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Pioneering access to complex generic products 

Drug Discovery World

Claire D’Abreau-Hayling, Chief Scientific Officer at Sandoz, examines how generic products can relieve industry pressure and improve access to essential medicines. Off-patent medicines today account for about 80% of global prescriptions at an estimated 20% of the total cost. Complex generics comprise a diverse range of products.

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Kiromic Announces the Filing of Key European Patents for Its Chimeric PD-1 (chPD1) Target

The Pharma Data

Kiromic chPD1 has shown in preclinical data to show a cytotoxic response in 9 different in vivo models with 100% long-term PFS with the induction of host memory responses. chPD1 will be used in the Company’s proprietary chimeric antigen receptor therapy (CAR-T) platform using gamma-delta T-cells (GD-T).

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The challenges and trends of cell & gene therapies 

Drug Discovery World

With the sector looking strong it would be easy to think of the cell & gene sector as being resilient to challenge but this is never the case in pharma: fierce competition can result in fluctuating valuations for listed companies and the regulatory hurdles of pharma means that many companies won’t ever see their product reach the bedside. .