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Clinigen launches ‘What is Possible?’ campaign to accelerate access to medicines on Rare Disease Day 

With over 7,000 rare diseases that impact over 300 million people globally, just 5% of rare diseases have a licensed treatment 29 February 2024 -- London, UK -- Clinigen, the...

Category: Other
Posted: February 29, 2024

Clinigen
25 Bedford Square Bloomsbury London WC1B 3HH

Informed Genomics Limited comments on launch of national BRCA gene testing programme to identify cancer risk early

7 February 2024 -- Birmingham, UK -- NHS England have launched a genetic testing programme targeting tens of thousands of people with Jewish ancestry who are more likely to carry...

Category: Biotechnology
Posted: February 7, 2024

Informed Genomics
info@informedgenomics.com
Unit 5, Quinton Business Park, 11 Ridgeway, Quinton, Birmingham, B32 1AF

First MYC inhibitor to demonstrate safety and anti-tumour activity in a phase 1 first-in-human clinical trial

Developed in-house by VHIO-born spin-off company Peptomyc, OMO-103 is a mini-protein targeting the MYC oncogene which is found deregulated in most, if not all tumor types. Until recently, MYC has...

Category: Drug Discovery
Posted: February 7, 2024

Peptomyc
lsoucek@peptomyc.com
C/ Natzaret, 115-117 Barcelona, Spain, 08035

Landmark Phase 3 MARIPOSA Study Shows RYBREVANT▼(amivantamab) Plus Lazertinib Resulted in 30% Reduction in Risk of Disease Progression or Death Compared to Osimertinib in Patients with EGFR-Mutated NSCLC

Early data show an overall survival trend favoring the combination of amivantamab and lazertinib compared to osimertinib; consistent results seen in patients with and without brain metastases Late-breaking results from...

Category: Clinical Trials
Posted: October 24, 2023

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
mediaenquiries@its.jnj.com
Janssen-Cilag Limited 50-100 Holmers Farm Way High Wycombe Buckinghamshire HP12 4EG

Results from Phase 2 THOR-2 Study Showed Improved Rates of Recurrence-Free Survival in Patients with High-Risk Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer with Select Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor Alterations Treated with Erdafitinib Versus Chemotherapy

Data from Cohort 1 of the phase 2 THOR-2 study showed oral erdafitinib reduced the risk of disease recurrence or death compared with intravesical standard-of-care chemotherapy 21 October 2023 --...

Category: Clinical Trials
Posted: October 23, 2023

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
mediaenquiries@its.jnj.com
Janssen-Cilag Limited 50-100 Holmers Farm Way High Wycombe Buckinghamshire HP12 4EG

European Commission Approves ADCETRIS (brentuximab vedotin) for the Treatment of Adult Patients with Previously Untreated CD30+ Stage III Hodgkin Lymphoma in Combination with AVD  

· Approval Based on Updated Positive Overall Survival Results from the phase 3 ECHELON-1 Study for Stage III & IV Hodgkin Lymphoma  · First Significant Improvement in Overall Survival in Two Decades...

Category: Pharmaceutical
Posted: October 23, 2023

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company
61 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4AE, UK

MSD’s WELIREG▼(belzutifan) made available for the treatment of eligible adults with von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease in Scotland

Scotland is the first European country to accept belzutifan as a treatment for adult patients with von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease who require therapy for VHL-associated renal cell carcinoma (RCC), central...

Category: Pharmaceutical
Posted: October 9, 2023

Merck
IECustomerrelations@merckgroup.com
1 rue Jacques Monod, Site Montesquieu, 33650 Martillac, France