EMERYVILLE, Calif. – Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: LGND) today announced Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (NASDAQ: JAZZ) has launched Rylaze™ (asparaginase erwinia chrysanthemi (recombinant)-rywn), also known as JZP458. Rylaze, which was approved by the FDA on June 30, 2021, is a recombinant erwinia asparaginase used as a component of a multi-agent chemotherapeutic regimen for...
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Weifang, China – Light therapy leads to significant improvements in sleep and psycho-behavioral symptoms for patients with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Qinghui Meng of Weifang Medical University, China, and colleagues. The cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer’s disease...
Washington, D.C – Many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, are difficult to diagnose before symptoms begin to appear. However, disease-related biomarkers such as aggregated proteins called amyloids could provide important insight much earlier, if they can be readily detected. Researchers publishing in ACS Sensors have developed one such method...
INDIANAPOLIS — Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced it will begin enrolling patients this month in two separate but identical Phase III clinical trials of solanezumab(i), previously referred to as LY2062430, an anti-amyloid beta monoclonal antibody being investigated as a potential treatment to delay the progression of mild...
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced that data from studies of Jaypirca (pirtobrutinib), the first and only approved non-covalent (reversible) Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor, will be presented at the 67th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition, taking place Dec. 6-9 in Orlando, Florida. Key data presentations for Jaypirca include: In...
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced positive topline results from the Phase 3 BRUIN CLL-313 clinical trial of Jaypirca (pirtobrutinib), a non-covalent (reversible) Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor, versus chemoimmunotherapy (bendamustine plus rituximab), in treatment-naïve patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) without 17p deletions. The...
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced positive topline results from the Phase 3 BRUIN CLL-314 clinical trial of Jaypirca (pirtobrutinib), a non-covalent (reversible) Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor, versus Imbruvica (ibrutinib), a covalent BTK inhibitor, in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL). This study enrolled...
LAVAL, CANADA, and CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND – Liminal BioSciences Inc. (Nasdaq: LMNL) (“Liminal BioSciences” or the “Company”) announced today that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Ryplazim® (plasminogen, human-tvmh) (“Ryplazim®”) for the treatment of patients with plasminogen deficiency type 1 (hypoplasminogenia) through its subsidiary, Prometic Biotherapeutics Inc., holder of...
LAVAL, CANADA, and CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND – Liminal BioSciences Inc. (Nasdaq: LMNL) (“Liminal BioSciences” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, announced today that the Company has signed a binding Share Purchase Agreement for the sale to Kedrion S.p.A. (“Kedrion”) of its plasma collection centers operated in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Amherst,...
CARLSBAD, Calif. – Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (NYSE American and TASE: LCTX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel cell transplants for serious medical conditions, today announced a worldwide license and development collaboration agreement with Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc., (“ITI”), a privately-held clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering the study of nucleic acid immunotherapy platforms. The collaboration...