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Medicinal cannabis: Why more clinical trials and better access is needed

Drug Discovery World

Michael Sassano , CEO at SOMAÍ Pharmaceuticals looks at what’s needed throughout Europe to help increase access to medicinal cannabis and the current state of pharmaceutical research in this area. The use of medicinal cannabis across much of the world is still in its infancy.

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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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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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Rocket Pharmaceuticals’ gene therapy receives FDA RMAT designation

Pharmaceutical Technology

It is also licensed by Spain’s Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras, the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de la Fundación Jiménez Díaz and the Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas. The therapy has also received orphan drug and fast-track designations.

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Where is the promise for plant-based medicines? Part 1: Cannabis  

Drug Discovery World

In the first part of this series of articles focused on plant-based medicines, DDW’s Megan Thomas evaluates the use of medical cannabis in drug discovery. Medical cannabis is often a first-thought when regarding plant-based medicines, but there remains public scepticism, arguably due to the regulations relating to the substance.

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Why have medicines progressed so little in the last decades?

Drug Discovery World

Why has there been so little progress in medicine? 5 Reliability of animal testing Even the few drugs that go on to be licensed for use in the general population can have unexpected and serious adverse effects once they are prescribed in large numbers. Why has it been so unproductive? BMJ Open Sci. 2020;4(1):e100039. Coleman RA.

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Inozyme Pharma Announces Authorization to Proceed in U.S. and U.K. with Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial of INZ-701 for the Treatment of ENPP1 Deficiency

The Pharma Data

United Kingdom Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency authorized Clinical Trial Application. With these important regulatory clearances for our first-in-human clinical trial for INZ-701 in subjects with ENPP1 deficiency, we have transitioned from a research-stage to a clinical-stage company.