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

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In rare disease trials, it’s not always feasible to choose clinically-relevant endpoints to measure the efficacy of a new therapeutic. IGF-1 is an acceptable surrogate endpoint in trials of growth hormone receptor agonists like Somavert, and is preferred for pediatric patient populations.

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

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Cue Biopharma is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based clinical-stage biotechnology company that is focused on developing injectable immune biologics using its proprietary Immuno-STAT (Selective Targeting and Alteration of T cells) platform. Cell-Based Immunotherapy vs. Immune Biologics. Immune system modulators (i.e.

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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

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Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in the confirmatory trials. This marks the first time an anti-PD-1 therapy has been approved in combination with anantibody-drug conjugate in the U.S. confirmatory trial for the accelerated approval.

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Advances in the Battle Against Autoimmune Disease

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SetPoint Medical received FDA Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) approval for a multicenter, double-blind, randomized, sham-controlled pivotal trial that will enroll up to 250 patients at 40 clinical trial sites in the U.S. Small Molecule Inhibitors. The maximum achievable ACR CRISS score is 1.0.

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

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In 2017, Opdivo was granted accelerated approval by the FDA as a single agent for patients with HCC who have been previously treated with sorafenib. The accelerated approval was based on tumor responses from the Phase 1/2 CheckMate -040 trial.

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

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Opdivo was first granted this indication in 2017 under the FDA’s accelerated approval program, making it the first immunotherapy agent to be approved for use in this setting. The accelerated approval was based on tumor responses from the Phase 1/2 CheckMate -040 trial.