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Oct 10, 2019

The US FDA has approved Rybelsus (semaglutide) oral tablets to improve blood sugar in adult patients with Type II Diabetes. Rybelsus is an oral glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) receptor protein treatment which has been approved after 15 years of the approval first GLP-1 agonist. GLP-1 is a hormone found in insuffi...

Oct 03, 2019

Roche’s Genentech has presented positive Phase III results from the IMvigor130 study aimed at studying Tecentriq (atezolizumab) tested in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy. The drug, Tecentriq, combined with Pt-based chemotherapy showed a noteworthy improvement in patients with untreated advanced bla...

Oct 01, 2019

Stipe Therapeutics (STipe) has raised USD 22 Million to move forward its clinical development of novel candidates to target intracellular protein-protein interactions of the STING Pathway. The financing round was led by Sunstone Life Science Ventures Fund IV, Novo Holdings, Arix Bioscience, and Wellington Partne...

Sep 26, 2019

European Commission Grants Orphan Drug Designation for Nirogacestat for the Treatment of Soft Tissue Sarcoma. Nirogacestat is a selective oral small molecule, gamma-secretase inhibitor under development by SpringWork Therapeutics. Currently, in Phase III development, the drug is investigated for the treatment o...

Sep 17, 2019

AlivaMab Discovery Services (ADS) has announced an antibody discovery agreement against multiple targets with Janssen Research & Developments. AlivaMab, a pharmaceutical providing fully human therapeutic antibody discovery services, will render its therapeutic antibody candidates, its clinical expertise and...

Sep 12, 2019

Mallinckrodt has announced to sell its Canadian drug manufacturing BioVectra Inc. to a Miami-based private equity firm, an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital for approximately USD 250 Million. The agreement included a fixed amount of USD 175 Million, with an upfront amount of USD 135 Million, a long term payment of US...

Aug 22, 2019

Themis Bioscience forms an Exclusive License and Research Alliance with MSD to Develop Vaccines Themis Bioscience, a vaccine development firm, has collaborated with the MSD, a trademark company of the Merck. The agreement is an exclusive license with MSD for the discovery and development of measles vaccines to f...

Aug 13, 2019

GNA Biosolutions nets USD 13.5 Million in a Series C Funding GNA Biosolutions has secured USD 13.5 Million completing its all the rounds of financing. GNA Biosolutions GmbH, a Germany-based molecular diagnostics company has been able to successfully secure IVD-CE marking of its first point-of-care (POC) molecul...

Jul 02, 2019

Pfizer’s Zirabev gets FDA nod for the treatment of five types of cancer The US FDA has approved Zirabev (bevacizumab-bvzr), a drug developed by Pfizer, for the treatment of five different types of cancer namely metastatic colorectal cancer; unresectable, locally advanced, recurrent or metastatic non-squamous no...

Jul 10, 2018

Arming antibiotics with a vaccination-like immune response Harnessing the ability of the body’s immune system has already well-tried to be effective in treating cancer. Marcos Pires, Ph.D., a Lehigh associate professor of biochemistry performed a test on it. To make it worse, these microorganism perpetually evolv...