Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: AC Immune, Actinium, Afimmune, Bridge, Clearside, Cytokinetics, Dr. Reddy's, Durect, Enterome, Genentech, J&J, Macrogenics, Morphic, Neximmune, Nicox, Oncimmune, Selecta, Sobi, Takeda, Verona, Vtv.
A new randomized controlled trial (RCT) of COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) treatment for moderately ill COVID-19 patients run at 39 Indian hospitals found no association between CCP therapy and reduced mortality or progression to severe disease.
Shares of Vaccinex Inc. fell to an all-time low on Sept. 22 after top-line results of the phase II trial, Signal, found its SEMA4D inhibitor, pepinemab, failed to improve measures of cognition in people with early manifest Huntington's disease following 18 months of treatment.
Positive top-line data from Blueprint Medicines Corp.’s phase I and II trials of Ayvakit (avapritinib) for treating advanced systemic mastocytosis (SM) are pushing the company to submit an sNDA before 2020 ends.
While the ultimate goal is increased diversity in clinical trials so as to improve health equity, a great start is making diversity a priority and a part of the research plan, Luther Clark, deputy chief patient officer at Merck & Co. Inc., said during an FDA Office of Minority Health and Health Equity webinar Sept. 22.
DUBLIN – Genentech has succeeded where Sanofi SA and its partner, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., have failed, in obtaining some sort of a positive signal from a clinical trial of an interleukin-6 (IL-6) inhibitor in COVID-19.
Amytrx Therapeutics Inc., of Nashville, Tenn., founded in 2014 but coming out of stealth now, is developing a therapeutic for treating multiple inflammatory, autoimmune and metabolic diseases.
Shares of Marseilles, France-based Innate Pharma SA took a hit recently after making known the adjustment of its lucrative deal with Astrazeneca plc for monalizumab in recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN), but opinions are divided on what it means.
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