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Sight Sciences Announces First Patient Treated in TRIDENT European Trial to Evaluate the OMNI® Surgical System in Pseudophakic Eyes with Open-Angle Glaucoma

03/31/2022

Novel trial design will compare safety and effectiveness outcomes for the OMNI Surgical System and the iStent inject® in lowering intraocular pressure (IOP) as a standalone treatment option without concomitant cataract surgery. Excerpt from the Press Release: MENLO PARK, Calif., March 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sight Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGHT), an eyecare technology company focused on creating innovative…

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BioFluidica Extends NIH Award through the Midwest Biomedical Accelerator Research Consortium for an At-Home Device Using Breakthrough Technology in the Fight Against COVID-19

03/30/2022

BioFluidica LiquidScan Next-Generation Testing Platform, Can Detect Diseases in 15 Minutes Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO, March 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — BioFluidica, a privately held biotechnology company, today announced they have been awarded a continuation grant from the Midwest Biomedical Accelerator Research Consortium (MBArC) on behalf of the National Institutes of Health Rapid Acceleration of…

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Oncolytics Biotech® Partner Adlai Nortye Advances Chinese Bridging Trial of Pelareorep-Paclitaxel Combination Treatment in Breast Cancer to Final Dosing Cohort

03/30/2022

First two cohorts indicate pelareorep in combination with paclitaxel was well-tolerated with no new safety signals observed to date Trial is designed to satisfy regulatory requirements and accelerate pelareorep’s development in large and rapidly growing pharmaceutical markets, including China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea Final cohort’s dosing regimen is equivalent to Oncolytics’ North American phase 2 trial in…

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PHYLEX BIOSCIENCES PUBLISHES POSITIVE RESULTS OF PROTECTION STUDY AGAINST SARS-CoV-2 DELTA VARIANT WITH ITS SECOND-GENERATION mRNA VACCINE

03/29/2022

Excerpt from the Press Release: DEL MAR, Calif,, March 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic there is still a need for vaccines to effectively control the spread of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants and associated cases of severe disease. The current vaccines offer limited protection over time against the omicron variant that is now dominating…

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Alladapt Announces Initiation of Encore Open-Label Extension Study for its Harmony Phase 1/2 Study of ADP101 for Treatment of Food Allergy

03/28/2022

Harmony remains ongoing, with OLE study intended to gain insights into long-term exposure to ADP101 in qualifying patients Excerpt from the Press Release: MENLO PARK, Calif., March 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Alladapt Immunotherapeutics Inc., a private, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing prescription therapeutics to address IgE-mediated food allergy, today announced the first patient has been…

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Seres Therapeutics Presents Preclinical Research on Investigational Microbiome Therapeutic SER-155 at the 2022 European Bone Marrow Transplantation Annual Meeting

03/28/2022

– Preclinical data demonstrate SER-155 reduces infection and Graft-versus-Host Disease – Excerpt from the Press Release: CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Seres Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: MCRB), a leading microbiome therapeutics company, will present preclinical findings tomorrow at the European Bone Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) Annual Meeting that suggest SER-155 works by targeting the host immune response, potentially allowing patients undergoing…

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Soligenix COVID-19 Vaccine, CiVax™, Boosts Neutralizing Activity against SARS-CoV-2, including Delta and Omicron

03/28/2022

CiVax™ booster vaccine administered seven months after primary vaccination with COVID-19 adenovirus vaccine shows rapid enhancement of neutralizing antibody responses in non-human primates Neutralizing antibodies against Delta and original strain increased by up to 27-fold within one week and up to 243-fold within three weeks Omicron neutralizing antibody levels were undetectable prior to booster vaccination, and…

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Eiger’s Single-dose Peginterferon Lambda for COVID-19 Reduced Risk of Hospitalization or ER Visits by 50% in a Predominantly Vaccinated Population in Phase 3 TOGETHER Study

03/25/2022

Second largest study to date in COVID-19 outpatients (N=1,936) Highly superior compared to placebo, with a probability of superiority of 99.91% on the primary endpoint 60% reduced risk of COVID-19-related death Primary endpoint achieved across multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants, including omicron Eiger plans to submit data to FDA for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) Management to host…

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Biological Dynamics Study Demonstrates Detection of Early-Stage Cancers

03/25/2022

In a Nature Communications Medicine publication, the Verita™ proprietary platform detected 96 percent of stage 1 pancreatic cancers and three-quarters of stage 1 ovarian cancers using isolated exosomes and AI-enabled protein marker analysis Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Biological Dynamics, Inc. announces the publication of its study, Early-Stage Multi-Cancer Detection Using an Extracellular Vesicle…

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Ionis announces publication of positive Phase 2 data for donidalorsen in New England Journal of Medicine

03/25/2022

Treatment with donidalorsen in Phase 2 study significantly reduced angioedema attacks by 90% and provided improvement in quality of life Published findings demonstrate favorable safety and tolerability profile of donidalorsen in Phase 2 study Donidalorsen is one of Ionis’ wholly owned medicines the company plans to commercialize Excerpt from the Press Release: CARLSBAD, Calif., March…

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