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Clinical Trials for Celiac Disease: Insights from Beyond Celiac’s Kate Avery

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When a person with celiac disease eats something that contains gluten, their immune system attacks their small intestine, damaging the lining and interfering with the absorption of nutrients from food. A blood test can detect antibodies to gluten, but a definitive diagnosis requires a biopsy of the small intestine.

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Therapeutic antibodies in the fight against Alzheimer’s

Drug Discovery World

ImmunoBrain Checkpoint (IBC) is currently dosing patients in a clinical trial with its monoclonal antibody for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). MT: Can you provide an overview of your career to date in the field of therapeutic antibodies, and its importance in the field of neuroimmunology?

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Biologic CAR T cell engager approved for UK clinical trial

Drug Discovery World

The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has granted Aleta Biotherapeutics a clinical trial authorisation (CTA) to evaluate biologic ALETA-001 in a Phase I/II clinical trial in patients with B-cell malignancies who are relapsed/refractory to CD19 CAR T cell therapy.

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AI-designed monoclonal antibody ‘redirects’ the immune system

Drug Discovery World

Immuno-oncology company Aulos Bioscience has revealed interim results from an ongoing Phase I/II trial of monoclonal antibody AU-007 in solid tumours. AU-007 is a human IgG1 monoclonal antibody designed using artificial intelligence to harness the power of interleukin-2 (IL-2) to eradicate solid tumours. “In

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Regeneron’s Antibody Drug Becomes First Approved Treatment for Ebola

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Inmazeb is a combination of three different antiviral monoclonal antibodies. However, that outbreak was controlled before Regeneron’s drug could be tested in a clinical trial. The technology allows for the efficient generation of a multitude of optimized antibody drug candidates directly from immunized mice.

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Pfizer and Valneva Issue Update on Phase 3 Clinical Trial Evaluating Lyme Disease Vaccine Candidate VLA15

Pfizer

These study participants, representing approximately half of the total recruited participants in the trial, are being discontinued following violations of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) at certain clinical trial sites run by a third-party clinical trial site operator.

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UK MHRA grants authorisation for Moderna’s Covid-19 booster vaccine

Pharmaceutical Technology

The updated, Omicron-containing bivalent vaccine that acts on two coronavirus variants is indicated as a booster dose for active immunisation for the prevention of Covid-19 in people of this age group. The latest MHRA decision is based on findings from the Phase II/III clinical trial, where the mRNA-1273.214 vaccine met all primary endpoints.