SEATTLE – Chinook Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: KDNY), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of precision medicines for kidney diseases, today announced that Tom Frohlich, chief business officer, has been promoted to chief operating officer (COO) of Chinook and Andrew King, D.V.M, Ph.D., head of renal discovery and translational...
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Enrollment ongoing in atrasentan pivotal phase 3 ALIGN study in IgAN and phase 2 AFFINITY study in proteinuric glomerular diseases Chinook expects to present data from the IgAN patient cohort of the phase 2 AFFINITY study in the first half of 2022, with data from one or more additional cohorts expected...
CHENGDU, China — Chengdu Chipscreen NewWay Biosciences Co., Ltd. announced that on January 5, 2024, the dosing of the first patient for a phase I clinical trial of a PD-1/CD40 bispecific antibody (bsAb), NWY001, at Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center in China, the trial-leading institution. The trial is a multi-center,...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. – PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTCT), today announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended the approval of Evrysdi™ (risdiplam) for the treatment of 5q spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in patients 2 months and older, with a clinical...
PRINCETON, N.J. — Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended approval of Opdivo® (nivolumab) in combination with cisplatin and gemcitabine for the first-line treatment of adult patients with unresectable or metastatic urothelial...
Basel – Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended the approval of ENSPRYNG® (satralizumab) as the first subcutaneous treatment option for adults and adolescents from 12 years of age living with anti-aquaporin-4 antibody...
SYDNEY, Australia — Imugene Limited (ASX: IMU), a clinical stage immuno-oncology company, is pleased to announce that enrolment has opened for its expansion study in bile tract cancer (cholangiocarcinoma) patients, having completed the fifth, high dose cohort in the intratumoural (IT) arm of the monotherapy dose escalation study evaluating its...
NEW YORK, NY – Hard-to-detect colorectal pre-cancerous lesions known as serrated polyps, and the aggressive tumors that develop from them, depend heavily on the ramped-up production of cholesterol, according to a preclinical study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine. The finding points to the possibility of using cholesterol-lowering drugs to...
Philadelphia, PA – Chimeric Antigen Receptors (CARs) have opened up an exciting new field of therapeutic advancements for rare and difficult-to-treat cancers, as they have the ability to deliver targeted therapies that can kill tumor cells. Peptide-centric CARs (PC-CARs) rely on specific peptide “barcodes,” which are derived from proteins within...
PHILADELPHIA – Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have identified a key target that may be responsible for treatment failure in about 30% of patients with hemophilia A. The target, known as B cell activating factor (BAFF), appears to promote antibodies against and inhibitors of the missing blood clotting factor that...