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SHANGHAI, China and ROSELAND, New Jersey – Oricell Therapeutics (Oricell), a clinical-stage biotechnology company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the company’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application for OriCAR-017 for patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (R/R MM). OriCAR-017 is a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T...
Espoo, Finland – Orion Corporation (Orion Pharma) announces initiation of a Phase 2 trial evaluating ODM-212, a potential best-in-class, oral pan-TEAD inhibitor, as a monotherapy in malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) and epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE), which are rare and difficult to treat cancers. The Phase 2 study is designed to further...
Espoo, Finland – Orion presented last week at the 2024 ASCO GU Cancers Symposium a poster with additional data from the ongoing Phase II CYPIDES trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of ODM-208 (or MK-5684), an investigational, oral CYP11A1 inhibitor, in heavily pretreated patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC)...
QUINCY, Mass. – The Orphan Drug Act (ODA) celebrates its birthday on January 3. The year 2024 marks 41 years of revolutionizing drug development for rare diseases and helping millions of patients in the process. More than 25 million Americans have some kind of rare disease, defined as a condition...
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. — Orsini Specialty Pharmacy has been selected by AstraZeneca and Ionis as the exclusive specialty pharmacy partner for WAINUA™ (eplontersen), an FDA-approved treatment for adults living with hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloid polyneuropathy (commonly referred to as hATTR-PN or ATTRv-PN). WAINUA is a subcutaneous injection that can be self-administered,...
MENLO PARK, Calif. — OrsoBio, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for obesity and related metabolic disorders, today announced positive topline results from a Phase 2a proof-of-concept study (NCT06564584) evaluating TLC-2716, the Company’s oral, liver-targeted liver X receptor (LXR) inverse agonist, in patients with severe hypertriglyceridemia (SHTG) and metabolic dysfunction–associated...