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A step closer to ‘clinical trial in a dish’ for Alzheimer’s  

Drug Discovery World

Grown in vitro, these cells can provide patient specific human brain models from a large cohort of AD patients – to create a ‘clinical trial in a dish’. has paved the way for the use of cell-based assays to investigate drug safety and efficacy, including this innovative ‘clinical trial in a dish’ approach.

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Informatics helps virtual biotech bring compound to clinical trial

Drug Discovery World

With no in-house laboratory space, the company works closely with multiple international contract research organisations (CROs), including Axxam, which carry out all of the Libra R&D, from compound screening assays, to in vivo pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic and ADME work, as well as in vitro and in vivo pre-clinical safety assessments.

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Nuvectis Pharma receives IND approval from FDA for NXP900

Pharmaceutical Technology

The approval also includes clearance for a Phase I clinical trial protocol of NXP900. Nuvectis now has two precision oncology, clinical-stage drug candidates, each with several potential opportunities in cancers that represent serious conditions of unmet medical need. “We

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How Much Do You Know About in silico Trials?

XTalks

Conventional in vitro and in vivo studies are used in the drug development pipeline. Take this quiz to test your knowledge about in silico trials! Register for this free, upcoming webinar to learn more about the benefits of implementing in silico clinical trials with mechanistic models for drug development.

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Receptor Occupancy Assays by Flow Cytometry: Benefits for Clinical Trials

XTalks

Flow cytometric receptor occupancy assays are being increasingly used in preclinical and clinical studies. Both the areas of drug development and clinical trials are increasingly using in vitro assays to help determine the efficacy of an investigational therapeutic. What is Flow Cytometry?

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US FDA approves Ellipses Pharma’s IND for AML therapy 

Pharmaceutical Technology

Ellipses Pharma stated that the dual FLT3 inhibition and Aurora kinase demonstrated to overcome the acquired resistance to selectively inhibit FLT3 in vitro and in vivo. According to the company, approximately one-third of AML patients are diagnosed with FLT3 mutations related to a higher relapse risk and poor clinical outcomes.

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High risk, high reward – the future of CAR-T therapy in CLL

Pharmaceutical Technology

In 2010, two patients with end-stage refractory chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) were administered Novartis’ autologous anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy, Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel), as part of a Phase I trial.

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