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Nektar lifted by Merck alliance for bempeg, new trial funding

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The post Nektar lifted by Merck alliance for bempeg, new trial funding appeared first on. The deals with Merck and SFJ are an endorsement of the bempeg programme after initial results from mid-stage studies with the drug generated some lacklustre results in melanoma and triple negative breast cancer (TNBC).

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Government of Canada invests in clinical trial development in Canada through the Clinical Trials Fund

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On June 22, 2022, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research ( CIHR ) announced the launch of the Clinical Trials Fund ( CTF ), which will inject funding into Canada’s clinical trials environment. The Clinical Trials Fund.

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Reducing lung transplant rejection aim of clinical trial funded with $22 million grant

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Louis and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston have received a seven-year, $22 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help lead a multicenter clinical trial evaluating whether a novel immunosuppressant can […].

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STAT+: ‘A blind eye’: NIH fails to ensure clinical trial results are reported and funds researchers who don’t file results

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National Institutes of Health failed to ensure that results of roughly half of clinical trials funded by the agency — both those conducted by its own scientists and outside researchers — were reported to a federal database during a recent two-year period, a new government review has found.

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STAT+: Lawmakers push NIH to disclose steps being taken to ensure clinical trial results are reported

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National Institutes of Health will take to ensure that results of clinical trials funded by the agency — both those conducted by its own scientists and outside researchers — are reported to a federal database. A group of Republican senators is demanding to know what steps the U.S.

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STAT+: Pallone pushes NIH and FDA to disclose steps being taken to ensure clinical trial results are reported

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A Democratic lawmaker is demanding to know what steps the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health are taking to ensure that results of clinical trials funded by the government are reported to a federal database. In a letter sent on Thursday, U.S. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.)

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Oral immunotherapy induces remission of peanut allergy in some young children

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A clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health has found that giving peanut oral immunotherapy to highly peanut-allergic children ages 1 to 3 years safely desensitized most of them to peanut and induced remission of peanut allergy in one-fifth. The immunotherapy consisted of a daily oral dose of peanut flour for 2.5