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NOVATO, Calif. — BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (NASDAQ: BMRN) announced today that it has received notice of priority review status for Kuvan(R) (sapropterin dihydrochloride) as an oral treatment for patients with phenylketonuria (PKU) from Health Canada. Priority review provides for a shortened submission review of 180 days versus the standard twelve...
NAARDEN, The Netherlands — Kynexis, a biotechnology company focused on precision therapeutics by leveraging biomarkers and human genetics for brain diseases, announced today that the first healthy volunteers have been dosed in its first-in-human phase 1 study of KYN-5356. KYN-5356, a clinical-stage small molecule targeting a key enzyme in the...
LONDON – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) today published its final appraisal document (FAD) for POTELIGEO® (mogamulizumab) announcing that POTELIGEO will not be made available on the NHS[1] in England and Wales. Mogamulizumab is a treatment for adults living with rare blood cancers, mycosis fungoides (MF) and...
LONDON – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has upheld an appeal lodged by Kyowa Kirin, Lymphoma Action and Leukaemia Care, and the UK Cutaneous Lymphoma Group (UKCLG) as part of the Single Technology Appraisal for POTELIGEO® (mogamulizumab) for the treatment of adults with the ultra-rare blood cancers...
EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Kyverna Therapeutics, Inc. (Kyverna), a patient-centered, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing cell therapies for patients suffering from autoimmune diseases, today announced the signature of a collaboration agreement with Stanford University to allow the use of KYV-101, an investigational, anti-CD19 CAR T-cell therapy in an open label,...
EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Kyverna Therapeutics, Inc., a patient-centered clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing cell therapies for patients suffering from autoimmune diseases, today announced it received fast track designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its autologous, fully human CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell product candidate,...
LA JOLLA, CA — La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) is working to guide the development of new tuberculosis vaccines and drug therapies. Now a team of LJI scientists has uncovered important clues to how human T cells combat Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes TB. Their findings were published...
BURLINGTON, N.C. – Labcorp® (NYSE: LH), a leading global life sciences company, today announced the availability of therascreen® KRAS PCR Mutation Analysis, a companion diagnostic to identify patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who are eligible for treatment with LUMAKRAS™ (sotorasib), a new treatment option developed by Amgen. Labcorp’s...