House Minority Leader Bradley H. Jones, Jr. (R-North Reading) has appointed State Rep. Hannah Kane (R-Shrewsbury) to serve as his designee on the newly-established Rare Disease Advisory Council. During the 2019-2020 legislative session, Kane was the lead co-sponsor, along with Representative Joseph McKenna (R-Webster), of legislation calling for the creation...
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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – Karolinska Development AB (Nasdaq Stockholm: KDEV) announces today that its portfolio company Umecrine Cognition has published results from the recently conducted phase 2a study of the drug candidate golexanolone in the highly regarded scientific journal Journal of Hepatology. The study results show that the company’s drug candidate...
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – Karolinska Development AB (Nasdaq Stockholm: KDEV) announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to Aprea Therapeutics’ drug candidate eprenetapopt for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). KDev Investments, a company jointly owned by Karolinska Development and Rosetta Capital, holds...
Basel, Switzerland – Experts are working on novel immune-enhancing therapies called host-directed therapies to use the body’s own immune system to target tuberculosis, with hopes that they could tackle even the drug-resistant forms of the disease. In a presentation at this year’s ESCMID Global Congress (formerly ECCMID) in Barcelona (27-30...
Solna, Sweden – Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have uncovered a unique ability of a special subtype of natural killer cells in the immune system, called adaptive NK cells, to remember ovarian tumours and effectively attack them. The discovery, published in Cancer Immunology Research, could pave the way for new, more...
Stockholm, Sweden – Using an AI tool, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have analysed brain images from 70-year-olds and estimated their brains’ biological age. They found that factors detrimental to vascular health, such as inflammation and high glucose levels, are associated with an older-looking brain, while healthy lifestyles were linked to...
Stockholm, Sweden – Ozempic and other GLP1 agonists are associated with a reduced risk of developing cirrhosis and liver cancer in people with type 2 diabetes and chronic liver disease, according to a nationwide study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in the journal Gut. GLP1 agonists like Ozempic reduce...
– Menarini Group Obtains Exclusive Rights to Commercialize NEXPOVIO for the Treatment of Hematologic and Solid Tumor Oncology Indications in Europe (including the United Kingdom), Latin America and Other Key Countries – Karyopharm to Receive $75 Million Upfront, then Eligible to Receive Up to $202.5 Million in Future Milestones, Plus Tiered, Double-digit Royalties on Net Sales NEWTON, Mass. and FLORENCE, Italy,...
NEWTON, Mass. – Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: KPTI), a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company pioneering novel cancer therapies, today announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has validated the Company’s Type II Variation Marketing Authorization Application (MAA), which seeks to expand the currently authorized indication for NEXPOVIO® in the European Union to...
NEWTON, Mass. – Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq:KPTI), a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company pioneering novel cancer therapies, announced the expansion of its royalty agreement with entities managed by HealthCare Royalty Management, LLC (HCR) for up to $100 million in new financing to support the ongoing development and commercialization of XPOVIO® (selinexor), the...