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Advancement of first program from Axial platform into a randomized Phase 2b clinical trial signifies key milestone for company Trial is enrolling approximately 195 autistic adolescents at clinical trial sites in the United States, Australia and New Zealand Phase 2 trial is based on positive results from open-label Phase 1b/2a trial that demonstrated a favorable…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: Pfizer said Friday that it can produce a COVID-19 vaccine for the new virus strain identified in South Africa in “approximately 100 days,” subject to government regulatory approval. The pharmaceutical firm said in a statement to CBS MoneyWatch that its researchers are now conducting tests to see if the company’s existing vaccine is effective…
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BioNTech is testing its COVID vaccine against a rapidly spreading variant, the Financial Times said. The B.1.1.529 variant has been detected in South Africa, Botswana, Hong Kong, and Israel. Excerpt from the Press Release: BioNTech said it’s testing the COVID-19 vaccine it developed with Pfizer against the new variant that appears to have emerged in southern Africa, and that it would know in two weeks…
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– The potentially first-in-class inhibitor designed to target glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) has the potential to impact approximately 500,000 cancer patients with unmet therapeutic needs – BridgeBio and Helsinn have also established a non-exclusive framework agreement to identify and potentially co-develop and co-commercialize additional small molecule targeted oncology therapies – This framework agreement leverages BridgeBio’s…
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The interventional, multicenter, open-label Phase 2 basket trial will evaluate the safety and efficacy of milademetan in patients with MDM2-amplified advanced solid tumors Excerpt from the Press Release: NEWARK, Calif., Nov. 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Rain Therapeutics Inc. (NasdaqGS: RAIN), (“Rain”), a late-stage company developing precision oncology therapeutics, today announced that the first patient…
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Case series poster to be presented at the Society for Neuro-Oncology Annual Meeting Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov. 18, 2021– Third paragraph, sixth sentence of release should read: CNSide detected CSF tumor cells in all eleven measurements taken, compared to six of eleven using cytology. (instead of CNSide detected CSF tumor cells…
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Aiming to make Covid vaccines easier to take, East Bay company pushes forward with microneedle patch
Excerpt from the Press Release: An East Bay company formulated a Covid-19 vaccine candidate to load onto a patch of 2,000 microneedles, one of several efforts globally to make it easier to take drugs and vaccines to combat the pandemic. Zosano Pharma Corp. (NASDAQ: ZSAN) of Fremont did not disclose the name of the vaccine,…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO, Nov. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Kintara Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTRA) (“Kintara” or the “Company”), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of new solid tumor cancer therapies, today announced data from two scientific posters for its Phase 2 clinical studies of VAL-083, the Company’s lead compound for the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). …
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Primary objectives: to assess the effect of vafidemstat to address negative and cognitive symptoms in schizophrenia Phase IIb adaptive trial planning to enroll 100 patients Second Phase IIb study of vafidemstat in CNS disorders Excerpt from the Press Release: MADRID, Spain and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Oryzon Genomics, S.A. (ISIN Code:…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: Every day, hundreds of thousands of new COVID-19 cases and thousands of new deaths are still being reported worldwide, creating a need for drugs that can combat the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. Now, new research led by investigators at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital points to a well-known…
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