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Cambridge, England – AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi (durvalumab) and Lynparza (olaparib) have been approved in the European Union (EU) as treatment for certain patients with primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer. Imfinzi plus chemotherapy as 1st-line treatment followed by Lynparza and Imfinzi has been approved for patients with mismatch repair proficient (pMMR)...
WILMINGTON, Del. — Updated exploratory results from the TOPAZ-1 Phase III trial showed AstraZeneca’s IMFINZI® (durvalumab) in combination with standard-of-care chemotherapy demonstrated a clinically meaningful long-term overall survival (OS) benefit at three years for patients with advanced biliary tract cancer (BTC). These results from TOPAZ-1, which are the longest survival...
WILMINGTON, Del. – Positive high-level results from a pre-specified interim analysis of the Phase III TULIP-SC trial in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) showed that the subcutaneous (SC) administration of AstraZeneca’s SAPHNELO® (anifrolumab) demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful reduction in disease activity compared to placebo.1 The safety...
Cambridge, England – AstraZeneca on Monday released high-level results from the Phase III LAURA study, demonstrating clinical benefit for Tagrisso (osimertinib) as a maintenance treatment for patients with unresectable, stage III, EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer. The pharma did not reveal specific data in its announcement but said that Tagrisso...
BOSTON, Mass. — Astria Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATXS), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing life-changing therapies for allergic and immunological diseases, today announced positive initial proof-of-concept results from the ALPHA-STAR Phase 1b/2 clinical trial evaluating STAR-0215, a monoclonal antibody inhibitor of plasma kallikrein, in hereditary angioedema (HAE) patients. Initial results demonstrate...
BOSTON, Mass. — Astria Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATXS), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing life-changing therapies for allergic and immunologic diseases, today announced the initiation of the Phase 3 ORBIT-EXPANSE long-term trial of navenibart in people living with hereditary angioedema (HAE). “The initiation of ORBIT-EXPANSE marks exciting progress in the development of...
AUSTIN, Texas — Natera, Inc., a global leader in cell-free DNA testing, presented new data on its personalized and tumor-informed molecular residual disease (MRD) test, Signatera™,  at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s 2024 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium (ASCO GI), that took place January 18 – 20, 2024 in San Francisco,...
STOCKHOLM — Calliditas Therapeutics AB (Nasdaq: CALT, Nasdaq Stockholm: CALTX) (“Calliditas”), today announced data presentations highlighting additional analyses from the Phase 3 NefIgArd study with Nefecon in adults with primary IgA nephropathy (IgAN), as well as pre-clinical data on the treatment of Alport syndrome with setanaxib, a novel NOX inhibitor,...
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. —  Atara Biotherapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRA), a leader in T-cell immunotherapy, leveraging its novel allogeneic Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) T-cell platform to develop transformative therapies for patients with cancer and autoimmune diseases, today announced its recent submission of an Investigational New Drug (IND) application to the U.S. Food...
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.- Atara Biotherapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRA), a pioneer in T-cell immunotherapy, leveraging its novel allogeneic EBV T-cell platform to develop transformative therapies for patients with serious diseases including solid tumors, hematologic cancers and autoimmune disease, today announced a combined long-term overall survival (OS) analysis from three clinical...