Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Xarelto (rivaroxaban) for the prevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE), or blood clots, in hospitalized acutely ill medical patients at risk for thromboembolic complications who are not at high risk of bleeding, Janssen said Monday in a press release.
Novartis will work with Microsogt to establish AI innovation lab to empower its associates to use AI across the business, on Novartis Campus (Switzerland), at Novartis Global Service Center in Dublin, and at Microsoft Research Lab (UK) – starting with tackling personalized therapies for macular degeneration; cell & gene therapy; and drug design.
Kangpu Biopharmaceuticals has completed a first-in-human phase I single ascending dose (SAD) clinical study in the United States, testing KPG-818 for the treatment of SLE and hematological malignancies.
FDA has granted to Boehringer Ingelheim a breakthrough therapy designation for Ofev, for Chronic Fibrosing ILDs with a Progressive Phenotype, after the study results from the Phase III testing met its primary endpoint and was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
MGB Biopharma has announced promising phase IIa clinical trial update for oral formulation MGB-BP-3, a potent oral bactericidal antibiotic targeting Clostridium Difficile-Associated Diarrhoea (CDAD), with – as it said in a press release – a completely novel mode of action.
Heidelberg Pharma reported that its net loss for the first nine months of the fiscal year fell to €5.6 million from previous year’s €7.4 million, referring the result to the sales revenue and income totaling €6.7 million, from €3.5 million in the same period last year.
Novartis has received FDA approval for Beovu, the only anti-VEGF in wet AMD recommended to maintain eligible patients on up to three-month dosing intervals immediately after the loading phase with no compromise in efficacy, for AMD patients, which are in risk from causes blindness and loss of independence.
Annie Martin, Global Head of Presicion Medicine, has discussed the future of targeted therapy and genomic profiling, describing how to…
Biom’up SA, a specialist in surgical hemostasis, announces its flagship product, HEMOBLAST Bellows, has been approved for open as well as laparoscopic surgery by the Australian TGA regulatory authority for commercialization in the sizeable and growing Australian market.
Kodiak Sciences will present emerging data from the Phase 1b clinical study of KSI-301 in treatment-naïve patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD), Diabetic Macular Edema (DME), and Retinal Vein Occlusion (RVO) in San Francisco, in an upcoming event, at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO).