Zurich, Switzerland – Hydrogels have a variety of use cases, including contact lenses, delivering doses of medication within the body, moisturisers, water storage in soil, cleaning polluted water and as gelling and thickening agents. A hydrogel is a gel made of a type of plastic that can bind water. Researchers...
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UXBRIDGE, England — Norgine, a leading European specialty pharmaceutical company, is pleased to announce that Swissmedic has approved the registration of IFINWIL® (eflornithine) as monotherapy for the treatment of paediatric patients from one year with high-risk neuroblastoma (HRNB)1. “This milestone marks a further regulatory approval of IFINWIL® for high-risk neuroblastoma, following approvals in the US, Israel and Australia,” said Jörg Plessl,...
A large clinical trial has found that postmenopausal women with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative breast cancer that has spread to as many as three lymph nodes and who have a 21-gene recurrence score (RS) of 25 or lower can safely skip having chemotherapy and...
MIAMI, FLORIDA – A multicenter collaboration led by researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has produced the first computational model for newly diagnosed multiple myeloma that predicts an individual’s personalized prognosis based on their tumor genomics and treatments. The prediction model...
By Raffaele Pereno – PhD, MBA AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands – SynaptixBio, a UK-based biopharmaceutical company pioneering antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) therapies for ultra-rare neurological diseases, presented its groundbreaking work on TUBB4A-related leukodystrophy (also known as H-ABC) at the World Orphan Drug Congress (WODC) in Amsterdam. CheckOrphan spoke with SynaptixBio’s CEO, Dan...
WALTHAM, Mass. — Syndax Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: SNDX), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing an innovative pipeline of cancer therapies, today announced completion of enrollment in the AUGMENT-101 pivotal trial cohort of patients with relapsed/refractory (R/R) mutant nucleophosmin (mNPM1) acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Topline data is expected in the fourth...
WALTHAM, Mass. and WILMINGTON, Del. – Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNDX) and Incyte (Nasdaq: INCY) announced today that they have entered into an exclusive worldwide collaboration and license agreement to develop and commercialize axatilimab, Syndax’s anti-CSF-1R monoclonal antibody. “This partnership has the potential to significantly expand and maximize the axatilimab...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Synlogic, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYBX), a clinical stage company bringing the transformative potential of synthetic biology to medicine, today announced that it has initiated the Phase 1 clinical trial of SYNB1934, an investigational Synthetic Biotic™ medicine for the treatment of Phenylketonuria (PKU). “We are delighted to have so quickly advanced...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Synlogic, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYBX), a clinical stage company bringing the transformative potential of synthetic biology to medicine, today announced positive data from clinical studies evaluating both SYNB1618 and SYNB1934, investigational Synthetic Biotic™ medicines for the treatment of phenylketonuria (PKU). SYNB1618 demonstrated clinically meaningful reductions of phenylalanine (Phe) at several dose levels, across multiple time points, in...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Synlogic, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYBX), a biopharmaceutical company advancing novel therapeutics to transform the care of serious diseases, announced today the publication of a manuscript detailing the development and activity of SYNB1353 in preclinical models and demonstrating safety, tolerability, and clinical proof of mechanism in healthy volunteers through...