Immunotherapy

ALX Oncology and Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative™ Announce the Selection of Evorpacept in the I-SPY-P1 TRIAL in Combination with Enhertu® in Breast Cancer

08/26/2022

Excerpt from the Press Release: SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — ALX Oncology Holdings Inc., (“ALX Oncology”) (Nasdaq: ALXO) a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company developing therapies that block the CD47 checkpoint pathway, and Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative™ (“Quantum Leap”) today announced that ALX Oncology’s next generation CD47 blocker, evorpacept, has been selected for…

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Regen BioPharma, Inc. Files Provisional Patent Application on Second Generation Survivin mRNA Cancer Immunotherapy Vaccine

08/05/2022

Novel Means of Leveraging Cellular Therapy to “Teach” Immune System to Seek and Destroy Cancer Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Regen BioPharma, Inc. (OTC PINK: RGBP) (OTC PINK: RGBPP), announced today  the filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office  of a provisional patent application covering utilization of…

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Astria Therapeutics Presents New Preclinical Data Showing Differentiated Profile of STAR-0215, in Development for Treatment of Hereditary Angioedema

07/14/2022

— Results Continue to Support that STAR-0215 is a Potent, Selective, and Long-Acting Monoclonal Antibody Inhibitor of Plasma Kallikrein — — STAR-0215 Demonstrates Rapid and Sustained Inhibition of Plasma Kallikrein After Subcutaneous Administration in Monkeys — Excerpt from the Press Release: BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Astria Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATXS), a biopharmaceutical company developing STAR-0215 for hereditary angioedema and…

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BeiGene Announces Late-Breaking Data at ESMO GI Showing Overall Survival Benefit for Tislelizumab Plus Chemotherapy in First-Line Advanced or Metastatic Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

07/06/2022

PD-1 inhibitor tislelizumab plus chemotherapy demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful survival benefit, extending survival by more than six months compared to chemotherapy alone Incidence of most common treatment-related adverse events similar for both arms of the study, with no new safety signal identified for tislelizumab Excerpt from the Press Release: CAMBRIDGE, Mass. &…

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Aristea Therapeutics Announces Dosing of First Patient in Open-Label Extension for Phase 2b Trial of RIST4721 in Palmoplantar Pustulosis

07/05/2022

Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Aristea Therapeutics (Aristea), a clinical-stage immunology focused drug development company advancing novel therapies to treat serious inflammatory diseases, today announced it has dosed its first subject in the open-label extension (OLE) for its Phase 2b trial of RIST4721 in palmoplantar pustulosis (PPP), a rare dermatological…

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Calithera Biosciences Announces First Patient Enrolled in Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Mivavotinib in Relapsed/Refractory non-GCB (ABC) Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma

06/28/2022

— Novel biomarker will be used to identify patients in genetically defined subgroup associated with poorer outcomes — Study will evaluate SYK inhibitor both in patients with wild-type disease and those with tumors that harbor MYD88 or CD79b mutations Excerpt from the Press Release: SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Calithera…

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Novocure and Zai Lab Announce EF-31 Phase 2 Pilot Study Evaluating Tumor Treating Fields Together with Standard-of-Care Chemotherapy Meets Primary Endpoint for First-Line Treatment of Gastric Cancer

06/09/2022

Confirmed objective response rate was 50% for patients treated with TTFields together with standard-of-care chemotherapy Duration of response was 10.3 months One-year survival was 72% Excerpt from the Press Release: Excerpt from the Press Release: ST. HELIER, Jersey & SHANGHAI, China & SAN FRANCISCO & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Novocure (NASDAQ: NVCR), a global oncology company working…

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Surrozen Initiates Dosing in Phase 1 Clinical Trial of SZN-1326 for Moderate to Severe Ulcerative Colitis

05/31/2022

SZN-1326 is a Fzd5-targeted Wnt-mimetic (SWAP) bi-specific antibody First part of three-part Phase 1/1b trial starts in healthy volunteers Excerpt from the Press Release: SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Surrozen, Inc. (“Surrozen” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: SRZN), a clinical-stage company pioneering targeted therapeutics that selectively activate the Wnt pathway for…

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Corbus Presents Latest Preclinical Data for CRB-601 at the New York Academy of Sciences Frontiers in Cancer Immunotherapy Conference

05/24/2022

CRB-601 is a highly potent and selective anti-αvβ8 integrin monoclonal antibody designed to block the activation of TGFb in the local tumor microenvironment Additional non-clinical data demonstrates combination benefit across a diverse range of syngeneic models with differential sensitivity to checkpoint inhibition Anti-tumor activity correlates with increases in proliferating CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells as well as the NK…

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Myeloid Therapeutics Doses First Patient with MT-101 in the IMAGINE Phase 1/2 Clinical Study, Marking the First-ever Dosing of an mRNA Engineered CAR Monocyte to Humans

05/24/2022

– Myeloid dosed MT-101 in a patient with refractory PTCL within 18 months, illustrating the potential of mRNA therapies to help patients sooner and to accelerate Myeloid’s portfolio- – Myeloid achieved an unprecedented, reduced vein-to-vein time of eight days with this patient dosing- – MT-101 represents a new class of non-T cell CAR’s being tested…

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