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Merck and Orna partner for RNA technology-based vaccines and therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

oRNA molecules have been demonstrated to possess increased stability in vivo compared to linear mRNA and can potentially create more quantities of therapeutic proteins within the body. . Merck will also make royalty payments on any approved products developed out of the partnership.

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Turning Science into Business: Inducing autophagy to treat disease

Drug Discovery World

DS: Samsara’s autophagy inducing candidate SAM001 will be the first agent of its class to enter clinical trials. It is the method for removing unwanted debris, e.g., old proteins, and breaking them down so their constituent parts can be used again. Could it be possible to prevent genetic diseases? What is autophagy?

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Gene Therapy and Pharmacokinetics

Camargo

When developing a clinical development program for these increasingly popular therapies, it is important that sponsors use modeling and pharmacokinetic (PK) analysis to evaluate parameters that can be measured while dosing with gene therapy drugs, to characterize exposure-response data and inform rational dosing.

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Sanofi wagers $400m on miRecule muscular dystrophy therapy

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The new drug candidate for FSHD will combine an RNA molecule from miRecule targeting double homeobox 4 (DUX4) – a protein that is mutated in FSHD – with a nanobody developed by Sanofi that targets muscle cells. billion deal in 2018. The aim will be to identify promising candidates in areas of “unmet patient need.”

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Biopharma Money on the Move: October 21-27

The Pharma Data

AavantiBio’s strategic partnership with University of Florida’s Powell Gene Therapy Center provide their foundational research in rare genetic disorders. The company’s lead program is aimed at Friedrich’s Ataxia, a rare inherited genetic disease that causes cardiac and central nervous system dysfunction. Be Biopharma .

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Biopharma Money on the Move: December 2 – 8

The Pharma Data

Now poised to advance a robust therapeutics pipeline to clinical development, Nuance will use the funds for ongoing R&D of existing products and business development of potential new assets. Through its Shielded Living Therapeutics platform, the company is developing functional cures for chronic diseases.

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FDA Action Alert: Supernus, Adamis, Alkermes, Amgen, BMS and Eiger

The Pharma Data

The submission includes data from the ENLIGHTEN clinical development program in schizophrenia, and pharmacokinetic (PK) bridging data comparing ALKS 3831 and Zyprexa (olanzapine), to support an indication for schizophrenia. Without Ionafarnib therapy, children with Progeria die of artheroschlerosis, but at an average age of 14.5

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