CHENGDU, China — Chengdu Chipscreen NewWay Biosciences Co., Ltd. announced that on January 5, 2024, the dosing of the first patient for a phase I clinical trial of a PD-1/CD40 bispecific antibody (bsAb), NWY001, at Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center in China, the trial-leading institution. The trial is a multi-center,...
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SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. – PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTCT), today announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended the approval of Evrysdi™ (risdiplam) for the treatment of 5q spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in patients 2 months and older, with a clinical...
PRINCETON, N.J. — Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended approval of Opdivo® (nivolumab) in combination with cisplatin and gemcitabine for the first-line treatment of adult patients with unresectable or metastatic urothelial...
Basel – Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended the approval of ENSPRYNG® (satralizumab) as the first subcutaneous treatment option for adults and adolescents from 12 years of age living with anti-aquaporin-4 antibody...
BASEL, Switzerland – Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended the approval of a subcutaneous (SC) formulation of Lunsumio® (mosunetuzumab) for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory (R/R) follicular lymphoma (FL)...
SYDNEY, Australia — Imugene Limited (ASX: IMU), a clinical stage immuno-oncology company, is pleased to announce that enrolment has opened for its expansion study in bile tract cancer (cholangiocarcinoma) patients, having completed the fifth, high dose cohort in the intratumoural (IT) arm of the monotherapy dose escalation study evaluating its...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – A team from University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center is launching the nation’s first-ever clinical trials evaluating the cholesterol drug fenofibrate (Triglide, Fibricor, Lipofen) as an investigational and potential treatment for patients with HPV+ cervical and HPV+ head and neck cancer (HNSCC). Published pre-clinical results show fenofibrate restores function of key...
NEW YORK, NY – Hard-to-detect colorectal pre-cancerous lesions known as serrated polyps, and the aggressive tumors that develop from them, depend heavily on the ramped-up production of cholesterol, according to a preclinical study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine. The finding points to the possibility of using cholesterol-lowering drugs to...
PHILADELPHIA and GORDONVILLE, Pa. — Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Clinic for Special Children found that complement factor I (CFI) deficiency, an ultra-rare genetic disorder that can cause debilitating neuroinflammation, is more than 4500 times more likely to be found in individuals of Old Order Amish ancestry than the rest of the global population....
Philadelphia, PA — In a preclinical study, researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) demonstrated a novel gene therapy with potentially increased effectiveness and safety for the treatment for metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD), a rare disease in young children characterized by the deficient activity of a critical enzyme. Without effective treatment, MLD...