NSCLC
Jul 11, 2023
FDA Grants Priority Review for Zolbetuximab BLA; FDA Traditional Approval for LEQEMBI for Alzheimer’s Disease; Iovance Announces Regulatory and Clinical Updates for TIL Therapy in Advanced NSCLC; Biophytis Seeks FDA Approval to Launch Phase 3 Study of Potential Treatment of Sarcopenia; Orphan Drug Designation to Marker Therapeutics’s MT-401 for AML Treatment; Axsome Therapeutics Initiates Phase 3 Trial of Solriamfetol for ADHD
Astellas Announces FDA Grants Priority Review for Zolbetuximab Biologics License Application Astellas Pharma Inc. announced that the FDA has accepted and granted Priority Review for the company's Biologics Licence Application (BLA) for zolbetuximab, a first-in-class investigational Claudin 18.2 (CLDN18.2)-target...
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May 30, 2023
FDA Approves Lexicon’s INPEFA (Sotagliflozin); PTC Therapeutics’s Vatiquinone MOVE-FA Registration-Directed Trial; EU Approval to Novartis’s Sickle Cell Disease Drug; EMA Approves Neoadjuvant Nivolumab/Chemotherapy in Resectable NSCLC; FDA Grants Priority Review to Fruquintinib for mCRC; FDA Orphan Drug Designation to Vega Therapeutics’s VGA039
Lexicon Announces FDA Approval of INPEFA (Sotagliflozin) For Treatment of Heart Failure Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that the FDA has approved INPEFATM (sotagliflozin), a once-daily oral tablet, to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death, hospitalization for heart failure, and urgent heart failure vis...
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May 02, 2023
FDA Grants Priority Review to BMS’ Luspatercept; Teva and MedinCell’s Risperidone FDA Approval; Biogens’s QALSODY FDA Accelerated Approval; FDA IND Authorization to Kiromic’s Deltacel; Atsena’s ATSN-201 FDA IND Clearance
FDA Grants Priority Review to Luspatercept for First-line Treatment of Anemia in Lower-risk MDS The FDA has granted priority review to a supplemental biologics license application (sBLA) seeking to expand the current indication of luspatercept-aamt (Reblozyl) to include treatment of anemia in patients with very ...
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Dec 06, 2022
Nkarta’s Anti-CD19 Allogeneic CAR-NK Cell Therapy, NKX019; Eisai Presents Results of lecanemab for Alzheimer’s Disease; EQRx’s Aumolertinib for EGFR-Mutated NSCLC; FDA Approves Olutasidenib for IDH1-Mutated R/R AML; FDA Orphan Drug Designation to AUM302 for Neuroblastoma; X4 Pharma Announces Results for WHIM Syndrome Drug
FDA Grants Orphan Drug Designation to AUM302 for Neuroblastoma A global clinical-stage biotech company, AUM Biosciences, focused on discovering and developing precision oncology therapeutics, declared that the U.S. FDA has permitted Orphan Drug Designation for AUM302. For the treatment of neuroblastoma, AUM302 i...
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Nov 29, 2022
C4X Discovery and AstraZeneca Signs Deal; FDA Rejects Spectrum’s Poziotinib; Orphan Drug Designation to Tenaya’s Gene Therapy; EC Approves Regeneron’s Libtayo; Response Letter to Poziotinib for Metastatic NSCLC Harboring HER2 Exon 20 Mutations; Japan Approves Trastuzumab Deruxtecan for HER2+ Breast Cancer
C4X Discovery Holdings and AstraZeneca Signs Exclusive USD 402 Million Global License C4X Discovery Holdings has signed an exclusive global license with AstraZeneca worth up to USD 402 million for the development and commercialization of the NRF2 Activator program. The agreement will allow AstraZeneca to develop...
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Nov 25, 2022
ESMO Asia 2022: Role of EGFR and ALK mutations in the East Asian Lung Cancer Market
Lung Cancer presents a heavy health and economic burden in Asia, being the most common form of cancer, with 60% of the world’s lung cancers being diagnosed there. Lung cancer is also present in more than 30% of non-smokers in Asia, specifically in adenocarcinomas, which is a subtype largely defined by oncogenic dri...
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Nov 15, 2022
Genentech’s gantenerumab Fails in Phase III Trial; CHMP Recommends’ Dupixent; FDA Clears Imfinzi and Imjudo with chemotherapy; NICE Recommends Ipsen’s Cabometyx (cabozantinib); NICE Backs KEYTRUDA; NRG Announces £16 Million Series A Funding; FDA Backs AstraZeneca’s PT027
Genentech’s gantenerumab Fails in Phase III Trial for Alzheimer’s Disease In yet another setback for an amyloid-targeting drug, Roche's Genentech division has reported disappointing top-line results from its highly anticipated phase III trial of gantenerumab in early Alzheimer's disease. The failure is entirely ...
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Oct 14, 2022
Checkpoint Inhibitors: A Potential Approach in the Fight Against Refractory Cancer
Immune checkpoint inhibitors are drugs that inhibit immune checkpoints. These drugs allow immune cells to respond more strongly to cancer by blocking them. This blocks the “off” signal, allowing T-cells to kill cancer cells. Checkpoint inhibitors can be used to treat a variety of cancers, including lung cancer (...
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Oct 11, 2022
Merck’s Sotatercept Trial Result; PARP Rivals Closing in on AstraZeneca and Merck’s Lynparza; FDA Clears GSK’s Boostrix for Pertussis; Fast Track Designation to Nanoscope Therapeutics’s MCO-010; FDA Awards Fast Track Designation to Eftilagimod Alpha Plus Pembrolizumab; Solid Biosciences to Acquire AavantiBio
Merck’s Sotatercept Clears Phase III Trial Merck’s USD 11.5 billion acquisition of Acceleron last year was based on the promise of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) candidate sotatercept, which has recently met the mark in a much-anticipated phase III trial. The STELLAR trial found that adding the activin re...
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Sep 13, 2022
Amgen Announced the Result of its CodeBreak-200 Trial; FDA Clears Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Deucravacitinib; BioNTech’s Amplified CAR-T Therapy; TIL Therapy Improves on Yervoy in Melanoma; GSK’s Daprodustat will have to face FDA Advisory Committee; Breakthrough Therapy Status to Pfizer’s Group B Strep Vaccine; EU Approves Gilead’ Tecartus; Gilead’ Trodelvy Results in TROPiCs-02 Trial
Amgen Reveals the Top-line Result of its CodeBreak-200 trial of Lumakras in Lung Cancer The top-line result of Amgen's CodeBreak-200 trial of Lumakras in lung cancer was presented in abstract form at ESMO two weeks ago, showing a 34% improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) compared to chemotherapy. The fu...
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