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Could an Antibody Drug Help You Shed Pounds?

The Pharma Data

2, 2020 — An experimental antibody drug that targets one of the body’s key metabolism regulators may help obese people lose weight — at least briefly. That’s one finding from an early study that tested the injection drug, which mimics the effects of a natural hormone called fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21).

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Patient Safety and Radiopharmaceuticals Administration: Minimizing Radiation Exposure and Risks

Worldwide Clinical Trials

With radiopharmaceuticals emerging as a diagnostic and therapeutic (theranostics) procedure, many are in the clinical development pipeline and are expected to play a crucial role in the future of healthcare. The goal is to deliver a precise radiation dose to the diseased tissues while minimizing damage to surrounding healthy tissue.

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Buparlisib hydrochloride by Adlai Nortye Biopharma for Mantle Cell Lymphoma: Likelihood of Approval

Pharmaceutical Technology

Buparlisib hydrochloride is under clinical development by Adlai Nortye Biopharma and currently in Phase II for Mantle Cell Lymphoma. Adlai Nortye utilizes PAINT-2D and ANEAT-Id platform technologies to identify and develop immunotherapies and antibodies. Adlai Nortye is headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

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Merck & Co buys cancer biotech VelosBio for $2.75bn

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Its lead candidate in clinical development is VLS-101, an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) targeting ROR1 that is being tested in a phase 1 and a phase 2 clinical trial for patients with blood cancer and solid tumours, respectively. The transaction is expected to close at the end of 2020.

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Amgen’s GLP-1 Drug MariTide Delivers Solid Weight Loss Results in Trial but Fails to Impress Analysts

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Amgens randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase II study enrolled 592 adults with obesity or overweight conditions, defined by a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or 27, respectively, with at least one obesity-related comorbidity.

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Amgen’s GLP-1 Drug MariTide Delivers Solid Weight Loss Results in Trial but Fails to Impress Analysts

XTalks

Amgen’s randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase II study enrolled 592 adults with obesity or overweight conditions, defined by a body mass index (BMI) of ≥30 or ≥27, respectively, with at least one obesity-related comorbidity.

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Risk adjusted net present value: What is the current valuation of Chinook Therapeutics’s Atrasentan Hydrochloride?

Pharmaceutical Technology

The rNPV model is a more conservative valuation measure that accounts for the risk of a drug in clinical development failing to progress. formerly Aduro BioTech Inc is a clinical-stage immunotherapy company that discovers, develops and commercializes therapies for the treatment of cancer.

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