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Tzield Gets FDA Nod to Become First Approved Drug to Delay Onset of Type 1 Diabetes

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Provention Bio’s Tzield (teplizumab) has won US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to delay the onset of stage 3 type 1 diabetes in adults and pediatric patients eight years of age and older who have stage 2 type 1 diabetes. In the US, it is estimated that 1.45 million people are currently living with type 1 diabetes.

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

Drug Discovery World

Secreted proteins are a proven class of biologics with largely underutilised therapeutic potential, despite the impact of FDA-approved biologics based on secreted proteins such as insulin, human growth hormone, and erythropoietin.

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Company Spotlight: Cue Biopharma Innovates in the Immunotherapy Space with its Immuno-STAT Platform

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Immune system modulators (i.e. receptors) of the immune system to enhance, or suppress immune responses. Cell-based immune therapies, including CAR-T cell therapy, have had some marked success, particularly in hematological cancers such as acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL). Nature by Design.

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Surrogate Endpoints: How to Choose the Best One for Your Rare Disease Trial

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Acromegaly Surrogate Endpoint: Serum growth hormone and serum insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) are acceptable surrogate endpoints for acromegaly clinical trials involving somatostatin analogs such as octreotide, lanreotide and pasireotide. Nizoral is prescribed off-label, while the others are FDA approved.

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FDA Approves Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) in Combination With Padcev® (enfortumab vedotin-ejfv) for First-Line Treatment of Certain Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Urothelial Cancer

The Pharma Data

Immune-mediated adverse reactions, which may be severe or fatal, can occur in any organ system or tissue, can affect more than one body system simultaneously, and can occur at any time after starting treatment or after discontinuation of treatment. Initiate treatment with insulin as clinically indicated.

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Advances in the Battle Against Autoimmune Disease

The Pharma Data

In September, Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings announced topline results from its 52-week Phase III RESOLVE-1 study of lenabasum in patients with diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (SSc), a rare life-threatening multi-system autoimmune disease for which there are no FDA-approved treatments.

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Bristol Myers Squibb Statement on Opdivo® (nivolumab) Monotherapy Post-Sorafenib Hepatocellular Carcinoma U.S. Indication

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Opdivo is a programmed death-1 (PD-1) immune checkpoint inhibitor that is designed to uniquely harness the body’s own immune system to help restore anti-tumor immune response. By harnessing the body’s own immune system to fight cancer, Opdivo has become an important treatment option across multiple cancers.