Adding liposomal irinotecan (LI) to fluorouracil and leucovorin (FL) significantly improved survival in patients with previously treated, metastatic biliary tract cancer, according to research published in The Lancet Oncology. In the phase 2b NIFTY trial (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03524508), researchers compared second-line LI plus FL with FL alone in patients with metastatic biliary...
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COLUMBIA, Mo. ― Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine found that a targeted gene therapy may make acute myeloid leukemia (AML) more sensitive to chemotherapy, while also protecting the heart against toxicity often caused by cancer treatments. Acute myeloid leukemia is the most common type of leukemia...
Göteborg, Sweden – Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is associated with damaging protein aggregates in the brain, with β-amyloid (Aβ) aggregates called plaques being the key pathology. Entresto (sacubitril/valsartan) is a combined neprilysin inhibitor and angiotensin receptor blocker, approved for the treatment of heart failure. Concerns were raised by the FDA that...
Clinicohematologic complete response (CHCR) rates demonstrated that pegylated interferon alpha-2a was the most effective treatment for patients with essential thrombocythemia (ET), according to results of a real-world comparison with hydroxyurea and ruxolitinib in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) reported in Hematology. The Philadelphia chromosome-negative MPNs (polycythemia vera [PV], ET, and myelofibrosis...
BOSTON – Compass Therapeutics, Inc. (OTC:CMPX) provided an update on the clinical development of CTX-009 (also known as ABL001), a dual anti-angiogenic bispecific antibody targeting DLL4 and VEGF-A. A Phase 2a study for CTX-009 in combination with paclitaxel was initiated by Handok Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (KOSDAQ: 002390) in Q1 2021 in...
LEXINGTON, Mass. — Partner Therapeutics, Inc. (PTx) announced today the publication of a comprehensive review by Mora et al. in the International Journal of Cancer which summarizes the efficacy and safety of anti-GD2 monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) (dinutuximab, dinutuximab beta, and naxitamab) in children with high-risk neuroblastoma when given in combination with Leukine...
Norwood, MA – Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRBP) (“Corbus” or the “Company”), an immunology company developing innovative medicines that target inflammation, fibrosis, metabolism and immuno-oncology, announced topline results from the Phase 3 DETERMINE study of lenabasum in adults with the rare, heterogeneous, autoimmune disease dermatomyositis. Primary endpoint: The study...
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Corcept Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: CORT), a commercial-stage company engaged in the discovery and development of medications to treat severe endocrinologic, oncologic, metabolic and neurologic disorders by modulating the effects of the hormone cortisol, today announced completion of enrollment in GRADIENT, a Phase 3 trial of its...
BURLINGAME, Calif. — Corvus Pharmaceuticals, Inc (NASDAQ: CRVS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Orphan Drug Designation for soquelitinib for the treatment of T-cell lymphoma. Soquelitinib, the Company’s lead ITK inhibitor candidate, is expected to advance into a Phase 3 registrational...
Boston, Mass. – In the early 1990s, Mike McCune and his colleagues thought they’d found a path to a one-time HIV treatment for babies: genetically modifying hematopoietic stem cells to suppress the virus and then transplanting them into the bone marrow. But the treatment never made it to clinical trials....