Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Redx got back on track to resume clinical evaluation of RXC004 in patients with advanced solid tumours in the first half of 2019.
Bavarian Nordic said Friday that the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has exercised $44 million option under the ongoing contract for freeze-dried MVA-BN smallpox vaccine.
Erytech Pharma today presents poster entitled about A randomized, phase 3 study of eryaspase in combination with chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone as second-line treatment in patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma, in an event in San Francisco.
AgeneBio has enrolled its first out of 830 patient in a Phase 3 clinical trial of its investigational medication AGB101, to treat amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment due to Alzheimer’s Disease (MCI due to AD).
Announcing the approval of Teva’s Sabril generic tablets, FDA Commissioner, Scott Gottlieb said that prioritizing the approval of generic drugs to compete with medicines that face little or no competition is the Agency’s key part of efforts to support access and reduce drug costs to patients.
PledPharma will present its “first in class” drug candidate PledOx phase III program at the Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancers Symposium, taking place in San Francisco today and tomorrow.
Actelion Pharmaceuticals will need to provide more data to evaluate the use of Opsumit in the treatment of adults with inoperable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.
Roche will wait until September 2019 for the FDA’s decision, before it can combine Tecentriq with Abraxane and carboplatin for the first-line treatment of lung cancer patients, who don’t have EGFR or ALK genomic tumour aberrations.
Innovent Biologics has started testing on patients its Tyvyt, fully human anti-PD-1 therapeutic monoclonal antibody, with generic name sintilimab injection, in combination with capecitabine and oxaliplatin, patients with advanced, recurrent or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma (GC or GEJ).
Aquinnah Pharmaceuticals got $750,000 from the Tau Pipeline Enabling Program (T-PEP) to advance its drug development programs in tauopathy diseases.