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...
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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...
Philadelphia, PA – Researchers have found a potential new way to slow the progression of lung fibrosis and other fibrotic diseases by inhibiting the expression or function of Piezo2, a receptor that senses mechanical forces in tissues including stress, strain, and stiffness. The new study in The American Journal of...
Combination therapies including venetoclax and another therapy have displayed promising results against subtypes of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) that are particularly difficult to treat, including relapsed or refractory AML with a specific mutation, high-risk AML and treated secondary AML. Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center presented...
Venetoclax is considered a breakthrough treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). But venetoclax combination therapies do not seem to be as useful for treating acute myeloid leukemia that develops as a complication of myeloproliferative neoplasms, a condition known as post-MPN-AML, according to a study recently published in Blood Advances. Post-MPN-AML is...
Among patients with previously treated Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM), venetoclax appears to be both safe and effective regardless of CXCR4 status, according to research published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. WM, in which MYD88 and CXCR4 mutations are common, is defined by immunoglobin M secretion in major organs, including the...