WASHINGTON, DC — Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Vanda) (Nasdaq: VNDA) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation for VGT-1849B, a selective peptide nucleic acid-based JAK2 inhibitor for the treatment of polycythemia vera (PV). PV is a chronic myeloproliferative disorder characterized by aberrant hematopoiesis of myeloid lineage...
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WASHINGTON, DC — Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the publication of an article titled “Efficacy and Safety of Iloperidone in Bipolar Mania: A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study” in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. The findings of this pivotal study have been submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as...
WASHINGTON, DC — Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc., today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Investigational New Drug (IND) application to evaluate VCA-894A for the treatment of a patient with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, axonal, type 2S (CMT2S), caused by cryptic splice site variants within the IGHMBP2 gene. CMT2S...
Nashville, TN – By mapping the cellular and molecular geography of colorectal cancer, Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers collaboratively have discovered why most colorectal tumors escape detection and destruction by the body’s immune system. Their findings, reported in the journal Cell, could lead to new ways to...
After ENHERTU®, VANFLYTA® is the second innovative medicine from the Daiichi Sankyo oncology pipeline to be available in Canada Approval based on QuANTUM-First results demonstrating VANFLYTA added to chemotherapy improved overall survival TORONTO, Canada – Daiichi Sankyo’s (TSE: 4568) VANFLYTA (quizartinib) has been approved by Health Canada for use in combination with standard cytarabine and...
A set of expert consensus-based, quality-of-care indicators identified considerable variability in the quality of pancreatic cancer care among hospitals and may be used to evaluate and identify areas for improvement, according to a new study in the June 9 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Factors...
PARIS – Variant, a company dedicated to developing innovative treatments for inherited eye orphan diseases, announces the decision of the European Commission to grant Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) for VAR002 for the treatment of Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) and Cone-rod dystrophy (CORD). The decision is based on a positive opinion...
SUMMIT, N.J. — Vascarta Inc., a healthspan focused, clinical stage biopharmaceutical company advancing safe, patient friendly therapies for pain, inflammation, and, in collaboration with the City University of New York (CUNY), announce the publication of a preclinical study demonstrating that STO-1, a first-in-class drug candidate, can selectively eliminate glioblastoma (GBM)...
BASEL, Switzerland — Vaximm AG, a subsidiary of OSR Holdings, Inc. and a pioneering biotechnology company focused on developing innovative immunotherapies, today announced final data from the successful conclusion of its open-label Phase 2a clinical trial assessing the safety and tolerability of VXM01, an investigational oral anti-VEGFR-2 vaccine, in combination...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – VBI Vaccines Inc. (Nasdaq: VBIV) (VBI), a biopharmaceutical company driven by immunology in the pursuit of powerful prevention and treatment of disease, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Fast Track Designation for VBI-1901, VBI’s cancer vaccine immunotherapeutic candidate for the treatment of...