Eisai Co., Ltd. (CEO: Haruo Naito, "Eisai") and Purdue Pharma L.P. (President and CEO: Craig Landau, "Purdue Pharma") today announced positive topline results from multiple studies of lemborexant, an investigational agent for sleep and wake regulation currently being studied for the treatment of multiple sleep disorders.
Rani Therapeutics, the developer of a pill designed to replace injectable drug delivery for patients suffering from chronic diseases, today announced that it has raised $53 million to invest in manufacturing in preparation for human clinical trials. This investment brings the total raised to $142 million in funding.
Sanofi has found yet another partner to help digitize its clinical trial processes. In a statement, TriNetX announced that it will be assisting the pharmaceutical company by using patient EHRs to optimize recruitment, streamline trial investigators’ workflows, and otherwise impact the design of investigational drug trials. Sanofi has made similar arrangements to bolster its clinical trials with Science 37 and Evidation in March and July of last year, respectively.
AstraZeneca has GlaxoSmithKline and its chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) treatment Trelegy Ellipta squarely in its sights. This morning, AstraZeneca revealed Phase III data that shows its experimental three-in-one inhaler PT010 improved lung function in patients.
Amgen’s migraine drug Aimovig continues to impress with its efficacy in late-stage studies. On Monday, the company revealed Phase IIIb data that demonstrated the drug is also effective in reducing the number of episodic headaches in patients who have not responded to previous treatments.
The experimental drug J147 is something of a modern elixir of life; it’s been shown to treat Alzheimer’s disease and reverse aging in mice and is almost ready for clinical trials in humans.
The China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) has announced new and updated regulations for medical device registration, testing and clinical trial requirements in the early days of 2018.
AbbVie’s investigational JAK1-inhibitor upadacitinib yielded positive top-line results in a Phase III trial as a monotherapy for rheumatoid arthritis patients. But the drug shows that it is still plagued by some safety concerns.
Hutchison China MediTech Limited (“Chi-Med”) (AIM/Nasdaq: HCM) has initiated the United States Phase I bridging clinical trial of fruquintinib. Fruquintinib is a highly selective and potent oral inhibitor of vascular endothelial growth factor receptors (“VEGFR”) 1, 2 and 3, that has met its primary endpoint in several Phase II and III clinical trials in China for the treatment of colorectal, lung and gastric cancers. The clinical study in the U.S. is a multi-center, open-label, Phase I clinical study to evaluate the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of fruquintinib in U.S. patients with advanced solid tumors. The first drug dose was administered earlier this month. Additional details about this study may be found at clinicaltrials.gov, using identifier NCT03251378.
Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (IONS) announced today that Roche has exercised its option to license IONIS-HTTRx following the completion of a Phase 1/2a randomized, placebo-controlled, dose escalation study of IONIS-HTTRx in people with Huntington's disease (HD). Roche will now be responsible for all development and commercial activities. IONIS-HTTRx is the first therapy in clinical development designed to target the underlying cause of HD by reducing the production of the toxic mutant huntingtin protein (mHTT). In conjunction with the decision to license IONIS-HTTRx, Ionis earned a $45 million license fee from Roche.
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