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Amtagvi (Lifileucel) Scores Landmark Win as First FDA-Approved T-Cell Therapy for a Solid Tumor

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Iovance Biotherapeutics’ Amtagvi (lifileucel) won US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval last week for the treatment of advanced melanoma, making it the first individualized tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy and the first T-cell therapy for a solid tumor to win US regulatory approval.

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Amgen’s Tarlatamab Gets FDA Priority Review for Small Cell Lung Cancer

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. “The FDA’s Priority Review designation for this application underscores the urgency to provide new treatment options for patients with advanced SCLC who have progressed following treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy,” said David M.

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World AIDS Day 2023: New and Promising Treatments for HIV/AIDS

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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, This marked the first FDA-approved injectable, complete regimen for HIV-infected adults, administered once a month.

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How will $41 million be used to fight chronic and age-related diseases? 

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Juvena Therapeutics, a biotechnology company scaling a computational platform to map the therapeutic potential of secreted proteins, has raised $41 million in an oversubscribed Series A, bringing its total funding to $50 million. This platform is applicable across a wide scope of disease indications.

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Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine Gets Recommended for FDA Emergency Use Authorization

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The Novavax COVID-19 vaccine was recommended for emergency use in adults by the World Health Organization (WHO) in December 2021 , and is approved in over 40 countries. The Novavax candidate NVX-CoV2373 is a protein-based vaccine developed using recombinant nanoparticle technology. The Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate.

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Novavax Announces COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Development Progress

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(Nasdaq: NVAX), a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today provided an update on its COVID-19 vaccine program. About NVX-CoV2373 NVX-CoV2373 is a protein-based vaccine candidate engineered from the genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease.

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Qalsody (Tofersen) Becomes First-of-Its-Kind Treatment for ALS

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Tofersen was discovered by Ionis Pharmaceuticals, and Biogen licensed tofersen from Ionis under a collaborative development and license agreement. While the exact causes of ALS are not fully understood, research suggests that the mutation of SOD1 may be linked to the development of the condition. What is SOD1 -ALS?