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Former AbbVie executive Severino joins Flagship-backed startup as CEO

Bio Pharma Dive

Severino left the pharma company in April after eight years as its chief scientist and then president. He'll lead Tessera Therapeutics, a well-funded genetic medicine startup.

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Italfarmaco’s Duvyzat Wins FDA Approval as First Nonsteroidal Treatment for All Genetic Variants of DMD

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Duvyzat, a histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor that works to reduce inflammation and muscle loss, is the first nonsteroidal drug approved to treat patients with all genetic variants of DMD. Progressive muscle weakness in the disease is caused by genetic mutations in the dystrophin gene that lead to a lack of functional dystrophin protein.

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Can genetic data be a magic bullet for drug R&D?

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Drug development has long been an issue for the pharma industry, due to the expense and the high failure rate of potential treatments. Ben Hargreaves finds that the vast amount of genetic data that exists today could help provide a faster, more targeted way of developing new drug candidates.

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How Pharma Companies Can – And Should – Improve Social Determinants of Health

Intouch Solutions

SDOH can drive as much as 80% of health outcomes 3,4 A person’s zip code, not their genetic code, is the stronger predictor of their health! 1 Why are SDOH important? 5 If this surprises you, consider: People in rural communities can have reduced access to healthcare services.

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Sophia Genetics launches AI tool to find COVID-19 ‘unknowns’

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Swiss medical data specialist Sophia Genetics has launched a platform that will sift through data generated at more than 1,000 hospitals around the world to try to work out how the COVID-19 pandemic will evolve in the coming months and years. The post Sophia Genetics launches AI tool to find COVID-19 ‘unknowns’ appeared first on.

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Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Market Size Expects Growth Owing to Increasing Prevalence, Influx of Pharma Companies and Novel Therapies

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The post Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Market Size Expects Growth Owing to Increasing Prevalence, Influx of Pharma Companies and Novel Therapies appeared first on DelveInsight Business Research.

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Tapping into pharma’s growing opportunities in digital health

Pharmaceutical Technology

In addition to doing more to proactively support healthcare providers and patients, digital health opportunities provide a chance for pharma companies to capture (and become a trusted source of) important real-world data about patients’ behaviour and their wider wellbeing. Breaking down the opportunities.