Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Rituxan is used to treat blood cancers including non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (follicular lymphoma and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia, as well as immunological diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new indication for Novo Nordisk’s Victoza (liraglutide) to reduce the risk of major adverse cardiovascular (CV) events in adults with type 2 diabetes and established CV disease.
European Commission (EC) approved Novartis’s Kisqali (ribociclib) in combination with an aromatase inhibitor for treatment of postmenopausal women with hormone receptor positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 negative (HR+/HER2-) locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer as initial endocrine-based therapy.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved updated labeling for Gilead Sciences’s Epclusa (sofosbuvir 400mg/velpatasvir 100mg), the first all-oral, pan-genotypic, once-daily single tablet regimen (STR) for the treatment of adults with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, to include use in patients co-infected with HIV.
AstraZeneca today announced that the European Commission (EC) has approved Faslodex (fulvestrant) for certain metastatic breast cancer in postmenopausal women not previously treated with endocrine therapy.
Quantum Genomics, a biopharmaceutical company focused on cardiovascular diseases, has a completed placement and a capital increase, including the removal of preferential subscription rights, reserved for a category of beneficiaries.
Ablynx was granted Fast Track designation for caplacizumab, by the that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). That’s the company’s first-in-class anti-von Willebrand factor (vWF) Nanobody developed for the treatment of acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (aTTP).
Verona Pharma, a respiratory disease-focused drugmaker, said on Wednesday that the first patients have been dosed in a Phase 2b clinical trial testing RPL554 as a maintenance treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Verona Pharma expects to report top-line data from this trial in the second half of 2018.
Midatech Pharma has prepared its candidate MTD119 (previously MTR104) for advanced liver cancer for the clinical testings, in a pre-clinical programme that included three subcutaneous or orthotopic liver cancer xenograft models treated with the active cytotoxic compound maytansine conjugated with Midatech’s gold nanoparticle (GNP) technology.
Cellectis, a French clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing immunotherapies based on gene-edited CAR T-cells (UCART), on Tuesday announced a patent grant by the European Patent Office, for the invention of using RNA-guided endonucleases, such as Cas9 or Cpf1 for the genetic engineering of T-cells.