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Conversations from ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 2024 

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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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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. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

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NRG announces £16m Series A for IND for Parkinson’s and ALS

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A pre-clinical pipeline of potential first-in-class brain-penetrant small molecule inhibitors of the mitochondrial permeability pore (mPTP) are to be developed. Inhibition of the mPTP has been shown, however, to protect neurons, reduce neuroinflammation, and extend survival in pre-clinical disease models.

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New pivotal data demonstrate clinical benefit of Roche’s glofitamab, a potential first-in-class bispecific antibody for people with aggressive lymphoma

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Glofitamab is being investigated in several clinical trials and explored in earlier lines of lymphoma treatment. This dual targeting activates and redirects a patient’s existing T-cells to engage and eliminate target B-cells by releasing cytotoxic proteins into the B-cells. After a median follow-up of 12.6 months, 39.4% of patients.

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The trends driving ELRIG Drug Discovery 2022

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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 Achilles’ heel of cancer

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Genoscience Pharma’s Philippe Halfon and Eric Raymond share their expertise on targeting the recycling of unsustainable production of palmitoylated cancer-associated proteins. Palmitoyl transferases are a zinc finger Asp-His-His-Cystype (ZDHHC) family containing 23 distinct mammalian genes (excluding ZDHHC10) that catalyse this reaction 1.

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Poxel Announces Additional Positive Phase 2a Results, and Phase 2b Plan for PXL770, an Oral First-in-Class AMPK Activator, in NASH

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PXL770 is a first-in-class, oral direct adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK) activator. Selected Clinical Parameters in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes at 12 Weeks. Selected Clinical Parameters in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes at 12 Weeks.

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