TORONTO, Canada and HOUSTON, TX — Medicenna Therapeutics Corp., a clinical-stage immunotherapy company focused on the development of Superkines, today announced initiation of enrollment in the combination arm of the Phase 1/2 ABILITY (ABeta-only IL-2 ImmunoTherapY) study evaluating MDNA11, a long-acting, “beta-enhanced not-alpha” interleukin-2 (IL-2) super-agonist, with Merck’s pembrolizumab (KEYTRUDA®)....
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I blog, I tweet and I use Facebook. And as I recently told a medical colleague, social media has been an enormously useful tool in my work. “I can barely keep up with e-mail,” he snorted back. “I’m not about to open up that black box.” About 15 years ago,...
LA JOLLA, Calif. – MediciNova, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company traded on the NASDAQ Global Market (NASDAQ:MNOV) and the JASDAQ Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Code Number: 4875), today announced that it has received a Notice of Intention to Grant from the European Patent Office for a pending patent application...
WINNIPEG, Canada – Medicure Inc. (TSXV:MPH)(OTC PINK:MCUJF), a company focused on the development and commercialization of pharmaceuticals and healthcare products for patients and prescribers in the United States market, today announced that the FDA provides complete approval to enroll patients in its pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial to evaluate the...
WINNIPEG, Canada – Medicure Inc. (TSXV:MPH)(OTC PINK:MCUJF), a company focused on the development and commercialization of pharmaceuticals and healthcare products for patients and prescribers in the United States market, announced today that through its subsidiary, Medicure International Inc., the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation...
SAN FRANCISCO — Medivation, Inc. (Nasdaq: MDVN) today announced the completion of patient enrollment in the CONNECTION study, a six-month, confirmatory, pivotal Phase 3 trial of the investigational drug dimebon in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease. The international, double-blind, placebo-controlled, pivotal Phase 3 study enrolled 598 patients, exceeding the enrollment...
LOS ANGELES — MEDomics, LLC (www.medomics.com) announces an innovative test for early diagnosis of mitochondrial diseases, a group of disorders that can result in neurological dysfunction, muscle weakness, gastrointestinal symptoms, migraine headaches, blindness, deafness, and diabetes. The MEDomics mitochondrial genome test, MitoDx(TM), uses the revolutionary NextGen sequencing technology to detect...
SAN DIEGO – MEI Pharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: MEIP), a late-stage pharmaceutical company focused on advancing potential new therapies for cancer, and Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd. (TSE:4151, Kyowa Kirin), a global specialty pharmaceutical company that strives to create new value through the pursuit of advances in life sciences and technologies, today announced...
SAN DIEGO & BEDMINSTER, N.J. – MEI Pharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: MEIP), a late-stage pharmaceutical company focused on advancing new therapies for cancer, and Kyowa Kirin, Inc., an affiliate of Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd. (Kyowa Kirin, TSE: 4151), a global specialty pharmaceutical company that utilizes the latest biotechnology to discover and...
WASHINGTON – The Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) released the following statements from MRA Chief Science Officer Marc Hurlbert, PhD and MRA President & CEO Michael Kaplan on the Food & Drug Administration approval of tebentafusp, the first drug for treating metastatic uveal melanoma: “This approval represents a new day for...