Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: 89bio, Aslan, Bausch Health, Kolon, Lilly, Nextcure, Prolynx.
Boston-based Pieris Pharmaceuticals Inc., during its March 12 earnings call, talked up gastric cancer prospect PRS-343, a 4-1BB/HER2 bispecific for HER2-positive solid tumors, which has turned up single-agent and checkpoint-combination antitumor activity.
PERTH, Australia – Sydney-based Kazia Therapeutics Ltd. reported interim data showing that lead candidate paxalisib (formerly GDC-0084) saw a positive overall survival signal in its phase II glioblastoma trial, and the company raised AU$7.2 million (US$4.4 million) days after the data were released.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Aridis, Bridge, Firstwave, Fujifilm, Kezar, Laurent, Mesoblast, Neoimmunetech, Otonomy, Sirnaomics, Tenax, Vigeo, Zelira.
Novavax Inc., one of the first biopharma companies to reveal its efforts to develop a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in January, has identified a prefusion protein for testing in an Australian phase I trial, slated to start in mid-May.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Addex, Aivita, Catalyst, Neuclone, Novotech, Obi, Trillium, Viriom.
Pluristem Therapeutics Inc., an Israeli regenerative medicine company, said several of the seven COVID-19 patients treated with its allogeneic placental expanded (PLX) cells have progressed from suffering severe symptoms of the disease to signs of clinical recovery, including respiratory improvements.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: AB Science, Bellus, Bicycle, Boston, Can-Fite, Crinetics, Inventiva, Kalvista, Kazia, Precision, Quantum, Seneca, Vaccinex.
Shares of Millendo Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:MLND) fell 70.1% to $1.45 on April 6 after a pivotal study of its experimental Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) therapy, livoletide, failed to show a statistically significant improvement in hyperphagia, or insatiable hunger, and food-related behaviors vs. placebo.