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CohBar and Morphogenesis in merger for immuno-oncology therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

Morphogenesis’s technologies include Immune Fx (IFx) personalised cancer vaccines and tumour microenvironment (TME) modulators. IFx has been designed to activate an innate immune response against tumour antigens that are patient-specific. Morphogenesis’ lead personalised cancer vaccine, IFx-Hu2.0,

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Closing the translation gap in oncology drug development

Drug Discovery World

Jantzen Sperry , PhD, Director of Scientific Operations at Certis Oncology looks at how the adoption of orthotopic PDX models can elevate the impact of cancer research and improve translation in oncology drug development. Fewer than 5% of oncology drugs that enter clinical trials in the US receive US FDA approval.

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Treatment potential for immunotherapy-induced cytokine release syndrome  

Drug Discovery World

Poolbeg Pharma, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialisation of medicines targeting diseases with a high unmet medical need, has announced promising in vivo results for POLB 001 in addressing cancer immunotherapy-induced cytokine release syndrome (CRS). million cases of cancer by 2030 1,2.

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Using single-cell technology to create human antibody-based therapeutics

Drug Discovery World

WM : Infinimmune is an early-stage antibody biotechnology company, focused on reinventing antibody drug discovery by developing human-derived antibody drugs. However, the limited number of drugs and targets demonstrates the need for new approaches to both discovery and development. This has consequences for safety and efficacy.

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Fighting viruses is as easy as breathing

The Pharma Data

Now, new research from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University has revealed that this constant pattern of stretching and relaxing does even more – it generates immune responses against invading viruses. a Wyss Technology Development Fellow at the Institute. ” The results are published today in Nature Communications. .

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Spotlighting Lupus Awareness Month: CAR-T Technology Creates New Avenues for Treatment of a Devastating Disease

WCG Clinical

An expected and well-known side effect of these B cell-targeted therapies is “B cell aplasia”— i.e. partial or complete depletion of B cells from circulation and immune organs. Lymphocytes have an extraordinary capacity to proliferate in response to immune stimulation. In these cases B cell depletion is a feature, not a bug.

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Q&A with Mark Garner: The golden age of cancer research  

Drug Discovery World

MG: I am responsible for Agilent’s cancer segment. For example, in CAR-T-cell therapy, scientists can take T-cells from a patient and ex vivo (outside the body) genetically engineer them to effectively target and kill cancerous cells, then infuse them back in to the patient. Mark Garner, PhD.,