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Pfizer puts up $1bn to buy into Arvinas breast cancer programme

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The deal focuses on ARV-471, currently in phase 2 testing for advanced breast cancer patients whose tumours expresses oestrogen receptors – so are hormone sensitive – but test negative for HER2 receptors that would make them candidates for treatment with drugs like trastuzumab. billion in backloaded milestone payments.

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Orserdu (elacestrant) Approved for Patients with ESR1 mutations in ER+/HER2- Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancers

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Aditya Bardia, MD, MPH, director of Breast Cancer Research at Mass General Cancer Center, associate professor at the Medicine Department at Harvard Medical School and principal investigator for the EMERALD trial, in the same press release statement. Mutations in the ESR1 , however, have contributed to the rise of endocrine resistance.

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A Complex Chromosomal Abberation Called Adrenoleukodystrophy

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The buildup in adrenal glands leads to the insufficient hormonal response, thus leading to several of the symptoms such as deficiency of steroid hormones (mainly cortisol and aldosterone), impaired cortisol secretion, and others that are harbingers of the disease. A novel, brain penetrant, orally bioavailable and selective PPAR?

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Ikena bags $120M; Terns raises $87M for NASH; Ribometrix Genentech Collaboration; Hologic acquires Biotheranostics

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The immunotherapy pipeline is led by an in-licensed EP4 antagonist that Ikena is testing combined with Keytruda in phase 1b/2 colorectal and non-small cell lung cancer clinical trials. Eli Lilly backed Terns Pharmaceuticals now has two NASH candidates in clinical trials. IND-enabling studies are underway.

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