SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Akero Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKRO), a clinical-stage company developing transformational treatments for patients with serious metabolic diseases marked by high unmet medical need, today released preliminary topline week 96 results from HARMONY, a Phase 2b study evaluating the efficacy and safety of its lead product...
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HONG KONG — Akeso Inc. announced the enrollment of the first patient in the registrational Phase III clinical study comparing Cadonilimab (PD-1/CTLA-4 bispecific antibody) combined with chemotherapy versus Tislelizumab (PD-1 antibody) combined with chemotherapy in the first-line treatment for patients with PD-L1 negative (PD-L1 TPS＜1%) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)...
HONG KONG — Akeso, Inc. (9926.HK) is excited to announce that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its differentiated PD-1 monoclonal antibody, penpulimab-kcqx, in combination with cisplatin or carboplatin and gemcitabine for the first-line treatment of adult recurrent or metastatic non-keratinizing nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). FDA also approved...
HONG KONG — Akeso, Inc. (9926.HK) (“Akeso” or the “Company”) announced that the first patient has been dosed in its global, multicenter, randomized Phase II registrational trial (COMPASSION-36/AK104-225). The trial will evaluate cadonilimab, Akeso’s first-in-class PD-1/CTLA-4 bispecific antibody, in combination with lenvatinib versus lenvatinib alone for the treatment of advanced hepatocellular...
HONG KONG — Akeso, Inc. today announced that the Company presented the promising phase II results of cadonilimab (a tetravalent PD-1/CTLA-4 bispecific antibody) and Lenvatinib (Len) combined with TACE for the treatment of mid- and advanced-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in a poster at the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology...
HONG KONG — Akeso published two phase Ib clinical results of its innovative CD47 monoclonal antibody ligufalimab (AK117) in combination with azacitidine in patients with newly diagnosed higher-risk myelodysplastic syndrome (HR-MDS) and treatment-naïve acute myeloid leukemia (AML) at the 65th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting. HR-MDS Anemia...
ZURICH, Switzerland — AL-S Pharma today announced positive topline results from the Phase 2 clinical study evaluating AP-101, a potential first-in-class, disease-modifying treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). AP-101 is a monoclonal antibody targeting misfolded SOD1, a key pathology in both sporadic ALS and mutant SOD1-ALS.1 AP-101, in addition to standard of...
BRONX, N.Y. – Albert Einstein College of Medicine has received a five-year, $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support the Rose F. Kennedy Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (RFK IDDRC), which has been at the forefront of research on normal and abnormal brain development for more than 50 years. The funding...
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Olatec Therapeutics LLC is very pleased to welcome Alberto Mantovani MD to its Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Mantovani is world renown for his seminal work on the link between inflammation and cancer, demonstrating how a chronic inflammatory response promotes the development and metastasis of cancer. Dr. Mantovani’s studies...
LONDON – Alchemab, a biotech company developing novel therapeutics for patients with hard-to-treat diseases by harnessing the power of naturally protective antibodies, has been awarded a UK Biomedical Catalyst early award grant from Innovate UK to support the development of a novel disease-modifying antibody therapy for Huntington’s disease (HD). The...