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MorphoSys, I-Mab Announce IND Application Clearance for Advanced Cancer Treatment
americanpharmaceuticalreview
September 27, 2020
MorphoSys and I-Mab jointly announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Investigational New Drug application (IND) for MorphoSys' investigational human anti-C5aR1 antibody MOR210/TJ210 for the treatment of relapsed or ...
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Gilead may soon buy Immunomedics in deal over $20 billion
expresspharma
September 24, 2020
The deal, which will expand Gilead’s oncology portfolio, might get announced tomorrow if not sooner, inform reports.
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Exelixis, NBE join forces for discovery and development of ADCs for cancer
pharmaceutical-business-review
September 24, 2020
Exelixis and NBE-Therapeutics announced a partnership to discover and develop multiple antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) for oncology applications by leveraging NBE’s unique expertise and proprietary platforms in ADC discovery, including site-specific ...
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$65 million expansion to HPAPI manufacturing facility
europeanpharmaceuticalreview
September 24, 2020
The expansion will be specifically designed to manufacture high-potency active pharmaceutical ingredients (HPAPIs) and complex antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs).
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Bristol Myers Squibb’s Opdivo shows benefit in oesophageal cancers
pharmatimes
September 23, 2020
Bristol Myers Squibb’s Opdivo (nivolumab) demonstrated promise in a phase III CheckMate-577 trial involving patients with oesophageal or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancers who had previously receiving neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy (CRT) and ...
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University of Edinburgh spinout Cellinta will develop gene therapies for cancer
pharmatimes
September 22, 2020
A biotech company spun out of the University of Edinburgh will utilise research to develop new gene therapies to target different types of cancer.
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Keytruda/Lenvima combo shows promise in hard-to-treat cancers
pharmatimes
September 22, 2020
MSD (Merck) and Eisai have revealed new data from two trials under the LEAP clinical programme evaluating the combination of MSD’s PD-1 inhibitor Keytruda and Eisai’s oral tyrosine kinase inhibitor Lenvima.
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Bayer’s Vitrakvi shows long-term efficacy in TRK fusion-positive cancers
pharmatimes
September 21, 2020
Bayer’s tumour agnostic therapy Vitrakvi has demonstrated sustained, long-term efficacy and safety in a number of tropomyosin receptor kinase (TRK) fusion-positive cancers, including lung and thyroid tumours.
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Palleon Pharmaceuticals secures $100m in Series B funding
pharmaceutical-technology
September 18, 2020
Palleon Pharmaceuticals has raised $100m in a Series B financing round to develop drugs targeting glycan-mediated immune regulation to treat cancer and inflammatory diseases.
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Scientists at University of Sheffield discover new drug to treat pancreatic cancer
expresspharma
September 18, 2020
Scientists at the University of Sheffield inform that they have invented a new drug which could improve life expectancy and quality for patients with hard-to-treat cancers, such as pancreatic cancer and relapsed breast cancer.