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Decoding diseases: The AI renaissance in clinical trials

Drug Discovery World

Deepika Khedekar , Associate Centralized Clinical Lead at IQVIA, explains how artificial intelligence could make clinical trials more accurate, accessible and standardised. Tapping into the capabilities of AI One reason AI may accelerate clinical trials is its ability to rapidly process and analyse vast amounts of data.

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Symvivo’s Oral COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Clinical Trials

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Canadian clinical-stage biotech company Symvivo Corporation has developed an oral COVID-19 vaccine that entered clinical trials this week. The first healthy volunteer was dosed with the vaccine in Australia as part of the bacTRL-Spike COVID-19 Phase I clinical trial. COVID-19 Clinical Trials.

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The Utility of Liquid Biopsy in Oncology Clinical Trials

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Liquid biopsy tests in oncology involve isolating entities such as circulating tumor cells (CTC), circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and tumor-derived exosomes. Gleich, MD, FACS, Senior Vice President, Medical Department, and Dr. Christopher Huth, PhD, Senior Clinical Trial Manager, Clinical Trial Management.

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Rome Therapeutics raises $77m for junk DNA-targeting drugs

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Startup Rome Therapeutics has raised $77 million in second-round financing to help mine sequences of DNA – which were dismissed for years as ‘junk’ – for hidden treasure. Most drug discovery programmes target the roughly 2% of the human genome which encodes for protein.

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UK Pharma Company Scancell Selects COVID-19 Vaccine for Clinical Trials | 2020-12-21

The Pharma Data

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. . SN14 works by targeting the coronavirus’ nucleocapsid and spike proteins to prevent viral replication using the company’s ImmunoBody DNA vaccine technology.

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New facility boosts UK’s cell and gene therapy manufacturing capacity

Pharmaceutical Technology

In an email to Pharmaceutical Technology , an NHSBT spokesperson said the centre will “support early phase clinical trials and preclinical work, providing a route to eventual commercial scale production”. In the past, researchers have often had to seek help from outside the UK, thus delaying clinical trials and patient access.

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Nedisertib by Merck for Neuroendocrine Tumors: Likelihood of Approval

Pharmaceutical Technology

Attributes of the drug, company and its clinical trials play a fundamental role in drug-specific PTSR and likelihood of approval. The drug candidate targets DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK). The drug candidate is administered through the oral route in the form of capsule and tablet.