The University of Oxford has begun recruiting for a phase I Ebola vaccine trial, with the first vaccinations based around the same technology as the university’s COVID-19 vaccine.
The FDA has taken a hands-off approach to general wellness products that take up residence in smartphones, but that doesn’t mean these products aren’t subject to regulatory drift.
Investors were thrilled when Roche Holding AG subsidiary Genentech Inc. and AC Immune SA reported top-line results from the Lauriet trial on Aug. 31, giving a positive jolt to AC Immune’s stock on the day of the announcement. At the Clinical Trials in Alzheimer’s Disease 2021 meeting, the reaction of the medical community was more skeptical.
Yumanity Therapeutics Inc. CEO Richard Peters said his firm is “in the driver’s seat” with regard to partnering options or going it alone, after YTX-7739 hit the primary endpoints in a phase Ib Parkinson’s disease (PD) study. Wall Street seemed less than certain about the success, knocking shares (NASDAQ: YMTX) down $2.83, or 33.4%, to close at $5.65.
Compass Pathways plc rolled out favorable top-line findings from the largest randomized, controlled, double-blind psilocybin therapy study ever completed, showing that COMP-360 at 25 mg yielded a highly statistically significant and clinically relevant reduction in symptom severity after three weeks in patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD)
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Data from Chinook Therapeutics Inc. from an ongoing phase I/II trial with BION-1301 in IgA nephropathy (IgAN) at the American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week, and from Vera Therapeutics Inc. with atacicept, set Wall Street abuzz about chances for the two compounds relative to each other.