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Kiadis inks license deal with Sanofi; Gilead Ends Hep B Collaboration; Merck & Foghorn inks $425M deal; Tregs research updates

Sanofi licenses NK cells of Kiadis to boost the efficacy  Sanofi has licensed the natural killer (NK) cells from Kiadis Pharma for use in combination with its multiple myeloma drug Sarclisa. The deal worth of USD 986 million gives the global rights to Sanofi for therapies that could lessen an efficacy-limit...

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The Increasing Global Burden of Cytomegalovirus Seroprevalence

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a common herpes virus, and approximately 50 to 80 per cent of the adult US population has had a CMV infection by the time they turn 40. Once the virus infects an individual, it stays in their bodies in dormant form.  The estimates by DelveInsight suggest that the total number of dia...

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Regeneron’s I-O Drug; Gene Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease; Yumanity and Merck Inks $500M Deal; Simcha Raises $25M

Regeneron recognizes new combos to boost I-O drug Libtayo's cancer response PD-1/L1 inhibitors work by enhancing the immune response to cancer, have benefitted patients combat several types of tumors. However, many people either do not respond to these checkpoint inhibitors, or they eventually develop resistance...

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Sarepta & Codiak Inks $72.5M Deal; Invitae to Acquires ArcherDX; Merck announces V114’s Phase III result

Sarepta Therapeutics has announced a research and option alliance with Codiak BioSciences to design and develop engineered exosome therapeutics for neuromuscular diseases The engineered exosome technology is believed to improve the delivery of delivering gene therapy, gene editing and RNA technologies for ne...

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Merck supports Peloton Therapeutics; Thermo Fisher, WuXi and Mayo Clinic join hands; JNJ’s anti-BCMA CAR-T sweeps multiple myeloma aside; Tafinlar-Mekinist combo of Novartis receives a boost

Merck supports Peloton Therapeutics with positive kidney cancer data Merck is revealing the data from a phase 2 study of a HIF-2α inhibitor after a year betting USD 1.05 billion on Peloton Therapeutics, and the deal is promising.  The drug limited tumour growth in 43% and shrank tumors in 28% of patients...

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Mavacamten Phase III clinical trial, FDA nod for Ovarian cancer therapy, Dyno Therapeutics & Novartis Collaboration, Abbott’s COVID-19 diagnostic kit

MyoKardia has announced the promising results of Phase III clinical trials of its lead drug mavacamten for symptomatic, obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Following the announcement, shares of the California-based company skyrocketed. The Phase III clinical trial - EXPLORER-HCM – demonstrated the pot...

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Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Market Insights
Novel mutation-targeting therapies in the horizon to relieve the global healthcare burden NSCLC poses

Non-small cell lung cancer market is anticipated to increase in the 7MM from USD 9,730 million in 2017 by 2030. Worldwide, cancer claimed the lives of approximately 9.6 million people in 2018 as per WHO, with lung cancer being the most commonly diagnosed one and accounting for the highest number of deaths (1.76...

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Remdesivir accelerates for COVID-19 recovery; Merck pact with Almac; Pfizer, BioNTech finish dosing in; Taysha Gene Therapies for trials

Remdesivir of Gilead accelerates COVID-19 recovery Gilead Sciences' Remdesivir shows the first data from a placebo-controlled study. Remdesivir decreases recovery time for hospitalized COVID-19 patients by four days or 31% as published in a National Institutes of Health-sponsored study setting the drug against p...

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In the race to fight SARS-CoV-2: Merck, ISB; ViiV; Genalyte gears up

Merck has collaborated with the Seattle-based Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) to further study novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The primary goal of the collaboration will be to investigate the molecular pathway of SARS-CoV-2 and aetiology of COVID-19 with the intent of finding an effective and standard treatm...

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Nunaps raises USD 4.2M; Arcutis files for USD 100M IPO

A South Korean startup therapeutics company Nunaps has successfully raised USD 4.2 Million around 5 billion won in a Series A round.  The investment was made by the K Partners, KTB Network, and K2 Investment Partners. Nunaps is digital therapeutics and is planning to use the funds to build its digital thera...

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