SEOUL, South Korea — Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.’s Bersiporocin (DWN12088) has been recognized as a significant advancement in treating idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a rare and debilitating disease. This first-in-class PRS inhibitor has recently received Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) from the European Medicines Agency (EMA), adding to its earlier designation...
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SEOUL, South Korea – Daewoong Pharmaceutical of South Korea has announced the promising clinical results of DWN12088, which is being developed as a first-in-class Prolyl-tRNA Synthetase(PRS) inhibitor for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) . Daewoong Pharmaceutical (CEO Sengho Jeon) presented the results of Phase I clinical trial of DWN12088 at Amerian Thoracic Society(ATS2021) which...
SEOUL, South Korea — Daewoong Pharmaceutical (Co-CEOs Seong-Soo Park and Chang-Jae Lee) announced that its first-in-class idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) drug candidate Bersiporocin (DWN12088) received a recommendation to continue its global Phase 2 clinical trial following a positive safety review by the third Independent Data Monitoring Committee (IDMC) held on September...
TOKYO & BASKING RIDGE, N.J. & MUNICH & LYON, France – Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (hereafter, Daiichi Sankyo) and LYSA-LYSARC-CALYM today announced that they have entered a strategic research collaboration to study valemetostat (DS-3201), Daiichi Sankyo’s potential first-in-class EZH1/2 dual inhibitor, in B-cell malignancies starting with a phase 2 study...
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. & RAHWAY, N.J. — Daiichi Sankyo (TSE: 4568) and Merck & Co. (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, announced today that the first patient has been dosed in the REJOICE-Ovarian01 phase 2/3 trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of investigational raludotatug deruxtecan...
SANTA MONICA, Calif. & TOKYO -Kite, a Gilead Company, and Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (hereafter, Daiichi Sankyo) today announced that YESCARTA® (axicabtagene ciloleucel), a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, will be available to patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphomas in Japan through the first treatment center now authorized...
TOKYO, Japan & BASKING RIDGE, N.J. — Daiichi Sankyo (TSE: 4568) and AstraZeneca’s (LSE/STO/Nasdaq: AZN) Biologics License Application (BLA) for datopotamab deruxtecan (Dato-DXd) has been accepted in the U.S. for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have received prior...
Sydney, Australia – In good news for office workers, a new study from the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre has found increasing your step count may counteract the health consequences of too much sedentary time each day. The study of over 72,000 people, published in the British Journal of...
On the heels of a milestone year, which also happened to be the same as its official launch, Dallas-based Taysha Gene Therapies has secured the exclusive worldwide rights to a clinical-stage gene therapy program that treats a rare inherited genetic disorder. The AAV9 gene therapy Taysha has acquired would be...
Boston, MA — Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a blood test that could transform the diagnosis and monitoring of multiple myeloma (MM) and its precursor conditions. The new method, known as SWIFT-seq, utilizes single-cell sequencing to profile circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the blood, offering a non-invasive alternative to traditional...