SANTA MONICA, Calif. & TOKYO -Kite, a Gilead Company, and Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (hereafter, Daiichi Sankyo) today announced that YESCARTA® (axicabtagene ciloleucel), a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, will be available to patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphomas in Japan through the first treatment center now authorized...
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TOKYO, Japan & BASKING RIDGE, N.J. — Daiichi Sankyo (TSE: 4568) and AstraZeneca’s (LSE/STO/Nasdaq: AZN) Biologics License Application (BLA) for datopotamab deruxtecan (Dato-DXd) has been accepted in the U.S. for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have received prior...
Sydney, Australia – In good news for office workers, a new study from the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre has found increasing your step count may counteract the health consequences of too much sedentary time each day. The study of over 72,000 people, published in the British Journal of...
On the heels of a milestone year, which also happened to be the same as its official launch, Dallas-based Taysha Gene Therapies has secured the exclusive worldwide rights to a clinical-stage gene therapy program that treats a rare inherited genetic disorder. The AAV9 gene therapy Taysha has acquired would be...
Boston, MA — Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a blood test that could transform the diagnosis and monitoring of multiple myeloma (MM) and its precursor conditions. The new method, known as SWIFT-seq, utilizes single-cell sequencing to profile circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the blood, offering a non-invasive alternative to traditional...
Boston, Mass. – Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have created a CRISPR-based rapid molecular diagnostic for two forms of leukemia that are driven by mutations that involve gene fusions. The technology accurately detects the presence of these gene fusions in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) and chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in...
Boston, Mass. – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers report that all nine patients in a clinical trial being treated for stage III or IV clear cell renal cell carcinoma (a form of kidney cancer), generated a successful anti-cancer immune response after initiation of a personalized cancer vaccine. The vaccines were administered...
Osaka, Japan – The DAPPER study was conducted with the National Cardiovascular Center as the principal investigator, with 294 patients participating from 18 facilities in Japan. In this study, we investigated whether dapagliflozin suppresses urinary albumin excretion, a sensitive marker of kidney damage, and whether it also suppresses cardiovascular events...
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Today marks a turning point in the battle against Alzheimer’s disease as Darmiyan, Inc., a leading company in brain health innovation announces the FDA’s approval of its first-in-class (De Novo) clinical test, BrainSee. This approval marks a pivotal advancement in brain health and opens the door to...
Hanover, New Hampshire – Findings from a new study conducted by a team of researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and Thayer School of Engineering and published in Cell Reports Medicine, offer new insights into how antibodies function in combating herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections. Their research may lead to possible...