treatment News

New Haven, CT – Gaucher disease treatment has come a long way in the past three decades. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) in 1991. That first approval opened the door for other ERT treatments and paved the road for substrate...
SYDNEY – Kazia Therapeutics Limited (ASX: KZA; NASDAQ: KZIA), an oncology-focused drug development company, is pleased to inform stakeholders that the GBM AGILE study in glioblastoma (NCT03970447) has opened at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario. This marks the first Canadian site to open to paxalisib, and the first...
Gemcitabine plus cisplatin significantly improved overall survival (OS) when compared with fluorouracil plus cisplatin in treatment-naïve patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma, according to final results of a phase 3 study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.¹ The GEM20110714 trial (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01528618) enrolled 362 patients who were randomly assigned 1:1...
DRESDEN, Germany – GEMoaB, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of next-generation immunotherapies for hard-to-treat cancers, today announced the publication of clinical data obtained from the ongoing Phase I study of their rapidly switchable UniCAR platform lead asset, UniCAR-T-CD123, in relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia (rrAML), in the journal “Blood”. The...
Boston, Mass. – A new study co-led by investigators from Mass Eye and Ear, a member of Mass General Brigham, demonstrated the effectiveness of a gene therapy towards restoring hearing function for children suffering from hereditary deafness. In a trial of six children taking place at the Eye & ENT...
Auckland, New Zealand – A group of patients with a hereditary disorder have had their lives transformed by a single treatment of a breakthrough gene-editing therapy, according to the lead researcher. The patients from New Zealand, the Netherlands and the UK have hereditary angioedema, a genetic disorder characterised by severe, painful...