COVID-19

Excerpt from the Press Release: WILMINGTON, Del.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Incyte (Nasdaq:INCY) today announced that the Phase 3 RUXCOVID study evaluating the safety and efficacy of ruxolitinib (Jakafi®), a JAK1/JAK2 inhibitor, plus standard-of-care (SoC) as a treatment for patients 12 years and older with COVID-19 associated cytokine storm did not meet its primary endpoint. Initial data show that…

Excerpt from the Press Release: PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. and SUZHOU, China, Dec. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — INOVIO (NASDAQ: INO), a biotechnology company focused on bringing to market precisely designed DNA medicines to treat and protect people from infectious diseases and cancer, and Advaccine Biopharmaceuticals Suzhou Co., Ltd. (“Advaccine”), an emerging biotech company with next-generation technology in vaccines –…

Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO, Dec. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ —Viracta Therapeutics, Inc. (Viracta or the Company), a precision oncology company targeting virus-associated malignancies, today announced recent clinical and regulatory developments regarding its lead program for the treatment of relapsed/refractory (R/R) EBV+ lymphomas. At the 62nd American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Dr. Pierluigi…

Excerpt from the Press Release: CONCORD, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cerus Corporation (Nasdaq: CERS) today announced the oral presentation of a clinical study: “Efficacy of COVID-19 Pathogen Inactivated Convalescent Plasma for Patients with Moderate to Severe Acute COVID-19: A Case Matched Control Study,” presented by Dr. Nina Khanna of the University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland, at the American…

Excerpt from the Press Release: BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PureTech Health plc (LSE: PRTC, Nasdaq: PRTC) (“PureTech” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company dedicated to discovering, developing and commercializing highly differentiated medicines for devastating diseases, today announced the initiation of its global, Phase 2 trial of LYT-100 (deupirfenidone) in Long COVID respiratory complications and related sequelae. LYT-100…

Excerpt from the Press Release: United Kingdom (Precision Vaccinations) A commonly used anti-inflammatory treatment has been added to the Randomised Evaluation of COVid-19 thERapY (RECOVERY) study, the world’s largest clinical trial of treatments for patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Professor Peter Horby at the University of Oxford and co-Chief Investigator of the RECOVERY trial, said in…

Excerpt from the Article: Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE requested emergency authorization of their Covid vaccine on Friday, and it could take at least three weeks for a U.S. Food and Drug Administration decision as trial data is probed by agency staff and outside advisers. Shown to be 95 percent effective and without any major…

Excerpt from the article: Fluvoxamine, an antidepressant used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder, may help prevent clinical deterioration of patients with mild coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), results of an early clinical trial suggest. The double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized study, published in JAMA, included 152 outpatients with COVID-19 in the St. Louis area between April 10 and August…

Excerpt from the Press Release: Celltrion Group has completed enrolment of 327 patients with mild-to-moderate SARS-CoV-2 infection symptoms to evaluate anti-Covid-19 monoclonal antibody treatment candidate CT-P59 in the global Phase II clinical trial. Celltrion Group has completed enrolment of 327 patients with mild-to-moderate SARS-CoV-2 infection symptoms to evaluate anti-Covid-19 monoclonal antibody treatment candidate CT-P59 in…