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Biogen, Eisai Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab fast tracked by FDA

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The anti-amyloid drug, which also claimed a breakthrough tag from the FDA in July, is being developed for the treatment of early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. The $56,000-a-year price tag for the drug, which has now been cut in half in the US, also hasn’t helped the drugmakers make a case for Aduhelm with US payers.

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September 30, 2022: CTTI’s Digital Health Trials Hub Recommendations and Resources to Run Your Digital Health Trial (Marianne Chase, MGH, CTTI Team Lead, Jörg Goldhahn, ETH Zurich, CTTI Team Lead)

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Clinical Trial Transformation Initiative (CTTI); Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCTs); Digital endpoints; Developing novel endpoints. CTTI’s Decentralized Clinical Trials Project was a 1 year accelerated project to deliver updated recommendations and best practices for Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCTs). ETH Zurich. Key Points.

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Jolly Good/Teijin Pharma develop VR digital therapeutics for depression

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Technology firm Jolly Good and Teijin Pharma have begun a partnership to develop virtual reality digital therapeutics (VR DTx) for major depressive disorder. Jolly Good is a medical technology company that develops VR solutions and AI-based medical and welfare services that analyse user behaviour in the VR space.

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Grand Rounds July 15, 2022: Overview of Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) Public-Private Partnership and Lessons Learned (Stacey J. Adam, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

ACTIV was stood up in about a month, launching on April 17, 2020, to develop a coordinated research response to speed COVID-19 treatment and vaccine options. From this review, 11 ACTIV master protocols were developed. ACTIV, COVID-19, FNIH. Key Points. The normal timeline for public-private partnerships is around 9 months of planning.

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Rare Disease Spotlight – tracing the rise of orphan drug designations over almost 40 years

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This year has already been eventful when it comes to the development of therapies for rare diseases. Most, if not all, of these therapies used the FDA’s Orphan Drug Designation to aid their development plans. Additionally, pricing and access for rare disease therapies continue to be scrutinized closely.

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Leading innovators in peptide nano-particle conjugates for the pharmaceutical industry

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Instead, their evolution takes the form of an S-shaped curve that reflects their typical lifecycle from early emergence to accelerating adoption, before finally stabilising and reaching maturity. The company develops drugs and diagnostics to treat major diseases.

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Grand Rounds April 14, 2023: RECOVER in Action – Status of Clinical Trial Protocols (Kanecia Zimmerman, PhD, MD, MPH)

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RECOVER has used cohort data to identify major symptom clusters and develop 5 platform protocols that will investigator priority symptom clusters and their causes; test known and novel interventions across domains; and evaluate treatments to improve Long COVID symptoms.