CHICAGO – Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: XERS) (“Xeris”) today announced that its stockholders have voted to approve the previously announced proposed acquisition of Strongbridge Biopharma plc (NASDAQ: SBBP) (“Strongbridge”) by Xeris. At the special meeting of Xeris stockholders held on September 14, 2021, approximately 97% of the shares voted were...
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XNK Therapeutics will perform a proof of concept study in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) using patient samples from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The proof of concept study is to determine the feasibility to expand and activate NK cells from patients with AML using XNK’s platform. The...
STOCKHOLM – XNK Therapeutics AB (“XNK”) today announced that it is entering into a joint Phase II clinical study to treat patients with multiple myeloma using XNK’s leading drug candidate in combination with Sanofi’s anti-CD38 antibody Sarclisa (isatuximab). XNK and Sanofi are both collaborative partners within NextGenNK Competence Center coordinated...
BUFFALO, NY – A new research paper was published in Aging, entitled, “XRCC1: a potential prognostic and immunological biomarker in LGG based on systematic pan-cancer analysis.” X-ray repair cross-complementation group 1 (XRCC1) is a pivotal contributor to base excision repair, and its dysregulation has been implicated in the oncogenicity of...
MARKHAM, Canada – Astellas Pharma Canada, Inc. announced that Health Canada has approved a supplemental New Drug Application for XTANDI® (enzalutamide) in a new prostate cancer treatment setting. With this approval, XTANDI becomes the first and only androgen receptor pathway inhibitor (ARPI) approved for use with or without a GnRH...
Rare diseases are not so rare. While a single rare disease may only affect a small proportion of the population, as many as 10% of Americans live with rare diseases, and most of those 30 million people have limited or no treatments and lack access to expert care. Now, Yale...
NEW YORK – Research into treatment for the ultra-rare HNRNPH2 related disorder received a major boost from the MUNCH Project. The Yellow Brick Road Project (YBRP) supports individuals with the disorder and their families and raised 134 ETH tokens worth roughly $320,000 towards the first privately funded research project into treatment for this...
SHANGHAI – Shanghai Yingli Pharmaceuticals Ltd (Yingli Pharma), a clinical stage pharmaceutical company providing new therapies for cancer and metabolic diseases, announced today the topline data from a clinical trial sponsored by the company at the annual meeting of the European Hematology Association (EHA) being held June 9-17, 2021. The study...
Los Angeles, California – A new UCLA Health study found Kundalini yoga provided several benefits to cognition and memory for older women at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease including restoring neural pathways, preventing brain matter decline and reversing aging and inflammation-associated biomarkers – improvements not seen in a group who...
SHANGHAI, China — YolTech Therapeutics announced that the first patient has been dosed with YOLT-101, the company’s in vivo genome editing candidate being developed as a single dose, potentially curative therapy for Familial Hypercholesterolemia(FH), marking the commencement of an Investigator-Initiated Trial (IIT). Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a genetic disorder that...