorectal cancer

12/22/2022

Excerpt from the Press Release: PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Guardant Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GH), a leading precision oncology company, announced today positive results from ECLIPSE (Evaluation of ctDNA LUNAR Assay In an Average Patient Screening Episode), an over 20,000 patient registrational study evaluating the performance of its blood test for detecting colorectal cancer (CRC) in average-risk…

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Partner Therapeutics Announces Publication of a Retrospective Cohort Review of 15 LEUKINE® Treated Patients with Pediatric Malignancies and Invasive Fungal Disease Refractory to Antifungal Therapy

12/21/2022

Excerpt from the Press Release: LEXINGTON, Mass., Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Partner Therapeutics, Inc. (PTx) announced publication of a single institution retrospective cohort review of 15 patients with pediatric malignancies and invasive fungal diseases that were refractory to antifungal therapy and treated adjunctively with Leukine (sargramostim; yeast-derived, glycosylated recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor [rhu…

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