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FDA Fast Tracks Candel Therapeutics’ Novel Treatment for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

Pharmaceutical Executive Editorial Staff Study results show an estimated 71.4% survival rate after both 24 and 36 months with aglatimagene besadenovec (CAN-2409) in combination with valacyclovir for the treatment of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma compared with 16.7% in the control group. The FDA granted Fast Track Designation to Candel Therapeutics, Inc’s aglatimagene besadenovec (CAN-2409) in combination with valacyclovir for the treatment of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC).1 The novel off-the-shelf therapy is administered by a localized injection that is believed to provide a safety benefit compared with standard systemic administration in this patient population. “We are pleased with the FDA’s decision to grant fast track designation for CAN-2409 in pancreatic cancer,” said Paul Peter Tak, MD, PhD, FMedSci, president and chief executive officer of Candel Therapeutics, in a press release.1 “This milestone follows our first interim data report from the randomized Phase II clinical trial in patients with ...
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Goldman Sachs Closes $650M Fund to Invest in ‘Golden Era’ of Biotech Innovation

Goldman Sachs’s new fund—its first dedicated to life sciences—will focus on early- to mid-stage therapeutics companies with multiple assets. Genetic medicine, cell therapy, immunotherapy, and artificial intelligence are among the areas of investment interest for the firm. By FRANK VINLUAN Goldman Sachs Asset Management has expanded to biotech investments in recent years. The investment firm is now preparing to ramp up its investment activity in the sector with a new $650 million fund, its first dedicated to the life sciences. Goldman on Wednesday announced the final close of the new fund, called West Street Life Sciences I. About $90 million from this fund has already been committed to five biotech companies in its portfolio: MOMA Therapeutics, Nested Therapeutics, TORL Biotherapeutics, Septerna, and Rapport Therapeutics. With the new fund, Goldman said the focus will be on growth-oriented private equity investments in the life sciences, which it’s defining as early- to mid-stage ...
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百济神州PD-1抑制剂百泽安®（替雷利珠单抗）在中国获批第12项适应症,用于肝细胞癌一线治疗

中国北京、美国麻省剑桥和瑞士巴塞尔——2024年1月2日——百济神州（纳斯达克代码：BGNE；香港联交所代码：06160；上交所代码：688235）是一家全球性生物科技公司。公司今日宣布其PD-1抑制剂百泽安®（替雷利珠单抗）新适应症已获中国国家药品监督管理局（NMPA）批准，单药用于不可切除或转移性肝细胞癌（HCC）患者的一线治疗。肝癌是中国常见的高发恶性肿瘤。2020年中国肝癌新发病例约41万，约占全球总数的一半；死亡病例约39.1万，是中国第二大肿瘤致死病因1。70%-80%的肝癌患者在诊断时已经是中晚期2，失去了手术或其他局部治疗机会，临床预后较差，5年生存率仅为12.1%3，亟需更多治疗手段改善患者生存。百济神州高级副总裁、全球研发负责人汪来博士表示：“中国的HCC发病率近年来持续上升，存在较大的未被满足的临床需求。此次获批是替雷利珠单抗在肝癌领域的又一突破性进展，丰富了晚期HCC患者的一线治疗选择。我们期待这一全新的治疗方案能够惠及更多肝癌患者，进一步提升肝癌患者的生存获益。” 本次获批是基于RATIONALE 301（NCT03412773）的临床试验数据。该试验是一项随机、开放性的全球3期临床研究，从亚洲、欧洲和美国各研究中心共入组674例患者，旨在评估替雷利珠单抗对比索拉非尼作为不可切除的HCC成人患者一线治疗的效果。此前，RATIONALE 301试验结果以最新突破口头报告的形式，公布于2022年在法国巴黎举办的欧洲肿瘤内科学会（ESMO）大会，并于今年荣登肿瘤领域著名期刊《美国医学会杂志-肿瘤学》（JAMA Oncology）。研究结果显示：与索拉非尼相比，替雷利珠单抗展示出在总生存期（OS）上的非劣效性结果。替雷利珠单抗的中位OS为15.9个月，而索拉非尼的OS为14.1个月；替雷利珠单抗具有更高的客观缓解率（ORR）（14.3% vs 5.4%）和更持久的缓解（中位缓解持续时间DoR分别为36.1个月和 11.0个月）；替雷利珠单抗和索拉非尼治疗的安全性特征与既往研究一致。中国药科大学附属南京天印山医院消化系统肿瘤首席专家和RATIONALE 301 试验的全球牵头研究者（Leading PI）秦叔逵教授表示：“RATIONALE 301是一项由中国专家主导的、具有前瞻性的、随机对照、全球多中心3期注册临床试验。在设计和优化研究方案阶段，就兼顾东、西方肝癌的高度异质性，同时充分结合中国国情、病人特点和实践经验；试验过程中科学实施，严格质控，数据翔实，从而获得了预期的结果，为晚期肝细胞癌患者的一线免疫治疗提供了新的选择和可靠的依据。” 秦教授进一步表示，“替雷利珠单抗在本项试验中，单药一线治疗肝癌即展现出优良的有效性、安全性和耐受性，带来了明显的生存获益，具有重要的临床价值。可以相信此次替雷利珠单抗获批一线治疗晚期肝细胞癌适应症后，除了可以单药使用，还将推动含替雷利珠单抗联合方案的临床应用及研究进展，为众多的肝癌患者带来生的希望。” 至此，替雷利珠单抗已有12项适应症获得NMPA批准，是目前在中国获批适应症数量最多的PD-1抑制剂，其中11项适应症已全部纳入国家医保药品目录，也是纳入国家医保药品目录获批适应症数量最多的PD-1抑制剂。网址： https://www.beigene.com.cn/pressreleases/%e7%99%be%e6%b5%8e%e7%a5%9e%e5%b7%9epd-1%e6%8a%91%e5%88%b6%e5%89%82%e7%99%be%e6%b3%bd%e5%ae%89%ef%bc%88%e6%9b%bf%e9%9b%b7%e5%88%a9%e7%8f%a0%e5%8d%95%e6%8a%97%ef%bc%89%e5%9c%a8%e4%b8%ad%e5%9b%bd/
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Nearly three million people received urgent NHS cancer checks in 2023

