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Scleroderma drug trial shows up to 60% improvement

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Professor Dinesh Khanna, Frederick GL Huetwell Professor of Rheumatology and Director, Scleroderma Program at the University of Michigan said: “The mechanism of action for FT011 offers an important point of difference for the scleroderma research field as the upstream inhibition of inflammation and fibrosis may offer meaningful clinical outcomes.

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Small Pharma stock market launch funds DMT-based depression drug trial

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UK-based Small Pharma has launched on the Toronto’s TSX Venture Exchange, raising 58 million Canadian dollars (around £34m) to develop medicines based on N,N-dimethyltriptylene (DMT) to treat depression. The post Small Pharma stock market launch funds DMT-based depression drug trial appeared first on.

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Scepticism in press over Kintor’s COVID-19 US drug trial

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China’s Kintor Pharmaceutical has begun late-stage US clinical development of its potential COVID drug proxalutamide – but there is scepticism over the company’s claims about its research. The post Scepticism in press over Kintor’s COVID-19 US drug trial appeared first on.

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Avacta opens two US sites and doses first patient in sarcoma drug trial

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TWO US clinical investigator sites have been opened for a phase 1 clinical trial for patients with soft tissue sarcoma and the first patient has been dosed.

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This week in drug discovery (6-10 February)

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Clinical drug trials have made the headlines this week, as it was revealed that breast cancer still tops the bill for number of clinical studies and the shortcomings in current methods to ensure representation of patient populations in trials were exposed.

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Vicore initiates clinical proof-of-concept study of endothelial dysfunction 

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Patients with diabetes mellitus have an increased risk of cardiovascular events and endothelial dysfunction is an important factor for this development” said Jan Nilsson, Professor in Experimental Cardiology, Lund University, and principal investigator in the trial.

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International Women’s Day: Female life science leaders

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Powers taught for more than six years at the National Institutes of Health, on medical product development and commercialisation, and at Georgetown Law School as an adjunct professor. She founded Neuroute in 2019, with the aim of empowering patients from diverse backgrounds to participate in drug trials.