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Excerpt from the Press Release: PHILADELPHIA— Knocking out a protein known to stifle T cell activation on CAR T cells using the CRISPR/Cas9 technology enhanced the engineered T cells’ ability to eliminate blood cancers, according to new preclinical data from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn’s Abramson…
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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 –…
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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…
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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…
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Excerpt from the Article: Allogene Therapeutics has linked its off-the-shelf anti-BCMA CAR-T cell therapy to a 60% response rate in a phase 1 trial. The candidate is up against autologous cell therapies that have set the efficacy bar high, but Allogene has off-the-shelf advantages and levers to pull to further improve outcomes. The original release…
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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…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: PRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: OYST), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of first-in-class pharmaceutical therapies to treat ocular surface diseases, today announced it has submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a protocol to…
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Excerpt from the Article: While the first two Covid-19 vaccines relying on messenger RNA technology speed toward regulatory approval in the U.S., it’s worth remembering the vehicle that gets them where they need to go in the body. Lipid nanoparticles are the fatty molecular envelopes that help strands of mRNA — the genetic messenger for…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: BOSTON, Dec. 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TearClear, an emerging ophthalmic pharmaceutical company, today announced successful completion of pre-IND (Investigational New Drug) meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the development plan for the preservative free multi-dose delivery of a proprietary Latanoprost formulation, including the clinical study…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — MapLight Therapeutics today announced it has completed dosing of healthy volunteers across five cohorts in a Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating the safety of ML-004, a selective serotonin receptor agonist. Based on results from the study to date, ML-004, which MapLight intends to evaluate…
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