Drug Discovery World

MARCH 4, 2024

In an early phase clinical trial, a combination of antibody-based medications targeting the immune system generated promising safety data and anti-tumour activity in individuals with advanced cancer. Both medications tested in the trial support immune responses against tumour cells.

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XTalks

MAY 4, 2023

Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder that is triggered by the consumption of gluten, a protein found in barley, wheat and rye. When a person with celiac disease eats something that contains gluten, their immune system attacks their small intestine, damaging the lining and interfering with the absorption of nutrients from food.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 18, 2023

A clinical trial of an experimental universal influenza vaccine developed by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) Vaccine Research Center (VRC) has begun enrolling volunteers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The trial will enrol up to 50 healthy volunteers aged 18 to 49.

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Cloudbyz

MARCH 5, 2024

In the intricate dance of drug discovery and development, two protagonists emerge as the cornerstones of modern medicine: biologics and small molecules. Biologics: Biologics are large, complex molecules, often proteins, that are produced using living cells. The production process is often less complex compared to biologics.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The first patients are now being treated as part of a first-in-human trial of a vaccine, administered as a nasal spray, that aims to slow down the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Meanwhile researchers in Japan are also running preclinical studies of an intranasal tau vaccine.

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Drug Discovery World

JUNE 28, 2023

MinervaX, a Danish biotechnology company developing a novel, prophylactic vaccine against Group B Streptococcus (GBS), has completed enrolment and initial dosing in its Phase I clinical vaccine trial in older adults. The trial is taking place at CEVAC (Centre for Vaccinology), Ghent University, Belgium.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Replicate Bioscience has shared positive results from the Phase I trial of RBI-4000, its srRNA-based rabies vaccine. In this clinical trial, evaluating safety and immunogenicity of RBI-4000 , participants received one or two doses of srRNA vaccine at low doses (0.1mcg, 1mcg or 10mcg).

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XTalks

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Amgen recently reported that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given priority review status to its drug candidate, tarlatamab, intended for the treatment of small-cell lung cancer (SCLC). It targets delta-like ligand 3 (DLL3), a protein usually found inside normal cells but abnormally present on the surface of SCLC cells.

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The Pharma Data

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

. AstraZeneca has confirmed that clinical trials assessing its Oxford University partnered coronavirus vaccine AZD1222 have resumed in the UK, following a green light by the Medicines Health Regulatory Authority (MHRA). Source link.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 20, 2020

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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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Currently in Phase 3 clinical testing in the United Kingdom for the prevention of COVID-19, NVX-CoV2373 is a recombinant protein vaccine adjuvanted with Novavax’ proprietary Matrix-M to enhance the immune response. NVX-CoV2373 contains purified protein antigen and can neither replicate, nor can it cause COVID-19.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 26, 2022

The FDA has placed a partial clinical fold on clinical trials of Gilead Sciences’ magrolimab, the centre piece of its $4.9 Gilead has been forced to pause recruitment into trials involving the combination while the safety signal is investigated, but subjects already enrolled can continue to be treated, according to a company statement.

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Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 3, 2023

Bimervax combines a part of the SARS-CoV-2 virus spike protein with an adjuvant. The vaccine demonstrated a strong immune response, and the most common side effects were mild, and self-resolved within a few days of vaccination. The post Bimervax Covid-19 vaccine authorised in UK appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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pharmaphorum

APRIL 8, 2022

Jazz Pharma has bolstered its pipeline of cancer drugs through a $1.3 The Dublin-based pharma is paying $15 million upfront for global rights to Werewolf’s WTX-613, a prodrug of the cytokine interferon alfa-2b, which is still back n preclinical development and due to start its first clinical trials next year.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 15, 2021

Food and Drug Administration were based on mRNA, more conventional protein-based vaccines have also shown promise in clinical trials. Most train the immune system to recognize the RBD, a peptide that is the portion of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that binds to the ACE-2 receptor on host cell surfaces.

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XTalks

MAY 2, 2024

In 2023, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a record-breaking 61 drugs, the most in history. Since January, the FDA has already signed off on more than a dozen novel drugs. The agency is reviewing applications for several highly anticipated drugs for approval in 2024.

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Advarra

JANUARY 11, 2024

Adoptive T Cell therapies, therapeutic antibodies, and immunomodulatory proteins represent just some of the potentially beneficial treatment strategies for successful mRNA cancer trials. One strategy proposed the use of synthetic mRNA or modified mRNA analogs, which can enhance the stability and protein expression of mRNA.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 24, 2023

Efti As a first-in-class soluble LAG-3 protein targeting MHC Class II ligands on antigen-presenting cells (APC), efti is positioned to improve clinical outcomes from standard-of-care chemotherapy. Its activation of APCs (e.g., The first patient is expected to be enrolled early in the second quarter of the 2023 calendar year.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Repeat sequences aren’t involved in expressing proteins so have been generally under-studied by researchers, but there is increasing evidence that some human traits and diseases may be associated with mutations within them. Most drug discovery programmes target the roughly 2% of the human genome which encodes for protein.