The number of people getting tested over the last decade has increased by 133% The NHS has announced a new analysis showing its highest year on record for providing urgent cancer checks over the last year. Almost three million people in the UK received cancer checks between November 2022 and October 2023. In alignment with the health service’s goal of catching cancer earlier, the new analysis has shown a 133% increase in the number of people getting checked for cancer over the last decade. Between November 2022 and October 2023, over 2.9 million people were seen for urgent cancer checks, an increase of 147,960 people between 2021 and 2022. In October alone, the NHS saw the highest month on record for cancer checks, as well as 269,492 urgent referrals and 192,889 people who received an all-clear or definitive cancer diagnosis. In addition to this, the NHS has made major progress ...
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BIO-THERA Signs License and Commercialization Agreement with Macter for BAT1706

BIO-THERA Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd (SSE: 688177), a global science-based and innovative biopharmaceutical company based in Guangzhou, China, hereinafter referred to as “BIO-THERA” or the “Company”, today announced that it has entered into a license and commercialization agreement with Macter International Limited (“Macter”) for BAT1706, an Anviva reference product. The Company announced today that it has entered into a license and commercialization agreement with Macter International Limited (“Macter”) for BAT1706, a biosimilar developed with reference to Avastin® bevacizumab. Under the terms of the agreement, Macter will have exclusive distribution and marketing rights for BAT1706 in Pakistan and Afghanistan. BAT1706 has completed global Phase III clinical studies, demonstrating a high degree of safety, efficacy, and immunogenicity similarity to the originator, and BAT1706 (PuperChi®) has been approved for marketing by the National Drug Administration (NMPA) of China in November 2021, and BAT1706 (Avzivi®) has been approved for marketing by the U.S. Food and ...
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Henlius to Release Clinical Data at 2024 ASCO GI

