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– Clinicians agree that evidence supports testing benefits for all – Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Invitae ( NYSE: NVTA), a leading medical genetics company, joined other clinical experts in releasing a new commentary in Journal of Clinical Oncology Precision Oncology, underscoring the importance of universal germline testing for…
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HIMALAYA Phase III trial exploratory results support the benefit of tremelimumab added to IMFINZI in unresectable liver cancer regardless of etiology Excerpt from the Press Release: WILMINGTON, Del.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Updated results from the TOPAZ-1 Phase III trial showed AstraZeneca’s IMFINZI® (durvalumab), in combination with standard-of-care chemotherapy demonstrated a clinically meaningful and durable overall survival (OS) benefit…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMLX) (“Amylyx” or the “Company”) today announced the publication of preclinical data showing the effect of sodium phenylbutyrate (PB) and taurursodiol (TURSO, also known as ursodoxicoltaurine) on the transcriptomic and metabolomic profiles of primary skin fibroblasts from adults with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)…
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TumorGen’s microfluidic platform traps metastatic cancer cell clusters from lung cancer patients, creating new opportunities for anti-metastatic drug development. Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–TumorGen Inc., and PhenoVista Biosciences LLC have successfully isolated and characterized metastatic cancer cell clusters (MCCCs) from the blood of lung cancer patients’, validating TumorGen’s novel MCCC capture technology.…
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Part A results from the two-part Phase 2 LILAC study show litifilimab significantly reduced disease activity based on active joint count in people with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) compared to placebo Biogen is currently enrolling people with active SLE into two Phase 3 studies in 31 countries worldwide and plans to initiate a pivotal study…
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Not intended for UK-based media First randomized trial in decades to show significant improvement in overall survival in patients with LA SCCHN, reinforcing the transformative potential of xevinapant over standard of care in the curative setting Patients treated with xevinapant plus CRT almost twice as likely to be alive at five years (53% vs 28%)…
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Multicenter basket trial includes cohorts enrolling patients with colorectal and triple negative breast cancer Trial designed to assess efficacy, safety, and evaluate the relationship between tumor Xerna™ TME Panel biomarker subtype and treatment response Excerpt from the Press Release: WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OncXerna Therapeutics, Inc. (“OncXerna”), a precision medicine company…
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Study Evaluates the Effectiveness of TherOx Supersaturated Oxygen (SSO2) Therapy in Patients Presenting with Acute Anterior Myocardial Infarction with Successful Reperfusion Compared to Standard Therapy Excerpt from the Press Release: CHELMSFORD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ZOLL® Medical Corporation, an Asahi Kasei company that manufactures medical devices and related software solutions, announced today that the first patient has enrolled…
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– First patient was enrolled as part of a two-stage Phase 2 study evaluating Ashvattha’s subcutaneous (SC) anti-VEGF wet AMD and DME candidate, D-4517.2 – – The first stage of the study will evaluate the safety and relative pharmacodynamic effect of different doses of subcutaneously (SC) administered D-4517.2 compared to intravitreal (IVT) injection of aflibercept,…
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Company Expects Phase 2 Data with Second Drug Candidate (CST-103) in Neurodegenerative Diseases in Third Quarter of 2022 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 that it has begun dosing patients in a Phase 2a clinical trial with CST-2032,…
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