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The Pharma Data

APRIL 15, 2022

Food and Drug Administration in the coming days with additional submissions to other regulatory agencies worldwide to follow. About the Phase 1/2/3 Trial in Children. Additional children have been enrolled in all age groups following study amendments and the trial currently includes more than 10,000 children. Pfizer Inc.

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In 2022, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted approval to the medication Sunlenca (lenacapavir) for adults living with multi-drug resistant HIV-1 infection. Developed by Gilead, Sunlenca is the first drug in a novel class known as capsid inhibitors to receive FDA approval for treating HIV-1.

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XTalks

JUNE 15, 2022

Last week, Novavax announced that it received positive feedback from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) regarding the safety and efficacy of its COVID-9 vaccine (NVX-CoV2373). protein that triggers the immune system to generate antibodies against the virus.

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Camargo

JULY 27, 2021

When developing a clinical development program for these increasingly popular therapies, it is important that sponsors use modeling and pharmacokinetic (PK) analysis to evaluate parameters that can be measured while dosing with gene therapy drugs, to characterize exposure-response data and inform rational dosing.

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XTalks

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced that its bispecific antibody Talvey (talquetamab-tgvs) received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval as a fifth-line treatment for adult patients with heavily pretreated multiple myeloma.

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 23, 2021

US biotech Aura Biosciences has closed an oversubscribed financing, raising $80 million to help take its lead virus-like drug conjugate (VDC) for a cancer that affects the eye into late-stage development. The post Aura raises $80m to develop its virus-like cancer drugs appeared first on.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The University of Queensland is set to take a second-generation molecular clamp vaccine to a proof-of-concept human trial. . million to support further development of the re-engineered technology for use in the global response to future disease outbreaks. . Clamp technology . The University of Queensland. .

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 11, 2024

We have noted that cancer patients can develop powerful anti-tumour immune responses that can result in complete cure of the disease and we call these patients ‘elite responders’. By understanding what triggers the adaptive immune response in “elite responders” we have identified new targets and therapeutic antibodies.

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XTalks

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

In rare disease trials, it’s not always feasible to choose clinically-relevant endpoints to measure the efficacy of a new therapeutic. Surrogate endpoints were used as the basis for approval of 45 percent of new drugs reviewed by the FDA between 2010 and 2012. What Is a Surrogate Endpoint?

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Leap Therapeutics will get a swift FDA review for its lead drug DKN-01 for a form of gastric and gastroesophageal junction (G/GEJ) cancer after being awarded fast-track status by the regulator. In animal models, neutralising DKK1 has been shown to activate an innate immune response against malignant cells.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 31, 2021

Adjuvanted S-Trimer COVID-19 vaccine candidates demonstrated favorable safety and tolerability profiles and strong neutralizing immune responses in a phase 1 trial. The phase 1 clinical trial was a randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study in 150 adult and elderly participants.

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XTalks

AUGUST 8, 2022

The acquisition will allow Gilead to have MiroBio’s proprietary discovery platform and their pipeline of immune checkpoint agonists. MiroBio currently has four different potential drug candidates and multiple early-stage assets in the research phase. PD-1 is a potent immune inhibitory receptor.

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pharmaphorum

JULY 20, 2021

The EMA has kicked off a rolling review of a COVID-19 vaccine from Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline, which started a 35,000-patient phase 3 trial in May. The phase 3 trial being run in support of approval is using a two-shot regimen, with the first dose targeting the original SARS-CoV-2 virus and the second targeting beta (B.1.351)

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Pfizer

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

These study participants, representing approximately half of the total recruited participants in the trial, are being discontinued following violations of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) at certain clinical trial sites run by a third-party clinical trial site operator.

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STAT News

MARCH 6, 2023

Unlike most people who receive medications yet to be cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, none of these patients is getting the vaccines as part of a clinical trial. Neoantigen vaccines are designed to target certain proteins called neoantigens on tumor cells.

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XTalks

APRIL 26, 2021

After years of disappointing malaria vaccine trials, a malaria shot developed by researchers at the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford has demonstrated an unprecedentedly high efficacy of 77 percent, and may be the magic bullet the world has been waiting for against the deadly disease. Malaria Vaccine Phase II Trial.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 5, 2023

For example, if a patient’s tumour has a particular protein present, called a checkpoint protein, this will reduce the response of T-cells. Of course, if a patient’s tumour does not have this protein, then this type of treatment won’t be effective. Biography Mark Garner received his Ph.D. The Lancet 2022.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 10, 2023

Since then, the two partners have developed multiple AI-based applications including a platform for selecting neoantigens for use in individualised cancer vaccines and an early warning system for high risk SARS-CoV-2 variants based on how well they can evade the immune system and their transmissibility.

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