Shanghai, China, January 3rd, 2024 – Shanghai Henlius Biotech, Inc. (2696. HK) announced that the latest clinical data of two Henlius products, HLX22, an innovative anti-HER2 mAb, and the approved anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody (mAb) HANSIZHUANG (serplulimab), will be presented in posters at the 2024 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium (ASCO GI) in San Francisco, United States from January 18-20. HLX22 is an innovative anti-HER2 mAb that was introduced from AbClon, Inc. and further researched and developed by Henlius. HLX22 can bind to HER2 subdomain IV at a different binding site from trastuzumab, which allows the simultaneous binding of HLX22 and trastuzumab to HER2. The pre-clinical studies showed that the combination therapy of HLX22 and trastuzumab would inhibit the cell proliferation induced by epidermal growth factor (EGF) and Histidine-Rich Glycoprotein 1 (HRG1) and enhance the antitumor activity in vitro and in vivo. The phase 1 clinical trial of HLX22 demonstrates that HLX22 ...
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Nexletol partners Esperion and Daiichi Sankyo patch up milestone dispute with $125M settlement

After a dispute over milestone payments derailed a 2019 heart med collaboration, Daiichi Sankyo and Esperion Therapeutics have mended fences with a $125 million settlement. Under the new agreement, Daiichi will pay Esperion $100 million in the coming weeks before an anticipated label expansion in Europe for their bempedoic acid products Nilemdo and Nustendi, which are branded as Nexletol and Nexlizet, respectively, in the U.S. The company will pay a further $25 million in the quarter following the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) decision on whether to add language about a cardiovascular risk reduction to the drug’s label. Meanwhile, European manufacturing and supply responsibilities will change hands from Esperion to Daiichi, which will deliver “significant cost savings and efficiencies” to both companies, the partners said in a joint press release. Going forward, the two companies will expand their collaboration to potentially work on a triple-formulation product using bempedoic acid. Daiichi will ...
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Pfizer rings in New Year with hemophilia B gene therapy nod in Canada

After a pair of high-profile approvals for sickle cell disease gene therapies in the U.S. last month, Pfizer is ushering in the New Year with a regulatory endorsement for its hemophilia B gene therapy north of the border. Health Canada has approved Pfizer’s adeno-associated viral (AAV) vector-based gene therapy, Beqvez, for the treatment of certain adults with hemophilia B, the company said Wednesday. Specifically, the agency endorsed the drug to treat patients with moderate to severe disease who are negative for neutralizing antibodies to variant AAV serotype Rh74. The approval is based on an open-label, single-arm study called BENEGENE-2, which enrolled 45 patients and met its primary goal. In the study, Pfizer’s drug demonstrated noninferiority and superiority to the standard of care, a recurrent Factor IX regimen, on the measure of annualized bleeding rates. Traditionally, patients with hemophilia B have needed to receive routine infusions of Factor IX treatment to ...
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New Protein Risk Predicts Mortality Risk in Heart Failure Patients

Heart failure (HF) is a complex clinical condition characterized by high mortality rates. Existing methods for assessing the biological complexity of HF and determining clinical strategies are somewhat inadequate. High-throughput proteomics has the potential to enhance risk prediction; however, its practical application in managing HF patients requires robust validation and proven clinical advantages. Now, researchers have developed a new protein risk score that offers improved calibration and the potential to assist healthcare providers in more accurately determining the mortality risk in individuals with HF. Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA) have developed and validated a protein risk score to stratify mortality risk in persons with heart failure using a community-based cohort of 7,289 plasma proteins in 1,351 patients with HF using the SomaScan Assay from SomaLogic (Boulder, CO, USA). In the development cohort, the team chose 38 unique proteins for inclusion in the protein risk ...
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Automated Liquid Biopsy Detects Brain Tumor Cells in Children

Brain and other central nervous system (CNS) cancers are the primary cause of cancer-related deaths in children, ranking as the second most prevalent form of childhood cancer following leukemia. For treating CNS tumors, healthcare professionals traditionally rely on a series of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to gauge the effectiveness of treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. However, MRI scans have limitations, particularly in detecting microscopic diseases that might signal residual or recurring cancer cells. To bridge this gap, scientists have been on a quest to identify reliable, tumor-specific biomarkers. Prior research in adults has demonstrated that primary tumors release circulating tumor cells (CTCs) into the bloodstream, suggesting that CTCs could serve as dependable biomarkers for CNS tumors. A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, TX, USA) aimed to determine the effectiveness of a liquid biopsy tool designed to detect ...
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