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Italfarmaco’s Duvyzat Wins FDA Approval as First Nonsteroidal Treatment for All Genetic Variants of DMD

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Italy-based drugmaker Italfarmaco has won US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its oral medication Duvyzat (givinostat) for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in patients six years of age and older. Duvyzat received Priority Review, Orphan Drug and Rare Pediatric Disease designations from the FDA.

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Novavax Announces COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Development Progress

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(Nasdaq: NVAX), a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today provided an update on its COVID-19 vaccine program. About NVX-CoV2373 NVX-CoV2373 is a protein-based vaccine candidate engineered from the genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease.

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FDA approves Roche’s Evrysdi for use in babies under two months with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)

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More than 5,000 patients have now been treated worldwide with Evrysdi in clinical trials, compassionate use or real-world settings. Roche leads the clinical development of Evrysdi as part of a collaboration with the SMA Foundation and PTC Therapeutics. Food and Drug Administration in 2017.

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Handover of senior R&D roles at Merck continues, as Roy Baynes exits

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Merck & Co’s chief medical officer and head of clinical development Dr Roy Baynes has announced his retirement from the company to take up a new role alongside his former colleague Roger Perlmutter at biotech Eikon Therapeutics. billion last year.

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FDA Approves Zokinvy (lonafarnib) for Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome and Processing-Deficient Progeroid Laminopathies

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FDA Approves Zokinvy (lonafarnib) for Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome and Processing-Deficient Progeroid Laminopathies. Nasdaq:EIGR), focused on the development and commercialization of targeted therapies for serious rare and ultra-rare diseases, today announced that the U.S. PALO ALTO, Calif., ABOUT ZOKINVY (LONAFARNIB).

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4th RAS-Targeted Drug Development Summit

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Despite this, the first-ever FDA-approved KRAS G12C inhibitor has demonstrated that RAS is in fact druggable and that drugging this protein unlocks a world of successful therapeutic interventions. For decades, RAS has existed as an elusive therapeutic target, and drugging this high-value oncogene was deemed impossible.

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First UK patient joins Pfizer’s phase 3 DMD gene therapy trial

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There are already several drugs on the market to treat Duchenne, notably from Sarepta Therapeutics which has three FDA-approved drugs that use “exon skipping” technology. These allow the body to produce a correct version of the misfolded dystrophin protein that is the root cause of DMD.