DUBLIN, Ireland — Alkermes plc (Nasdaq: ALKS) today announced topline results from a phase 3, open-label extension study assessing the long-term safety, tolerability and durability of treatment effect of LYBALVI® (olanzapine and samidorphan) in patients with schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder or bipolar I disorder for up to four years of treatment, following treatment...
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Seattle, WA — With pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) diagnoses on the rise globally, a clinical trial in Seattle aims to transform treatment approaches through deep molecular profiling. Recruitment has begun for the Seattle STRIDE study, a joint effort by Seattle Children’s Research Institute and the Allen Institute for Immunology....
Chicago, Illinois – Patients with muscle-invasive urothelial cancer and a high risk of recurrence after surgery may have a new treatment option. The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology today announced positive results from the phase III AMBASSADOR (A031501) trial for the adjuvant treatment of patients with localized muscle-invasive urothelial...
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Allogene Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALLO), a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering the development of allogeneic CAR T (AlloCAR T™) products for cancer and autoimmune diseases, announced that it has received a $15 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to support the clinical...
In a recent study, patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) who have myelofibrosis (MF) showed a worse prognosis when MF was of greater severity. However, this pattern of severity influencing prognosis appeared negated with allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT). The study findings were reported in the journal Experimental Hematology & Oncology....
LONDON, UK – In a comprehensive Genomic Press Viewpoint (review) article, researchers are shining a spotlight on a revolutionary approach to tackling neuroendocrine tumours (NETs), a rare but increasingly prevalent form of cancer. Published in Brain Medicine today, a peer-reviewed article titled “Alpha particle therapy for neuroendocrine tumours: A focused...
The brain is indeed a target for treating ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered. This flips a long-standing belief that the disease starts in the spinal motor neurons and any therapy would need to target the spine as the key focus. A new Northwestern study shows the degeneration...
New York, NY – Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have made a significant breakthrough in Alzheimer’s disease research by identifying a novel way to potentially slow down or even halt disease progression. The study, which focuses on the role of reactive astrocytes and the plexin-B1...
MELBOURNE, Australia and SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Alterity Therapeutics (ASX: ATH, NASDAQ: ATHE) (“Alterity” or “the Company”), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing disease modifying treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, today announced that it will host a virtual key opinion leader (KOL) event featuring Roy Freeman, MD (Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical...
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Alvotech, a global biotech company specializing in the development and manufacture of biosimilar medicines for patients worldwide, today announced positive top-line results from a confirmatory clinical study for AVT06, Alvotech’s proposed biosimilar to Eylea® (aflibercept). “The progress of our product pipeline clearly illustrates the advantage of our...