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Conversations from ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 2024 

Drug Discovery World

DDW’s Megan Thomas caught up with Oliver Rausch, Chief Scientific Officer at Storm Therapeutics, following the ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 2024, a global meeting focusing on promising new anticancer targets and agents, focusing on those in early phase clinical development. MT: What’s next for STORM’s research?

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The trends driving ELRIG Drug Discovery 2022

Drug Discovery World

The pandemic might have affected the number of clinical trials taking place for cell and gene therapies, with activity decreasing by around 15% compared to 2020, but major therapies such as Novartis’ gene therapy drug for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) Zolgensma still made it to market. . billion, compared to $19.9

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The Biotech Effect

Pharmaceutical Technology

“The inherent advantages of biopharma are that it allows you to pursue therapies against targets that are not small molecule therapies, for example by targeting protein-protein interactions and targeting GPCRs (G-protein coupled receptors),” he says. “Biotechnology has exploded across the industry. .

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Roche to present a broad range of data across multiple cancer types at the ESMO Virtual Congress 2020

The Pharma Data

New integrated analyses from our tumour agnostic Rozlytrek ® (entrectinib) clinical development programme. New and updated data from across our broad cancer portfolio including phase III results in breast, lung and prostate cancers. Join this event on Roche’s LinkedIn page here. Roche highlights featured at ESMO Virtual Congress 2020.

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Unlocking the potential of mRNA for the future treatment of rare diseases 

Drug Discovery World

With only 10% of these conditions indicated for an approved therapy, there is a sizable opportunity for scientists and companies to develop treatments for patients with no other options to turn to. Approximately 7,000 rare and ultra-rare diseases have been described, and yet, 90% have no approved therapeutic options 1.

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Can liquid biopsies transform precision medicine?

Drug Discovery World

Challenges in the Oncology Clinical Trials Space The oncology market is a key growth driver for the pharma industry, with global drug revenues expected to reach US$390 billion by 2027 and the annual number of new cancer cases set to grow from 18 to 27 million by 2040 1,2.

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Emergency Use Authorization request to FDA for VIR-7831 for the early treatment of COVID-19

The Pharma Data

Preclinical data suggest VIR-7831 targets a highly conserved epitope of the spike protein, which may make it more difficult for resistance to develop. About the VIR-7831 Clinical Development Programme. The interim analysis included 291 patients in the treatment arm and 292 patients in the placebo arm.