In patients with fibrotic interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) other than idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), adding pirfenidone to treatment may attenuate disease progression, according to the results of a multicenter, double-blind, phase 2b trial (EU Clinical Trials Register Identifier: EudraCT 2014-000861-32) published in the journal Lancet Respiratory Medicine. Pirfenidone slows disease progression in...
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Nijmegen, Netherlands – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation to Pleco Therapeutics BV’s lead compound, PTX-252 for the treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). PTX-252 is a novel molecular entity developed to increase the sensitivity of cancer cells to chemotherapy. The FDA’s designation acknowledges...
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Pliant Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLRX) announced 12-week interim data from the 320 mg dose group of INTEGRIS-PSC, a multinational, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2a clinical trial of bexotegrast in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) and suspected moderate to severe liver fibrosis. The 320 mg...
Gdańsk, Poland – PolTREG S.A. (Warsaw Stock Exchange: PTG) , a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing cellular therapies for a range of autoimmune diseases, today announces it has published data in International Immunopharmacology which suggest that PD-1+ T-cells are a dependable biomarker for efficacy in pediatric early-onset Type-1 diabetes (T1D) patients,...
Gdańsk, Poland – PolTREG S.A., a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Europe developing cell therapies for use in a wide range of autoimmune diseases, announced it received a Notice of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), covering the manufacturing of T-regulatory cells (T-reg) to treat Type-1 diabetes...
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Poniard Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: PARD), a biopharmaceutical company focused on innovative oncology therapies, today announced updated efficacy and safety data from its Phase 2 clinical trial of picoplatin in patients with metastatic castration-resistant (hormone-refractory) prostate cancer (CRPC). The data demonstrate that picoplatin in combination with...
LONDON, UK – Poolbeg Pharma (AIM:POLB)(OTCQB:POLBF), a biopharmaceutical company focussed on the development and commercialisation of innovative medicines targeting diseases with a high unmet medical need, announces that it has entered into an exclusive 12-month option agreement with Silk Road Therapeutics Inc, for a nominal fee, to acquire a novel...
Posaconazole was non-inferior to voriconazole for the primary treatment of invasive aspergillosis, according to an international, randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, controlled non-inferiority trial published in the Lancet. Between October 25, 2013, and September 10, 2019, investigators randomly assigned 585 participants to receive either posaconazole or voriconazole. In the posaconazole group, 288 participants...
SAN DIEGO, CA — Poseida Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage cell and gene therapy company advancing a new class of treatments for patients with cancer and rare diseases, today highlighted recent progress across the company’s cell and gene therapy portfolio and provided updates on anticipated upcoming milestones. “In 2023, we made...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Poseida Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSTX), a clinical-stage cell and gene therapy company advancing a new class of treatments for patients with cancer and rare diseases, today announced new data from a subset of patients in an ongoing Phase 1 study of its lead program, P-BCMA-ALLO1. Results...