This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
The deal consisted of a $29m loan and a $1m investment and gave the company enough funding to carry on its R&D work into next year. The RXC006 deal makes sense for AstraZeneca, which has respiratory diseases as one of its main focus areas, although IPF is being targeted by other pharmacompanies too.
Gyroscope Therapeutics and its gene therapy for the sight-robbing disease geographic atrophy (GA) has been acquired by a big pharmacompany – but likely not the one you would expect. CFI regulates the activity of the complement immune system which is over-activated in GA. It has been fast-tracked by the FDA.
Dix, who was previously chairman of the BioIndustry Association trade body, said the country’s unique healthcare system and research capabilities were instrumental in attracting vaccine developers. If you look at the development we signed 15,000 people in six weeks in a trial set up by the NHS.
Novartis has joined the ranks of big pharmacompaniesdeveloping TIGIT-targeted drugs for cancer, and found its candidate in an existing partner, Chinese biotech BeiGene. Pharmacompanies are looking at whether blocking TIGIT as well as PD-1/PD-L1 can improve the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy.
Biosensor firm physIQ has licensed its technology to Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen pharma unit in a multi-year deal, to investigate use of wearable sensors in virtual clinical trials. The pharmacompany will use the technology known as accelerateIQ to collect data across its clinical studies through a variety of wearable biosensors.
Last year, Belgium’s ExeVir Bio raised 23 million euros ($27 million) to finance development of llama antibodies – and now it is ready to begin clinicaldevelopment of a potential treatment that could be effective against emerging COVID-19 variants.
While the numbers are disappointing, IQVIA’s report suggests there are signs of improvement, at least in the commitment of regulators, the pharma industry, payers and other stakeholders to do better.
Pharmacompanies face many challenges when involving patients in the design of clinical trials – but doing so can have huge benefits further down the line, improving the sustainability and quality of research. The NIHR is also embedded in the NHS, perhaps the most trusted institution in the UK.
Parexel has been a champion of the concept for years, but while adoption was fairly slow pre-COVID, it has accelerated at a fast pace since the crisis, aided by the increasing willingness of regulators to accept decentralised trial data in marketing applications.
That was the message from ‘The New Normal: Balancing the rapid evolution of trial design with patient need’ panel at the NIHR’s Clinical Research Network Virtual Event on Delivering Complex and Innovative Design (CID) Studies. Thankfully, many pharmacompanies seem to be gradually improving on this.
Dr Jay Mei from Antengene tells us how the Asia Pacific region is opening up to innovative pharmacompanies, and gives tips for companies navigating this enormous market. At the same time, lots of people with experience at multinational pharmaceutical companies have chosen to return home.
The FDA’s approval of Duvyzat for DMD, based on our robust and successful clinicaldevelopment program, reflects Italfarmaco’s commitment to providing a safe and proven-effective therapy that can have a meaningful impact for people living with DMD,” said Paolo Bettica, MD, PhD, chief medical officer at Italfarmaco Group in a press release.
As we strive to improve the medical product development process and speed the development of effective new therapies to patients, digital health solutions are becoming increasingly available, affordable, and anticipated in healthcare settings by patients, clinicians, and caregivers alike, driving expectations for trial participants.
Xtalks spoke with Maria Reyes Boceta-Muñoz, Clinical Operations Head of Development R&D at GlaxoSmithKline in Spain, Portugal & Israel, to understand the current vaccine development climate and where the sector is headed. It is affected by factors such as complacency, convenience, confidence and cultural factors.
With other drugs in the pipeline too, van de Winkel said the company aims to continue to break new ground with next-generation antibody-based therapies. He notes that it already has 21 partnerships with pharmacompanies and will aim to keep more product rights than it did in the past. In good shape. We are in a crisis.
Although they have, by definition, small addressable markets, the treatments cost just as many resources to develop as therapies for more common diseases – sometimes more, because of the added difficulty of finding sufficiently large patient populations for trials and finding disease experts to run them. How big pharma tackles rare diseases.
The pharmacompany was quick to point out however that the CLOVER trial of PF-06425090 was undermined by a lower-than expected rate of C. diff since Sanofi ended development of its candidate in 2017, ahead of Valneva whose VLA84 has been shelved after phase 2 while it looks for a development partner.
It builds on the company’s four partnership projects: two with the generics and biosimilars firm Hikma, one with US biotech Inhibrix and another with an unnamed biosimilars partner. Regulators may not require the large phase 3 trials needed to approve completely new drugs, as safety is proven.
That may depend on funding, trial results and whether a big pharma decides to partner with MoonLake in the future to help take the drug into late-stage development and launch it. It’s extremely possible a pharmacompany may want to partner and it can have many forms. is the future in inflammatory diseases.”.
Cadavid will be responsible for the strategy, direction and execution of the company’s clinicaldevelopment programs. Prior to Fulcrum, Cadavid held several leadership positions at Biogen, including Senior Medical Director of the multiple sclerosis clinicaldevelopment group. Immune Regulation – U.K.-based
million in 2019 and is anticipated to increase at a CAGR for the study period 2017-2030 owing to dynamic pipeline therapies in the mid-/ late-stage clinicaldevelopment and rising gastroparesis prevalence. Gastroparesis Market: Influx of Pharma players and novel pipeline therapies.
In this interview, Xtalks spoke with experts from eClinical Solutions , Katrina Rice, Chief Delivery Officer, Data Services; and Diane Lacroix, Vice President, Clinical Data Management, about clinical data management for modern day digital clinical trials.
These are the vital structural component of cells, which help in cell functioning and regulation of building body tissues. However, continuous regulation of the cellular proteome is essential for maintaining the right balance of different proteins necessary for normal cellular function, survival, and proliferation.
Now it’s regulators, payers, academics, patient communities, physicians and industry all asking, “Where have you incorporated the patient voice? Moreover, we embed patient centricity far beyond clinicaldevelopment. Development is just the beginning. Where have you asked caregivers about what really matters?
The pharmaceutical industry finds, develops, manufactures, and promotes medicines or pharmaceutical drugs for usage as medications that are administered (or self-administered) to patients in order to cure, vaccinate, or relieve symptoms. Pharmaceutical companies may deal in both generic and brand-name drugs as well as medical devices.
The demand for an effective drug for nail fungus is high and MOB-015 can achieve a unique market position through its high antifungal effect,” says Anna Ljung, CEO of Moberg Pharma. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact persons set out above, at 8.00 CET on November 6, 2020.
The Current State of mRNA Analytics There isnt a lot of emphasis right now being put on new method development specifically for application to multivalent mRNA vaccines. And I think this is surprising given just how many multivalent mRNA vaccines are currently in clinicaldevelopment, begins Dr. Dawson.
Recombinant monoclonal antibodies are designed to enhance the immune system’s ability to regulate cell functions. The company currently plans to include more than 4,000 participants in additional trials, which it believes could support an initial regulatory approval as soon as the fourth quarter of 2021. government in September.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 21,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content