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New CEO Mortazavi takes UK biotech e-therapeutics into gene silencing

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UK biotech e-therapeutics has a new CEO, with executive chairman and former Silence Therapeutics chief Ali Mortazavi chosen to spearhead the next stage in the company’s development into gene silencing and other areas. He said: “These big pharma companies have every type of technology available to them.

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The trends driving ELRIG Drug Discovery 2022

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DDW Editor Reece Armstrong explores some of the trends that will be featured in sessions throughout ELRIG Drug Discovery 2022 and the news behind them. Cell and gene therapies. There’s no question that cell and gene therapies have emerged as some of the most promising and innovative medicines on the market. .

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High hopes as Inventiva takes NASH contender into phase 3

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Analysts are continuing to back Inventiva’s lanifibranor as a potential “best-in-class” drug for the fatty liver disease NASH, as the company prepares for the launch of a phase 3 trial in spring. A host of other pharma companies including Gilead, Novo Nordisk, Merck & Co are also developing potential NASH drugs.

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2020 review – Pharma’s progress outside of COVID-19

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The results also suggest further uses for the drug in early disease and more revenues to come from one of the company’s biggest success stories from the last decade. Unlike conventional cancer drugs Vitravki can be used in tumours with this mutation regardless of whether they are in the body.

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Unfolding The Folds Of Transthyretin

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Hereditary ATTR amyloidosis , also known as Familial ATTR, is an autosomal dominant disease and a result of mutations in the TTR gene, thus it is passed down from one generation to the next one. Gene-silencing Therapies. The present hATTR market comprises only a few approved drugs , which maintain the monopoly in the market.