A new prostate cancer risk assessment test, developed by a UCSF team, gives patients and their doctors a better way of gauging long-term risks and pinpointing high risk cases. According to UCSF study findings, published this week, the test proved accurate in predicting bone metastasis, prostate cancer-specific mortality, and all-cause...
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KVISTGARD, Denmark — Detailed data from a randomized Phase 2 study with PROSTVAC(TM) were presented at the ASCO Annual Meeting in Orlando. The presentation was made by Philip Kantoff MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who is also the principal investigator of the study....
NEWARK, Calif. – Protagonist Therapeutics (Nasdaq:PTGX) (“Protagonist” or “the Company”) today announced updated results from the ongoing Phase 2 study of rusfertide, an investigational new drug being evaluated for the treatment of polycythemia vera (PV). “This data set cumulatively builds on previously presented scientific evidence demonstrating rusfertide’s potential as the first-in-class,...
NEWARK, Calif. – Protagonist Therapeutics, Inc. (“Protagonist” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: PTGX), today announced the completion of enrollment for the Company’s Phase 2 study of rusfertide (PTG-300) in polycythemia vera (“PV”). Enrollment easily exceeded the targeted 50 evaluable patients for the study. Those patients eligible for enrollment, but unable to...
Israeli biotech firm Protalix Biotherapeutics Ltd. (PLX: News ) is only months away from announcing the late-stage study results of its lead product candidate prGCD for the treatment of Gaucher (pronounced Go-shay) disease. Gaucher disease is an inherited genetic disorder, in which patients lack the normal form of the glucocerebrosidase,...
CARMIEL, Israel and BOSTON – Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. (NYSE American: PLX) (TASE: PLX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, production and commercialization of recombinant therapeutic proteins produced by its proprietary ProCellEx® plant cell-based protein expression system, and Chiesi Global Rare Diseases, a business unit of Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A., an international research-focused healthare Group (Chiesi Group),...
CARMIEL, Israel and BOSTON – Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. (NYSE American:PLX) (TASE:PLX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, production and commercialization of recombinant therapeutic proteins produced by its proprietary ProCellEx® plant cell-based protein expression system, and Chiesi Global Rare Diseases, a business unit of Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A., an international research-focused healthcare Group (Chiesi Group),...
RICHLAND, Wash. — Doctors have nearly a dozen new targeted drugs to treat patients with acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, yet three of four patients still die within five years. Some patients succumb within just a month or two, despite the battery of drugs used to treat the aggressive blood...
DUBLIN, Ireland — Prothena Corporation plc (NASDAQ:PRTA), a late-stage clinical biotechnology company with a robust pipeline of investigational therapeutics built on protein dysregulation expertise, today announced the publication related to the mechanism of action, pharmacological characteristics, and clinical utility of birtamimab, a potential best-in-class anti-amyloid treatment for AL amyloidosis. The...
TAMPA, Fla. — Psilera, a leading biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel treatments for neurological disorders, is pleased to announce the selection of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) as the lead indication for its groundbreaking drug candidate, PSIL-006. This devastating form of early-onset dementia currently lacks approved treatments to manage symptoms...