Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Novartis’s Phase III Cantos study of ACZ885 (canakinumab), one of the largest in the company’s history, combined with standard of care in people with a prior heart attack and inflammatory atherosclerosis has met the primary endpoint.
ValiRx’s has formed an Advisory Board to support its main board in new strategic guidance and technical advice.
Herantis Pharma’s clinical study with its investigational gene therapy product Lymfactin for treating secondary lymphedema has advanced to the last patient cohort, owing to good reported safety, the company said Thursday.
Shield Therapeutics’s study suggests that ferric maltol may be effective in patients with active inflammatory markers, and that the ongoing comparative trial of ferric maltol against iv iron will be useful to challenge the prevalent doctrine prohibiting treatment of patients with active systemic inflammation with oral iron.
In a daily briefing, Daily Stock Tracker (DST) gave some insight on certain biotech stocks, noting that companies in this space are almost always unprofitable, and many have no real revenue at all.
Mylan N.V. <MYL.O> is best known for producing EpiPen emergency allergy treatments and generic drugs.
Johnson & Johnson is seizing upon a U.S. Supreme Court ruling from Monday limiting where injury lawsuits can be filed to fight off claims it failed to warn women that talcum powder could cause ovarian cancer.
Announcing the phase 2 testing on Monday, the company said that the multicenter study of EC-18 (Mosedipimod), the world’s first oral medicine candidate to prevent and treat Chemotherapy-Induced Neutropenia (CIN), will begin dosing its first patient in the Asan Medical Center of Seoul, Korea. Enzychem also said it hopes to have EC-18 be approved by the FDA.
Enable Injections debuts the first multi-vial/multi syringe system for biologics delivery. The small, handheld device can also be used for variable dosing based on patient’s weight, providing maximum flexibility and ease of use with a minimum of waste.
Sanovas, Inc., a Life Science technology company will establish a venture capital fund and Innovation Center at the Suzhou Institute of Nanotechnology and NanoBionics (SINANO) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences to advance the company’s innovations and sales in China.