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The use of genomic profiling testing to improve oncology care

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This reach allows us to support 82% of the novel drugs and therapeutic products approved by the US FDA, including 63% of those specific to oncology,” Reddy states. Everyone’s genetic makeup differs, and each person’s cancer experience is unique to them – how cancer develops, how fast it spreads, which drugs it responds to, and more.

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ImmunityBio’s hAd5 T-Cell COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Shows Complete Protection of Airways in Non-Human Primates

The Pharma Data

The vaccine targeted both the inner nucleocapsid (N) and the outer spike (S) proteins of the virus to maximize the immune response. ImmunityBio’s platform is based on the foundation of three separate modalities: antibody cytokine fusion proteins, synthetic immunomodulators, and second-generation human adenovirus (hAd5) vaccine technologies.

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Can liquid biopsies transform precision medicine?

Drug Discovery World

With oncology accounting for a third of pharma’s product pipeline, significant challenges include fierce competition, high research and development costs over, 10-15 years for clinical development, and pressures to rapidly meet the demand for new treatments 2-4. 21 In a recent publication, Silvestri et al.,

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What Challenges Is the Vaccine Industry Facing When Dealing with the Flu and COVID-19?

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved new updated COVID-19 vaccines from both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna that target the Omicron XBB.1.5 In May, the FDA approved GSK’s Arexvy as the first RSV vaccine, which was shortly followed by the approval of Pfizer’s RSV vaccine Abrysvo.

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First Anti-PD-1 in Combination With Chemotherapy Approved for the First-Line Treatment of Esophageal and GEJ Carcinoma, Regardless of Histology or PD-L1 Expression

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“There have been few advances in improving survival outcomes in the first-line treatment setting for esophageal cancer over the last three decades,” said Dr. Roy Baynes, senior vice president and head of global clinical development, chief medical officer, Merck Research Laboratories. “We 1] as determined by an FDA-approved test.

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Opdivo (nivolumab) Plus Yervoy (ipilimumab) for the Treatment of Mismatch Repair Deficient or Microsatellite Instability–High Metastatic Colorectal Cancer After Prior Chemotherapy

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Mismatch repair deficiency (dMMR) occurs when the proteins that repair mismatch errors in DNA replication are missing or non-functional, leading to microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) tumors. To date, the Opdivo clinical development program has treated more than 35,000 patients.

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Pfizer and BioNTech Initiate Phase 1 Study of Single Dose mRNA-Based Combination Vaccine Candidate for Influenza and COVID-19

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The vaccine candidate combines Pfizer’s quadrivalent modRNA-based influenza vaccine candidate, qIRV (22/23), which is currently in Phase 3 clinical development , and Pfizer and BioNTech’s authorized Omicron-adapted bivalent COVID-19 BNT162b2 (Original/Omicron BA.4/BA.5) COMIRNATY® (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA). INDICATION.