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In the News: October Regulatory and Development Updates

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Each month, Camargo’s “In the News” series highlights important changes and advancements in the regulatory and development space and explores how those changes could impact your program. Unpacking the (Black) Box: Antares Licenses Urology Product with Boxed Warning. for patients with NTRK fusion cancer across all solid tumors.

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physIQ licenses virtual trial tech to Janssen in multi-year deal

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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 pharma company will use the technology known as accelerateIQ to collect data across its clinical studies through a variety of wearable biosensors.

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Post-COVID-19 cognitive impairment: a new target for drug development?

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Dr Paula Moran, Dr Kiri Granger, Dr J Mark Treherne , and Dr Jenny Barnett explore the effects of long Covid-19 symptoms and what the opportunities are for drug developers working to treat post-Covid-19 cognitive impairment. developed dementia over the subsequent two years (vs. Notably, among over-65s who had had Covid-19, 4.5%

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Novartis adds gene therapy for blindness with Gyroscope buy

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Gyroscope Therapeutics and its gene therapy for the sight-robbing disease geographic atrophy (GA) has been acquired by a big pharma company – 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.

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Angelini and Arvelle create neurology player with $960m merger

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There’s a new player in the neurology and mental health drugs market after Italy’s Angelini Pharma merged with Switzerland’s Arvelle Therapeutics in a deal worth up to $960 million based around the anti-seizure drug cenobamate. It is already in the late stages of development and expected to be approved in Europe later this year.

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Novartis taps immuno-oncology partner BeiGene for TIGIT drug

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Novartis has joined the ranks of big pharma companies developing TIGIT-targeted drugs for cancer, and found its candidate in an existing partner, Chinese biotech BeiGene. Pharma companies are looking at whether blocking TIGIT as well as PD-1/PD-L1 can improve the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy.

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How the patient voice is becoming vital for drug approval

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Rebecca Sanders from Lipodystrophy UK tells us how the patient voice helped convince NICE to approve a much-needed drug for this rare disease, and explores how regulators and pharma companies can help make patient involvement in HTA more impactful. This article appears in our free digital magazine Deep Dive: Market Access 2021.

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