Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Lu Rahman selects some of the year’s interesting and noteworthy advances in cancer research drug discovery and development. As always, a year within cancer drug discovery and development brings with it significant breakthroughs, and 2023 has been no exception. Research into new cancer drugs remain strong.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 28, 2024

A new drug could prevent sepsis-related organ failure and death by restoring the health of a patient’s blood vessels. Researchers from The University of Queensland and the Queensland Children’s Hospital (QCH) have successfully tested the first-in-class drug in mice.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 18, 2023

A clinical trial of an experimental universal influenza vaccine developed by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) Vaccine Research Center (VRC) has begun enrolling volunteers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The trial will enrol up to 50 healthy volunteers aged 18 to 49.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 19, 2023

OncoResponse has secured a $13m grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) and raised an additional $14m in funding from investors for advancing OR502 to investigational new drug (IND) and clinical trials. It is planned to enter clinical studies this year. ”

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 9, 2023

Jantzen Sperry , PhD, Director of Scientific Operations at Certis Oncology looks at how the adoption of orthotopic PDX models can elevate the impact of cancer research and improve translation in oncology drug development. Fewer than 5% of oncology drugs that enter clinical trials in the US receive US FDA approval.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 23, 2022

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for Merck's (MSD outside the US and Canada) pneumococcal 15-valent conjugate vaccine, Vaxneuvance, for use in children aged six weeks to 17 years. The post US FDA grants approval for Merck’s pneumococcal vaccine for children appeared first on Pharmaceutical Technology.

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Drug Discovery World

JUNE 28, 2023

MinervaX, a Danish biotechnology company developing a novel, prophylactic vaccine against Group B Streptococcus (GBS), has completed enrolment and initial dosing in its Phase I clinical vaccine trial in older adults. The trial is taking place at CEVAC (Centre for Vaccinology), Ghent University, Belgium.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 10, 2023

Influenza vaccine 2 is under clinical development by Shanghai Institute of Biological Products and currently in Phase I for Pandemic Influenza. According to GlobalData, Phase I drugs for Pandemic Influenza does not have sufficient historical data to build an indication benchmark PTSR for Phase I. Buy the report here.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 10, 2023

Influenza vaccine 2 is under clinical development by Shanghai Institute of Biological Products and currently in Phase I for Pandemic Influenza. According to GlobalData, Phase I drugs for Pandemic Influenza does not have sufficient historical data to build an indication benchmark PTSR for Phase I. Buy the report here.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 20, 2023

Dr Paula Moran, Dr Kiri Granger, Dr J Mark Treherne , and Dr Jenny Barnett explore the effects of long Covid-19 symptoms and what the opportunities are for drug developers working to treat post-Covid-19 cognitive impairment. developed dementia over the subsequent two years (vs. Notably, among over-65s who had had Covid-19, 4.5%

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 5, 2023

Kid EDV is under clinical development by ImmunityBio and currently in Phase I for Pediatric Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma. According to GlobalData, Phase I drugs for Pediatric Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma does not have sufficient historical data to build an indication benchmark PTSR for Phase I.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Led by Feinstein Institutes researcher Haichao Wang, the new study focuses on detecting protein mediators that might contribute to uncontrolled immune responses to lethal infections. Feinstein Institutes president and CEO Kevin Tracey said: “The first step in drug discovery is identifying molecular targets. “Dr

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 3, 2023

A monoclonal antibody to prevent Covid-19 in vulnerable patients, AZD3152, has entered clinical trials less than 12 months after discovery. . Hugo Fry, CEO of RQ Bio, comments: “We’re delighted that one of our discovered antibodies is now at the core of an innovative AstraZeneca investigational medicine reaching clinical trials.” .

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Camargo

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The development of biological products (or biologics) represents a major advancement in modern medicine, enabling the treatment of patients with many illnesses where no other therapeutics were previously available. One common characteristic for most if not all biologics is the triggering of an immune response or anti-drug antibodies.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 26, 2023

A Cancer Research UK-funded clinical trial has shown, for the first time, that a new class of antibody could benefit cancer patients whose existing treatments have stopped working. The drug, MOv18 IgE, was developed by researchers at King’s College London.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 20, 2020

UK drug developer Scancell said it has chosen a COVID-19 vaccine candidate, SN14, from more than a dozen potential products to advance to a clinical trial. . In October, Scancell signed a manufacturing deal for SN14 with Cobra Biologics, a Cognate BioServices subsidiary, ahead of a planned phase 1 trial in 2021.

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Pfizer

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

These study participants, representing approximately half of the total recruited participants in the trial, are being discontinued following violations of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) at certain clinical trial sites run by a third-party clinical trial site operator.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Amgen recently reported that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given priority review status to its drug candidate, tarlatamab, intended for the treatment of small-cell lung cancer (SCLC). Reese, executive vice president of Research and Development at Amgen, in the company’s press release.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 15, 2024

Researchers have developed a new vaccine technology that can provide protection against a broad range of coronaviruses with potential for future disease outbreaks – including ones we don’t know about yet. The study demonstrated that the new vaccine raises a broad immune response, even in mice that were pre-immunised with SARS-CoV-2.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Cellular Immunotherapy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer is under clinical development by Iovance Biotherapeutics and currently in Phase II for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Attributes of the drug, company and its clinical trials play a fundamental role in drug-specific PTSR and likelihood of approval.

