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Rumour mill says AstraZeneca may be eyeing a takeover of Mereo

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The UK-based but US-listed biotech licensed rights to AZ’s orally-active neutrophil elastase inhibitor alvelestat for the rare disease alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) five years ago, and has since advanced the project into a phase 2 trial which is due to read out in the second half of this year.

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MorphoSys, Incyte receive FDA Ok for Monjuvi; Siemens Healthineers set to buy Varian; Immunic’s IMU-838 promising results

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MorphoSys in-licensed Monjuvi, which is a humanized Fc-engineered monoclonal antibody against CD19 – the same protein which CAR-T cell therapies target and is in abundance in cancerous B cells, from Xencor in 2010 and is under evaluation in B-cell malignancies in several ongoing combination trials.

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Novo Nordisk crowns cell therapy pipeline with $598m Heartseed deal

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The Danish drugmaker has acquired exclusive rights outside Japan to Heartseed’s HS-001 therapy based on heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) derived from human stem cells, and is due to start the phase 1/2 LAPiS trial in Japan later this year. An interim look at the results is due later this month.

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Is cardiovascular disease a ‘pandemic hiding in plain sight’?

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But Dr Craig Granowitz, chief scientific officer of cardiology drug developer Amarin, says that this is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the devastating impact of CVD on global populations. “In Even though those patients were well managed for all known disease factors, 28% of them developed a major cardiovascular event within 4.9

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Novartis Leqvio®* (inclisiran) analyses show effective and sustained LDL-C reduction.

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Overall, Leqvio was well-tolerated, with a safety profile similar to placebo and consistent with the overall pooled population from the combined trials 1 – 3. Results were presented at the ESC Congress 2021, organized by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). In the Phase III trials, Leqvio was well-tolerated.

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Novartis new analysis shows high consistency in lowering LDL-C in individual response with investigational inclisiran

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Basel , August 30, 2020 — Novartis today announced results from a post-hoc analysis of pooled data from the Phase III ORION-10 and -11 trials evaluating the individual responses of patients on low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) reduction with inclisiran, a first-in-class investigational treatment for hyperlipidemia in adults.

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Alexion Reports Third Quarter 2020 Results

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In the third quarter, we further progressed our LEAD-EXPAND-DIVERSIFY strategy with multiple regulatory approvals, the initiation of new Phase 3 trials and the integration of the Portola team,” said Ludwig Hantson , Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Alexion. ” Third Quarter 2020 Financial Highlights.

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