HELSINKI, Finland — TILT Biotherapeutics (TILT), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing cancer immunotherapies, announces it has been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), America’s largest government agency, to receive a USD 2M grant for a three-year project on treatment for ovarian cancer using the company’s TILT-123 asset. The...
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Johns Hopkins brain scientists have figured out why a faulty protein accumulates in cells everywhere in the bodies of people with Huntington’s disease (HD), but only kills cells in the part of the brain that controls movement, causing negligible damage to tissues elsewhere. The answer, reported this week in Science,...
Gothenburg, Sweden – Proteins that form clumps occur in many difficult-to-treat diseases, such as ALS, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s. The mechanisms behind how the proteins interact with each other are difficult to study, but now researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a new method for capturing many proteins...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Genmab A/S (Nasdaq: GMAB) and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) seeking to convert the accelerated approval of TIVDAK® (tisotumab vedotin-tftv) to full approval, for the treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic...
ST. LOUIS, MO – Each year, tuberculosis (TB) kills more people than any other infectious disease, falling out of the top spot only temporarily during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite TB’s wide reach and some lost progress during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers believe it is possible to eradicate TB through advances...
ANDERSON — “Every day is so different,” said Amanda Pfeiffer of Anderson. Pfeiffer was referring to her infant son, Kohen, who lives with a condition known as epidermolysis bullosa. “Like right now, he can’t be out in the heat and humidity, because it makes him blister really easily. It’s an...
Little Emma Gardner will have to take daily medication for the rest of her life after being born with a deadly genetic condition. Two-year-old Emma was diagnosed when she was just eight-weeks-old with cystic fibrosis, which affects her breathing and digestive system. Sufferers on average live only until their 30s...
Arlington, Va. — A new study published today in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC) reports the infection prevention steps taken to control a months-long multispecies outbreak of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales that occurred in a pediatric ward at the Toho University Omori Medical Center in Tokyo in 2017. This study...
CHATHAM, N.J. — Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp., a biopharmaceutical company with marketed products and a pipeline of development candidates, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has conditionally accepted the trade name, Tonmya™, for the company’s drug product candidate TNX-102 SL for the management of fibromyalgia. Tonmya...
CHATHAM, N.J. — Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp., a biopharmaceutical company with marketed products and a pipeline of development candidates, today announced that the Phase 3 RESILIENT study evaluating TNX-102 SL (cyclobenzaprine HCl sublingual tablets) met its pre-specified primary endpoint in the second of two positive Phase 3 clinical trials, significantly...