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VirTrial

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Members of the science and medicine team have additionally worked on hundreds of other vaccine trials involving hundreds of thousands more volunteers. While vaccine development has come a long way, there is much to accomplish in the future. Today, smallpox is the only human disease to have been eradicated.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 6, 2024

In this article, DDW’s Diana Spencer highlights several prominent hotspots that are taking the lead on advancing European drug discovery and development. billion on R&D during 2021, with Germany and Switzerland being the biggest contributors, and around one fourth of clinical trials worldwide were performed in Europe 1.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The latest development was based on findings from a Phase II clinical trial of the vaccine in South Africa as well as from the Phase III Prevent-19 trial in the US and Mexico. Currently, trials are underway to evaluate the immunogenicity and safety of the vaccine administered as a heterologous booster.

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pharmaphorum

APRIL 8, 2022

Jazz Pharma has bolstered its pipeline of cancer drugs through a $1.3 The Dublin-based pharma is paying $15 million upfront for global rights to Werewolf’s WTX-613, a prodrug of the cytokine interferon alfa-2b, which is still back n preclinical development and due to start its first clinical trials next year.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

AUGUST 18, 2022

The company sought expanded provisional approval for the booster shots based on findings from its Phase II clinical trial carried out in Australia, another Phase II trial in South Africa and the COV-BOOST trial sponsored by the UK.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Now, he leads Whitelab Genomics as its artificial intelligence (AI) platform powers the development of genomic therapies – an emerging field in which genetic sequences are injected into cells to target and repair damaged genes. We have been very impressed by their vision and the relevance of their platform.”.

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Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 2, 2022

Biotechnology company Calidi Biotherapeutics has announced that a Phase I US clinical trial will use the company’s licensed oncolytic virotherapy platform NeuroNova to deliver an oncolytic adenovirus selectively to tumor sites in patients with recurrent high-grade glioma. . less than one year. Camaisa. .

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The Pharma Data

APRIL 15, 2022

Food and Drug Administration in the coming days with additional submissions to other regulatory agencies worldwide to follow. The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, which is based on BioNTech’s proprietary mRNA technology, was developed by both BioNTech and Pfizer. About the Phase 1/2/3 Trial in Children. Pfizer Inc.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Merck has exercised its option to jointly develop and commercialise personalised cancer vaccine (PCV) mRNA-4157/V940 pursuant to the terms of its existing collaboration and license agreement with Moderna. . The post Merck and Moderna to jointly develop personalised cancer vaccine appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Replicate Bioscience has shared positive results from the Phase I trial of RBI-4000, its srRNA-based rabies vaccine. In this clinical trial, evaluating safety and immunogenicity of RBI-4000 , participants received one or two doses of srRNA vaccine at low doses (0.1mcg, 1mcg or 10mcg).

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Global entities such as the WHO, the Global Fund and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) have developed comprehensive strategies aligned with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 3.3, These findings signify a significant step forward in the development of AGT103-T as a potential gene therapy for HIV.

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Provention Bio’s Tzield (teplizumab) has won US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to delay the onset of stage 3 type 1 diabetes in adults and pediatric patients eight years of age and older who have stage 2 type 1 diabetes. In clinical trials, the treatment delayed stage 3 disease onset for about two years compared with the placebo.

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Camargo

JULY 27, 2021

How and When to Incorporate PK Design into Your Gene Therapy Development Plan. While most gene therapy clinical studies are ongoing, a number of products are in advanced clinical development, and several are approved by FDA. PK Planning for Gene Therapy Development Programs. Gene Therapy Definition.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Dr Stephen Barat, Senior Vice President and Therapeutics Division Head at HTG Molecular Diagnostics tells DDW how transcriptomics is driving drug discovery and precision medicines. DDW: What are some of the challenges in early-stage drug discovery and development? DDW: Could you explain the process of transcriptomics?

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 17, 2023

Paul Denslow , CEO, Intus Bio, discusses how a new approach to tracking gut bacteria can revolutionse our understanding of the microbiome and bring about new discoveries for therapeutics. It’s a long-held doctrine that there’s no effective method to track the microbiome during drug research and development.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 30, 2023

Likang Life Sciences has been granted implied approval by China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for the clinical trial of its innovative personalised neoantigen-targeted vaccine LK101 Injection for advanced solid tumours. Vaccines predicated on neoantigens therefore elicit truly tumour-specific T cell responses.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A clinical-stage biopharmaceutical firm, Liminatus focuses on the development of new therapies for cancer that utilises the immune system of the body to detect and fight cancer cells. The GCC Vaccine is being analysed in Phase II clinical trials.

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