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Committee Advises Continuation of Trial Without Modification Excerpt from the Press Release: BOSTON, Oct. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — NeuroBo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: NRBO), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing and commercializing multimodal disease-modifying therapies for viral, neuropathic and neurodegenerative diseases, today announced that an independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) reviewed safety data from 36 patients treated in the Phase…
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– VRDN-001 program remains on track for key proof of concept clinical data in Thyroid Eye Disease patients in the second quarter of 2022 – Excerpt from the Press Release: WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Viridian Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRDN), a biopharmaceutical company advancing new treatments for patients suffering from serious diseases…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: When startup TFF Pharmaceuticals raised $14 million in a series A in 2018, its intention was to deploy its dry-powder drug-delivery technology toward making novel inhalable therapies for asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other serious lung diseases. Then COVID-19 hit, and the company saw an opportunity to apply the…
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-Preclinical findings that demonstrated efficacy in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) driven by RAS or other MAPK-pathway activating mutations will be presented at the AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics -BridgeBio’s SHP2 inhibitor, BBP-398, is part of its growing precision oncology portfolio, which also includes KRAS inhibitors for KRAS cancers, GPX4 inhibitors…
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– AMX-818, an HER2-targeted T cell engager (TCE), is the lead program in Amunix’s XPAT® (XTENylated Protease-Activated TCE) platform designed to improve the therapeutic index of TCEs for the treatment of patients with solid tumors. – The collective preclinical data indicate that AMX-818 is effective in driving anti-tumor responses, yet has significantly lower toxicity than its unmasked HER2 TCE counterpart. This…
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– Lead oral PRMT5 inhibitors PRT543 and PRT811 demonstrate favorable safety profile, evidence of preliminary clinical activity including durable responses and high levels of target inhibition of PRMT5 in Phase 1 dose escalation in unselected patients – – CDK9 inhibitor PRT2527 demonstrates strong efficacy in hematological malignancies and solid tumor models with MYC dysregulation in preclinical studies…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Oct. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Phio Pharmaceuticals Corp. (Nasdaq: PHIO), a biotechnology company developing the next generation of immuno-oncology therapeutics based on its proprietary self-delivering RNAi (INTASYL™) therapeutic platform, today presented new data with PH-894, Phio’s self-delivering RNAi compound targeting the bromodomain-containing protein 4 (BRD4) at the AACR-NCI-EORTC Virtual International Conference on Molecular…
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Preclinical data demonstrate that XMT-2056 activates the STING pathway in a target-dependent manner in both tumor cells and tumor-resident immune cells and is significantly more efficacious in head-to-head studies than trastuzumab-TLR7/8 agonist ADC and small-molecule systemically-administered STING agonist benchmarks XMT-2056 targets a novel epitope of HER2 with differentiated binding from trastuzumab and pertuzumab, potentially allowing…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: LEXINGTON, Mass., Oct. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Curis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRIS), a biotechnology company focused on the development of innovative therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, today announced two poster presentations with new preclinical data for CA-4948, a first-in-class small molecule IRAK4 inhibitor, at the AACR-NCI-EORTC Virtual Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics.…
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Confirmed Objective Response Rate of 48 Percent in Patients with NTRK+ TKI-Pretreated Advanced Solid Tumors Confirmed Objective Response Rate of 62 Percent in NTRK+ TKI-Pretreated Advanced Solid Tumor Patients with Solvent Front Mutations Breakthrough Therapy Designation Recently Granted in Patients with NTRK+ Advanced Solid Tumors Who Have Progressed Following Treatment with 1 or 2 Prior TKIs Confirmed…
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