WASHINGTON — Think your job’s tedious? Try beheading 100 mosquitoes an hour. Gently, no smushing allowed. Malaria parasites lurk in these mosquitoes’ salivary glands, and a small company on the outskirts of the nation’s capital needs them unharmed for a dramatic test — attempting the first live vaccine to fight...
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SAN FRANCISCO – PulmoSIM Therapeutics (PulmoSIM), the pharmaceutical subsidiary of VeriSIM Life, Inc., is pleased to announce that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation for asset PT001 for the treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH). PT001 targets multiple responsible pathways in PAH, to provide a...
BOSTON, Mass. – PureTech Health plc (Nasdaq: PRTC, LSE: PRTC), a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company dedicated to changing the lives of patients with devastating diseases, today announced that enrollment has been completed in the ELEVATE IPF Phase 2b clinical trial evaluating LYT-100 (deupirfenidone) in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). LYT-100 is...
BOSTON, Mass. – PureTech Health plc (Nasdaq: PRTC, LSE: PRTC), a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company dedicated to changing the lives of patients with devastating diseases, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for LYT-200 in combination with anti-PD1 therapy for the treatment of...
REHOVOT, Israel — Purple Biotech Ltd. (NASDAQ/TASE: PPBT), a clinical-stage company developing first-in-class therapies that harness the power of the tumor microenvironment to overcome tumor immune evasion and drug resistance, today announced it has determined 100mg/kg is the recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D) for NT219 in combination with cetuximab in...
PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Pyros Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leader in the development of enhanced specialty pharmaceuticals for rare diseases, announced today that VIGPODER™ (vigabatrin) for oral solution, USP, a treatment for appropriate patients with infantile spasms (IS), is now available. As a therapeutically equivalent product, VIGPODER™ is anticipated to offer the...
NEW YORK, Jan. 27, 2021 – Q BioMed Inc. (OTCQB: QBIO), announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Orphan Products Development has granted Orphan Drug Designation to Uttroside-B, a small molecule chemotherapeutic for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common form of liver cancer....
Seattle, Washinton – Of the 38 million Americans who have diabetes at least 90% have Type 2, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Type 2 diabetes occurs over time and is characterized by a loss of the cells in the pancreas that make the hormone insulin, which...
Miami, Florida – The treatment landscape for multiple myeloma, the second most common blood cancer, is shifting rapidly, with newly diagnosed patients increasingly being treated with a four-part drug combination that includes a new immunotherapy agent. Over the last decade, options have evolved from double, to triple to quadruple combination...
BILLERICA, Mass. — Quanterix Corporation (NASDAQ: QTRX), a leading provider of ultra-sensitive research products and high-definition diagnostics, announced today that its Simoa® phospho-Tau 217 (p-Tau 217) blood test has been granted Breakthrough Device designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as an aid in diagnostic evaluation of Alzheimer’s...