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Innovate UK funding for new precision cancer treatment technology

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Programmable Oligonucleotide Delivery System (PODS), developed by Sixfold Bioscience, is a versatile system which delivers short interfering RNA (siRNA) gene silencing cargo to specific cancer cells.

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Novo Nordisk snaps up RNAi partner Dicerna in $3.3bn takeover deal

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Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk must like what it has seen in its two-year-old alliance with gene-silencing specialist Dicerna Pharma – it has just agreed to acquire the biotech for $3.3 billion in cash. If approved, it could become a $500 million-a-year product, according to the company.

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Vevye: A New Cyclosporine Solution for Dry Eye Disease

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More Drugs for Dry Eye Disease Are on the Way Several other drugs have recently gained FDA approval or are currently in advanced stages of clinical development for the treatment of dry eye disease. One such approved medication is Miebo , an ophthalmic solution developed by Bausch + Lomb and Novaliq.

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Advances in Genetic Medicine May Be Outpacing Some Clinicians’ Understanding, But Pharmaceutical Marketers Can Do Much to Address the Problem

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those that modify the expression of an individual’s genes or repair abnormal genes) has entered clinical practice, including 11 RNA therapeutics, 2 in vivo gene therapies, and 2 gene-modified cell therapies. greater safety, transient and reversible effect on gene expression).

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The trends driving ELRIG Drug Discovery 2022

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This year’s event will cover some of the most exciting advancements in areas spanning screening, automation, high content imaging, disease models, cell and gene therapies and how innovation is being driven through partnerships and collaborations. Cell and gene therapies. In 2021, levels of investment hit an all-time high at $22.7

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2020 review – Pharma’s progress outside of COVID-19

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2020 also saw some of the first “tumour agnostic” cancer drugs get to market, with Bayer’s Vitravki (larotrectinib) getting funding in the UK for tumours with confirmed neurotrophic tyrosine receptor kinase (NTRK) gene fusions.”. It was the third approval from Alnylam’s pipeline of RNA interference therapeutics to make it to market.

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Positive Phase I results for RNAi therapeutic in hypertension

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Zilebesiran also demonstrated an acceptable safety profile supporting continued clinical development; the most frequent treatment-related adverse events were mild, transient injection-site reactions. The post Positive Phase I results for RNAi therapeutic in hypertension appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).