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...
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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...
San Diego, California – The phase 2 trial PrE0405 met its primary endpoint, achieving a complete response (CR) rate of 85% in 33 patients over the age of 60 with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) who received bendamustine and rituximab, a standard chemo-immunotherapy treatment, along with venetoclax, which is investigational in...
Encinitas, Calif. — Ventyx Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: VTYX) (“Ventyx”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on advancing novel oral therapies that address a broad range of inflammatory diseases with significant unmet medical need, announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2022, and highlighted recent pipeline...
BOSTON – AVEO Oncology (Nasdaq: AVEO), a commercial and clinical development stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced results from a randomized confirmatory Phase 2 study of ficlatuzumab as a single agent or in combination with cetuximab (ERBITUX®), an EGFR-targeted antibody, in patients who relapsed or were refractory to prior immunotherapy, chemotherapy,...
MUNICH, Germany — VeonGen Therapeutics, a clinical-stage genetic medicine company developing next-generation gene therapies, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation to VG801, its lead investigational gene therapy for Stargardt disease and other ABCA4 mutation–associated retinal dystrophies. By delivering a...