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GSK’s results tease survival benefit trend with Jemperli for endometrial cancer

Pharmaceutical Technology

On March 27, researchers presented new interim results from the Phase III RUBY clinical trial that could indicate a new standard of care for endometrial cancer treatment. GSK’s trial evaluated the programmed death receptor-1 (PD-1)-blocking antibody Jemperli (dostarlimab). GlobalData is the parent company of Pharmaceutical Technology.

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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. Much of this repeatome is thought to derive from viruses that embedded in our DNA millions of years ago.

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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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INOVIO Announces Publication of Phase 1 Data from its COVID-19 DNA Vaccine Candidate, INO-4800 in The Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine

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Joseph Kim , President and CEO of INOVIO, said, “We are very pleased to share peer-reviewed Phase 1 clinical data for INO-4800 published in The Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine , and are grateful for the support of all participants and investigator staff involved in the clinical trial.” . PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. ,

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Seqster launches new cloud version of virtual trial data tool

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Healthcare technology firm Seqster has introduced a new version of its service that aims to help pharma companies work with patients’ data while on virtual clinical trials. service will allow secure access to real-world data from electronic health records (EHRs), DNA analysis and fitness wearables. The new Seqster 7.1

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Yapan Bio expands to a new process development facility in India 

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Yapan Bio has expanded its capabilities with a new process development facility at Genome Valley, Hyderabad, India, which has enhanced its ability to support end-to-end development and manufacturing of RNA, DNA and gene therapy products starting from plasmids. .