New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at The Liver Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, including: 89bio, Akero, Cymabay, Intercept, Protagonist, Sagimet, Surrozen, Versantis.
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer annual meeting, including: Antengene, Carisma, Celularity, CG Oncology.
Oncorus Inc. offered initial safety, tolerability and immune activation and clinical response data from its ongoing phase I trial with ONCR-177 at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) meeting. In the fully enrolled and completed surface lesion, dose-escalation part of the study, single-agent ONCR-177, an oncolytic herpes simplex virus for intratumoral injection, proved well-tolerated with no dose-limiting toxicities.
It’s been a decade since the first checkpoint inhibitors were approved, but the problem of low response rates remains in many forms of cancer. Highlight Therapeutics SL, of Valencia, Spain, hopes to change all that with an approach that primes the body to become more responsive to immunotherapies.
New and updated preclinical and clinical data presented by biopharma firms at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer annual meeting, including:: A2, Achilles, Actinium, Actym, Adaptimmune, Adicet, Affimed, Agenus, Anaveon, Apexigen, Aravive, Asher, Aulos, Bicara, Bolt, Candel, Celldex, Cellectis, Celyad, Cero, Checkmate, Codiak, Compugen, Cue, Editas, Elicio, F-star, G1, Grey Wolf.
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.
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.
PERTH, Australia – The basis around all investment is a narrative – a story – and the Australian biopharmaceutical industry has come together to develop a new narrative that shows it can generate long-term economic growth and social capital as the country emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Plants could be an alternative vaccine platform for both COVID-19 and future pandemics, shaking up a biologics sector that is currently mostly protein-based. South Korean company Bioapplications Inc., for example, is aiming to have a plant-derived booster shot for COVID-19 in the clinic in 2022.
PERTH, Australia – Investment in regenerative medicine in Australia in 2020 was AU$394.1 million (US295.8 million), accounting for nearly 23% of the overall capital invested in the Australian biotech sector, according to a new report published by Australia’s Regenerative Medicine Consortium.
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