Prometic Life Sciences Inc. (TSX: PLI) (OTCQX: PFSCF) (Prometic) announced positive interim six-month clinical data from its ongoing pivotal IVIG Phase 3 clinical trial in patients suffering from primary immunodeficiencies (PID) following review of the data by the Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB), which confirmed no significant safety issues and that efficacy appeared to be comparable to existing commercial IVIG products.
A study has found an unexpected new drug target for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) that could open new avenues to develop effective treatments against this potentially lethal disease. Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the Gurdon Institute and their collaborators show that inhibiting the METTL3 gene destroys human and mouse AML cells without harming non-leukaemic blood cells.
Roche’s Erivedge will indeed no longer be funded on the National Health Service(NHS) as a treatment for skin cancer after cost regulators issued final guidance ruling that it is not cost effective.
Chinese biotech groups are on target to raise about $10bn this year from venture capital funding, initial public offerings and licensing deals with overseas pharma companies, in what is partly a bet that Chinese-developed drugs can compete globally.
On Friday, November 17, Genentech, a Roche company, sued Pfizer in a federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, over Pfizer’s biosimilar for Genentech’s Herceptin. Genentech is claiming that Pfizer’s proposed biosimilar infringes 40 of its patents. Genentech also is demanding compensation for lost sales if Pfizer launches its copycat version before the Herceptin patents expire.
The latest BTD was granted for the treatment of adult patients with advanced anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have not received prior treatment with an ALK inhibitor.
An estimated 300 million Chinese people are smokers. China has also a serious issue with hazardous air pollution. Here concentrations of small, breathable particles (PM2.5) invariably exceeding 300 micrograms per cubic meter in the industrialized northern regions.
Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) have identified another cancer-surface molecule, CD22, and begun trials on B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients using an immuno-oncology approach similar to CAR-T. In the Phase I trial, 15 of the 21 patients who had previously relapsed or did not respond to anti-CD19 CAR-T, were treated with an anti-CD22 CAR-T therapy. Ten of the 15 patients had already received treatment for CD19-targeted treatment.
NHS England says it is planning to accelerate the NHS’ national research strategy, “cutting bureaucracy and speeding up access to new and innovative treatments”.
Twice on Thursday, Genentech, scored two approvals from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) – a new medicine for hemophilia and an expansion for its cancer drug Gazyva.
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