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Gilead and Leo Pharma Enter into Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Development of Oral STAT6 Program with Potential in Multiple Inflammatory Diseases

Strategic Partnership Strengthens Gilead’s Inflammation Research Portfolio with the Addition of LEO Pharma’s Preclinical Oral STAT6 Program, Including Targeted Protein Degraders Gilead Will Have Exclusive Global Rights to the STAT6...

Category: Drug Discovery, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: January 11, 2025

Longest Follow-Up Data Reported for Kite’s Tecartus CAR T-Cell Therapy at ASH 2024 Reinforce Durable Efficacy and Survival Benefits

Only CAR T to Demonstrate Prolonged Overall Survival After Five Years Follow-Up in Relapsed/Refractory Mantle Cell Lymphoma ZUMA-2 Analysis Shows 91% Overall Response Rate, Including 73% Complete Response Rate, in...

Category: Clinical Trials, Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical
Posted: December 9, 2024

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Duke Street Bio Granted Approval by European Medicines Agency to Launch Next-Generation PARP1-Selective Inhibitor Trial

24 September 2024 -- London, UK -- Duke Street Bio Ltd, a precision medicine biotech developing next generation small molecule cancer therapies, is pleased to announce that the European Medicines...

Category: Clinical Trials, Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical
Posted: September 24, 2024

Dupixent recommended for EU approval by the CHMP to treat eosinophilic esophagitis in children as young as 1 year old

Recommendation based on a phase 3 study showing a significantly greater proportion of children on Dupixent achieved histological remission, compared to placebo, consistent with improvements seen in adults and adolescents...

Category: Clinical Trials, Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical
Posted: September 20, 2024

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DARZALEX® (daratumumab)-based quadruplet regimen receives positive CHMP opinion for transplant-eligible patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma

Recommendation supported by findings from quadruplet therapy PERSEUS study with daratumumab subcutaneous (SC) formulation in the frontline setting Findings showed 60 percent reduction in risk of disease progression or death...

Category: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical
Posted: September 20, 2024

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Certa Therapeutics Receives EU Orphan Designation for FT011, a GPR68 Inhibitor Being Developed as an Anti-Fibrotic Treatment for Systemic Sclerosis

22 July 2024 -- Melbourne, Australia -- Certa Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing innovative precision therapies for patients with inflammatory and fibrotic diseases, today announces that the European Medicines Agency...

Category: Biotechnology, Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical
Posted: July 22, 2024

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CHMP adopts positive opinion for BALVERSA (erdafitinib) for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable or metastatic urothelial carcinoma with susceptible FGFR3 genetic alterations

Pending approval, erdafitinib would become the first therapy targeting FGFR3 alterations in patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma, one of Europe’s most common cancers The CHMP’s recommendation is based on results...

Category: Clinical Trials, Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical
Posted: June 28, 2024

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New Kite Clinical Research and Real-World Evidence for Yescarta (Axicabtagene ciloleucel) Demonstrate Benefit From Earlier Lines of Treatment

Analysis shows manufacturing of axicabtagene ciloleucel in second-line treatment of relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma can help reduce time from leukaepheresis to infusion vs third-line plus treatment Data builds on previous...

Category: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Drug Discovery
Posted: June 14, 2024

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Kite Receives European Medicines Agency Approval of Safety Monitoring Variation for CAR T-Cell Therapy Portfolio

In-hospital patient monitoring for adverse events reduced from ten to seven days following CAR T-cell therapy infusion 6 June 2024 -- Stockley Park, UK -- Kite, a Gilead Company, today...

Category: Biotechnology, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: June 6, 2024

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Kite’s TECARTUS (Brexucabtagene Autoelucel) Demonstrates Sustained Overall Survival in Adult Patients with Relapsed/Refractory B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia

After more than four years of follow-up in the pivotal ZUMA-3 study, median overall survival was 26 months and four-year overall survival rate was 40% at 48 months Survival benefit...

Category: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Pharmaceutical
Posted: June 3, 2024

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Encouraging New Data Presented on Kite’s YESCARTA (Axicabtagene Ciloleucel) for Relapsed/Refractory Central Nervous System Lymphoma  

At median follow-up of 24.2 months, no apparent additional risks of adverse events related to axicabtagene ciloleucel were seen Findings also suggest efficacy trend with median progression-free survival and durability...

Category: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Pharmaceutical
Posted: June 3, 2024

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KITE Shares New Data at EHA 2024 Which Demonstrates Positive Patient Outcomes and Advances in Delivery of CAR T-Cell Therapy

Analysis comparing real-world and clinical trial data shows Yescarta (Axicabtagene Ciloleucel) has higher manufacturing success rates and improved T-cell performance, respectively, in second-line vs third-line+ treatment of large B-cell lymphoma...

Category: Clinical Trials, Pharmaceutical
Posted: May 14, 2024

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Gilead and Kite Oncology to Highlight Broad and Diverse Oncology Portfolio at ASCO 2024

Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Development Program Data to be Presented, Including the phase 3 EVOKE-01 Study Updated Results from phase 2 EDGE-Gastric Study of Fc-Silent Anti-TIGIT Domvanalimab Plus Anti-PD-1...

Category: Clinical Trials, Drug Discovery
Posted: May 7, 2024

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Gilead Sciences Appoints Peter Wickersham to Vice-President and General Manager in the UK and Ireland

7 May 2024 -- London, UK -- Gilead Sciences announced today the appointment of Peter Wickersham as vice-president and general manager for the UK and Ireland. In his new role,...

Category: Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical
Posted: May 7, 2024

Johnson & Johnson receives positive CHMP opinion for RYBREVANT▼ (amivantamab) in combination with chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer with activating EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations

This positive CHMP opinion establishes amivantamab as a new option, and the first fully-human EGFR-MET bispecific antibody, in the first-line treatment of EGFR exon 20 insertion-mutated NSCLC The recommendation is...

Category: Clinical Trials, Pharmaceutical
Posted: April 29, 2024

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