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Scientists create compound that can block cancer metastasis

Drug Discovery World

Scientists from the Chemistry and Biochemistry Departments at the University of Liverpool and Nanjing Medical School in China have discovered a possible way to block proteins that cause metastasis. Researchers from the University of Liverpool, UK, have created a biomedical compound that has the potential to stop the spread of breast cancer.

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Lumos Pharma’s Patient-Centric Strategy for Rare Disease Drug Development

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Pediatric growth hormone deficiency (PGHD) is one such condition, affecting a child’s growth and development. This rare endocrine disorder, characterized by inadequate secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland, has profound impacts on physical and sometimes cognitive development.

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ARVINAS AND PFIZER ANNOUNCE GLOBAL COLLABORATION TO DEVELOP AND COMMERCIALIZE PROTAC® PROTEIN DEGRADER ARV-471

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(NYSE: PFE) today announced a global collaboration to develop and commercialize ARV-471, an investigational oral PROTAC® (PROteolysis TArgeting Chimera) estrogen receptor protein degrader. ER is the primary driver of hormone receptor (HR) positive breast cancer, which is the most common breast cancer subtype.

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Sym-021 by Les Laboratoires Servier for Solid Tumor: 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 therapeutic candidate targets immune checkpoint, programmed cell death protein 1 (PD1). It is administered as an intravenous infusion. It is developed based on sympress platform technology.

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Targeted breast cancer drug extends lives of patients in Phase III trial

Drug Discovery World

A new type of targeted medicine has shown ‘remarkable’ benefits for patients with advanced breast cancer in a major Phase III clinical trial. . The drug capivasertib combined with hormone therapy doubled the time it took for cancer to progress in people with advanced forms of the most common type of breast cancer. .

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Sanofi snaps up acne vaccine developer Origimm Bio

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The French group said that ORI-001, a vaccine based on recombinant proteins from the Cutibacterium acnes (formerly Propionibacterium acnes ) bacterium that is often found in acne lesions, could be the first ever vaccine for the condition.

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Novel hot flushes treatment approved in UK and EU

Drug Discovery World

Despite VMS, or hot flushes, being a common symptom of menopause, until now, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was the only treatment. Lack of scientific advancement Before menopause, there is a balance between oestrogen, and the protein neurokinin B (NKB), which regulates the brain’s temperature control centre.