Chiba, Japan – Pulmonary aspergillosis—a group of infectious respiratory diseases caused by various species of the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus—has a significant mortality rate across the globe. Currently, the first-line antifungal therapy in patients with chronic pulmonary aspergillosis and invasive pulmonary aspergillosis is azoles, which belong to a class of antifungal...
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Bavarian Nordic A/S (OMX: BAVA) today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted accelerated assessment for the upcoming Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) for CHIKV VLP, the Company’s investigational chikungunya vaccine. The accelerated assessment, which is...
WAYNE, N.J. and EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONXX) today announced that the companies have begun enrolling patients in an international Phase 3 trial to evaluate Nexavar(R) (sorafenib) tablets in patients with non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have failed two or...
Berlin – Bayer HealthCare AG and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that the companies have begun enrolling patients in an international Phase III trial to evaluate Nexavar® (sorafenib) tablets in patients with non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have failed two or three previous treatments. “Nexavar has proven efficacy...
Berlin — Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany, has completed its first global Phase II study analyzing the sensitivity and specificity of BAY 94-9172 (AV1/ZK) using positron emission tomography (PET) in patients with probable Alzheimer’s disease compared to healthy volunteers. BAY 94-9172 binds to the beta amyloid protein in the brain,...
BERLIN, Germany — Bayer announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy designation for BAY 2927088 for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors have activating HER2 (ERBB2) mutations, and who have received a prior...
Houston, TX – Hepatoblastoma (HB) is the most common liver cancer in children. Researchers and physicians in the field are concerned because in the last decade HB has been rising rapidly worldwide and has seen the most rapid increase among all pediatric solid tumors. A team led by researchers at...
HOUSTON, TX – Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have discovered new insights into tumor-induced B cell changes in blood and bone marrow of triple negative breast cancer patients. The findings, published in Nature Cell Biology, show two distinct patterns of B cell abnormalities that could serve...
BOSTON – BBK Worldwide (BBK), the global leader in patient recruitment and engagement, announces that its RSG® Arrive travel program has achieved a major milestone with the completion of 20,000 trips. This program, which was launched in 2012 and continues to expand in response to marketplace needs, has made clinical trial participation...
ZURICH and NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – BC Platforms (BCP), a global leader in healthcare data management, analytics, and access and CureDuchenne, a leading global non-profit organisation focused on finding and funding a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, today announced a new collaboration. As part of the collaboration, CureDuchenne has integrated BCP’s Discovery and Research...