Press Releases

Arcturus Reports Durability Data Against Omicron Variants, Including BA.5, at Six-Month Timepoint Following Booster with ARCT-154 COVID-19 Vaccine

08/25/2022

New clinical data demonstrate high and sustained geometric mean fold rises (GMFR) in neutralizing antibodies against all evaluated Omicron variants Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc. (the “Company”, “Arcturus”, “Arcturus Therapeutics”, Nasdaq: ARCT), a global, late-stage clinical messenger RNA medicines company focused on the development of infectious disease vaccines and…

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MAPLIGHT THERAPEUTICS ANNOUNCES COMPLETION OF PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL FOR ML-007, A NOVEL THERAPY FOR THE TREATMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DYSKINESIAS

08/25/2022

First in human study demonstrates positive safety and tolerability profile for MapLight’s M1/M4 muscarinic agonist therapy Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — MapLight Therapeutics today announced it has completed its Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating ML-007, the second clinical compound developed using the MapLight platform. ML-007 is an M1/M4…

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Innovent Announces First Subject Dosed in Phase 1 Study of IBI311 (Anti-IGF-1R Monoclonal Antibody)

08/24/2022

Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN FRANCISCO and SUZHOU, China, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Innovent Biologics, Inc. (“Innovent”) (HKEX: 01801), a world-class biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and commercializes high-quality medicines for the treatment of oncology, metabolic, autoimmune, ophthalmology and other major diseases, announces that the first healthy volunteer has been successfully dosed in…

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Valo Health Announces First Patient Dosed in the OPL-0401 Phase 2 study of an oral ROCK1/2 inhibitor for the Treatment of Non-Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy

08/23/2022

Excerpt from the Press Release: Valo’s Opal Computational Platform™ being used to select a patient subset within non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy patients at high risk of progressing toward vision-threatening disease BOSTON, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Valo Health, Inc. (“Valo”), the technology company focused on transforming the drug discovery and development process using human-centric data and…

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SpIntellx and iCura Diagnostics Partner to Expand Access to Advanced Spatial Analytics and Explainable AI Products for Pathology and Oncology Research

08/23/2022

SpIntellx, Inc., a leader in spatially intelligent biology, and iCura Diagnostics, a leading contract research organization (CRO) focused on capitalizing multiomic data to accelerate end-to-end clinical workflow solutions and biomarker discovery, today announced a partnership to transform precision oncology through unlocking the power of genomic, proteomics, and transcriptomic data using advanced spatial analytics. Excerpt from…

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Dermaliq Therapeutics announces first patient dosed in Phase 1b/2 trial evaluating DLQ02 for treatment of plaque psoriasis

08/23/2022

Excerpt from the Press Release: WILMINGTON, Del.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dermaliq Therapeutics, Inc. (Dermaliq), a private, clinical stage pharmaceutical company with a focus on dermatology, today announced first patient dosed in a Phase 1b/2a trial with DLQ02, a topical calcineurin inhibitor. The trial is designed to evaluate the safety, systemic absorption, pharmacodynamics, and clinical efficacy of DLQ02 in…

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Funding from Ontario Institute for Cancer Research to help move research from experiment to impact

08/22/2022

First round of Innovation to Implementation Supplement (I2IS) grants awarded to five promising research projects taking unique approaches to addressing cancer. Excerpt from the Press Release: August 11, 2022, TORONTO – Five Ontario-based research projects will take the next step toward advancing cancer care in the province thanks to funding from the Ontario Institute for…

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Disc Medicine Initiates BEACON, a Phase 2 Clinical Study of Bitopertin in Patients with Erythropoietic Protoporphyria (EPP) and X-linked Protoporphyria (XLP)

08/22/2022

BEACON study will evaluate bitopertin as a potential disease-modifying treatment for patients with Erythropoietic Protoporphyria (EPP) or X-linked Protoporphyria (XLP) Key assessments include changes in protoporphyrin IX levels, safety, tolerability and measures of photosensitivity; preliminary data expected by 1H 2023 Excerpt from the Press Release: WATERTOWN, Mass., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Disc Medicine, a clinical-stage biotechnology…

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Cure Rare Disease Receives FDA Approval to Administer First-in-Human CRISPR Therapeutic

08/22/2022

The first-of-its-kind, CRISPR-based therapeutic aims to stop the progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in a single-patient dosing Excerpt from the Press Release: BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cure Rare Disease (CRD) – a Boston-based 501c3 nonprofit biotech – announces the approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to administer its very first therapeutic. The drug, named CRD-TMH-001, treats…

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BostonGene Announces Publication in Cancer Cell Revealing the Development of a Machine Learning Cellular Deconvolution Algorithm that Accurately Reconstructs the Tumor Microenvironment and Supports Oncology Clinical Decision-making

08/19/2022

Excerpt from the Press Release: WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BostonGene today announced the online publication of the manuscript, “Precise reconstruction of the tumor microenvironment using bulk RNA-seq and a unique machine learning algorithm trained on artificial transcriptomes”in Cancer Cell, a premier peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes high impact results in cancer research and oncology.The study demonstrated the ability…

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