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Grand Rounds January 12, 2024: Design and Implementation of a Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce Covid-19 Resources (Erin K. McCreary, PharmD, BCIDP)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The first monoclonal antibody (mABs) treatment for treatment of COVID-19 was approved in November 2020. UPMC built upon the success of the Remdesivir lottery and in December 2020, UPMC began infusing monoclonal antibodies across 45 UPMC locations. Many patients did not answer the phone.

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Sponsored content: Why choose Bethyl antibodies for your R&D

Drug Discovery World

For over 50 years, Bethyl Laboratories (now a Fortis Life Sciences brand) has been dedicated to improving lives by supporting scientific discovery through qualified antibody products and custom services. All of our antibodies are highly validated using six pillars of validation, meaning that our antibodies do what we say they’ll do.

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Patent wars: what’s behind Amgen’s possible win over Sanofi at the US Supreme Court

Pharmaceutical Technology

The patent battle between Amgen and Sanofi over their cholesterol-lowering antibodies has divided big pharma in the past months. Both drugs are monoclonal antibodies that inhibit the protein PCSK9. Both drugs come with a high price tag. To an extent, the challenge here lies in the nature of antibodies, says Contreras.

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Almirall and IRB Barcelona team up to tackle skin disease

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The hope is that they will harness and re-programme natural cellular mechanisms to selectively remove the disease driving proteins from human tissues, working by boosting interactions – gluing – between therapeutically relevant proteins and the machinery used by cells to naturally tag and destroy proteins.

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Roche’s Early Alzheimer’s Blood Test Gets FDA Breakthrough Device Designation

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Previously, Roche secured an FDA breakthrough tag for another one of its Alzheimer’s blood tests that detects levels of pTau-181 and ApoE4 (apolipoprotein e4). However, the guidance doesn’t say whether it could serve as a study’s primary endpoint on its own.

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After a slow start for expensive CAR-T therapies, drug developers revisit oral therapies for blood cancer

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There’s been huge progress in treatments for blood cancer in recent years – but drawbacks of expensive CAR-T cell and injected antibody therapies have led drug developers to look at novel oral therapies as patient-friendly alternatives. Oral therapy data presented at ASH. CellCentric, a U.K-based

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Biogen’s Aducanumab Becomes First Drug Approved for Alzheimer’s in Nearly 20 Years Despite Controversy

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Aducanumab is a human IgG1 monoclonal antibody that binds to aggregated forms of amyloid beta to help reduce its buildup. Aducanumab Controversy and Price Tag. Biogen developed aducanumab in partnership with Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai. Evidence for aducanumab’s efficacy has been highly contested.

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