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News from AACR 2024: Sunday’s highlights

Drug Discovery World

Following this, Benjamin Cravatt, Professor and the Norton Gilula Chair in Biology and Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute, discussed activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) and its use in discovering drug candidates for cancer-relevant proteins.

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FDA authorizes software that can help identify prostate cancer

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration authorized marketing of software to help medical professionals who examine body tissues (pathologists) within the detection of areas that are suspicious for cancer as an adjunct (supplement) to the review of digitally-scanned slide images from prostate biopsies (tissue faraway from the body). Today, the U.S.

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Philips DreamStation 2 CPAP Machines Get FDA Safety Warning

XTalks

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting patients and healthcare providers of an emerging safety issue involving Philips Respironics’ DreamStation 2 CPAP machines used to treat or manage obstructive sleep apnea. It is used at home and in clinical settings.

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Evusheld long-acting antibody combination approved in the EU for pre-exposure prophylaxis (prevention) of COVID-19 in a broad population

The Pharma Data

There is a growing body of evidence from multiple independent in vitro and in vivo (animal model) studies supporting the potential of Evusheld to protect against the BA.1, There is a growing body of evidence from multiple independent in vitro and in vivo (animal model) studies supporting the potential of Evusheld to protect against the BA.1,

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FDA Approves Veklury (remdesivir) for the Treatment of COVID-19

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the antiviral drug Veklury (remdesivir) for the treatment of patients with COVID-19 requiring hospitalization. As an antiviral drug, Veklury works to stop replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. .–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct.

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A Final LDT Rule in April!? Will FDA be prepared?

FDA Law Blog

Mullen — With comments due on the proposed LDT rule last week, FDA wasted no time updating the Unified Agenda to indicate that a final rule may be published in April ( here ). We take this date with a grain of salt given the frequency with which these dates are missed and given the volume of comments filed. (It

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The Utility of Liquid Biopsy in Oncology Clinical Trials

XTalks

Liquid biopsy tests in oncology involve isolating entities such as circulating tumor cells (CTC), circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and tumor-derived exosomes. These tumor-derived entities are used to derive genomic and proteomic data. The same webinar held a Q&A session with Dr. Bahassi and two other experts from Medpace, Dr. Lyon L.