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Aug 10, 2021

FDA Approves Keytruda in Both Adjuvant and Neoadjuvant Setting in High-Risk Early-Stage TNBC In July 2021, the US FDA approved pembrolizumab (Keytruda) for high-risk, early-stage triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) in combination with chemotherapy as neoadjuvant treatment and then continued as a single agent as...

Jul 15, 2021

Hepion Pharma's NASH drug is set for Phase 2b after clearing the safety bar Hepion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapeutic drugs for the liver disease treatment arising from non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), declaring positive topline results from...

Jul 08, 2021

UNITY Biotechnology declares positive data from phase 1 clinical trial of UBX1325 in Advanced Vascular Eye Disease patients  UNITY Biotechnology, Inc., a biotechnology company developing therapeutics to decrease, impede, or reverse diseases of aging, declared positive data from its Phase 1 safety study of U...

Jun 24, 2021

Insilico Medicine raises USD 255 Million for AI drug discovery Insilico Medicine, a Hong Kong-based global leader in end-to-end artificial intelligence for target discovery, small molecule chemistry, and clinical development, closed a USD 255 Million Series C financing. Warburg Pincus led the round with parti...

Jun 17, 2021

Mallinckrodt earns FDA nod for regenerative skin therapy for burns Mallinckrodt plc’s Stratagraft gained FDA approval for use in deep partial-thickness thermal burns. The company said regenerative skin tissue therapy could lessen or eliminate the requirement of autografting of healthy skin to treat burn wounds. ...

Jun 08, 2021

Verdict for Biogen’s Long-Awaited Alzheimer’s Drug Is Finally Here   The USFDA finally gave approval to eagerly-anticipated Biogen’s Drug Aducanumab for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease under the accelerated approval pathway. The drug, marketed under the name Aduhelm, is the first that treats an un...

May 06, 2021

Pfizer suffers a DMD delay and halts BCMA trials amid safety woes  Pfizer has paused after seeing three cases of peripheral neuropathy in an early-stage study, enrollment in a critical analysis of its anti-BCMA bispecific antibody. Big Pharma shares news with details of delays to the start of the US part of...

Apr 29, 2021

Arch Oncology scores USD 105 Million for anti-CD47 med in solid tumors, multiple myeloma Arch Oncology scored USD 105 million from new and old backers to expand the drug’s journey through the clinic and into new trials, having moved its anti-CD47 antibody into a phase 1/2 study.  Arch tests the drug alon...

Apr 22, 2021

Vertex leads in CRISPR Therapeutics partnership with USD 900 Million upfront Vertex has boosted a deal with CRISPR Therapeutics to USD 900 million upfront as the companies compete against bluebird bio to the market with a novel gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia called CTX001. B...

Apr 15, 2021

Lilly’s RET inhibitor Retevmo exhibits early promise in new cancer types The phase 1/2 LIBRETTO-001 trial enrolled 32 patients with 12 unique RET fusion-positive advanced cancer types, comprising pancreatic, colon, breast and salivary cancer, with 62.5% affected by gastrointestinal tumours. Across all 32 pati...