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MAY 7, 2024

A novel intravesical targeted drug delivery system for patients with bladder cancer has demonstrated positive data in updated results from a Phase I trial. The treatment is being evaluated in patients with non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) with select FGFR alterations.

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JUNE 21, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved LODOCO ® , the “first drug to target cardiovascular inflammation,” reported Dr Paul Ridker, MPH, Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A report by Towards Healthcare has forecasted that the advanced drug delivery market will value $375.86 The year 2023 was “significant” for the progress of advanced drug delivery systems, the author reflected. A key innovation method is the oral route of administration. billion by 2033. Last year, with a size of $234.84

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JANUARY 25, 2023

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has validated the Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel), the first regulatory submission for a CRISPR-based medicine. The edited cells, exa-cel, are then infused back into the patient as part of an autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT).

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JULY 3, 2023

Data showed 51 percent of patients on 80mg of the small molecule treatment elafibranor achieved a cholestasis response compared with four percent on placebo. The Phase III trial enrolled 161 patients. A significant proportion of PBC patients are unable to benefit from existing therapies. There are 22.27

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JANUARY 16, 2023

CARsgen Therapeutics has announced a col labor ation with Huadong Medicine to commercialise zevorcabtagene autoleucel (zevor-cel), CT053, in mainland China. Under the collaboration, Huadong Medicine will have the exclusive right to commercialise CARsgen’s CT053 in mainland China.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has approved Zurzuvae ( zuranolone ), the first oral medicine to treat postpartum depression (PPD) in adults. In Study 1, patients received 50mg of Zurzuvae or a placebo once per day for two weeks.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Incentivising small molecule drug innovation According to the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), the bipartisan Ensuring Pathways to Innovative Cures ( EPIC Act ) passed last week in the US, is a “critical” step for incentivising small molecule drug innovation.

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MAY 10, 2023

Synlogic has received orphan drug designation (ODD) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for SYNB1934 to treat phenylketonuria (PKU), a rare inherited metabolic disease. In 2019, Synlogic and Ginkgo Bioworks entered a platform collaboration to support a synthetic bionic medicines pipeline.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

The small molecule heart failure drug acoramidis has potential in slowing or stopping the progression of transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), according to study data published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The drug was also shown to lower cardiac congestion.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

Clarivate Plc has released its Drugs to Watch 2023 report — among 70 of the drugs highlighted, including potential blockbuster drugs, the majority were revealed to be personalised medicines. The report offers predictive analysis of drugs entering the market or launching key indications in 2023.

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JUNE 22, 2021

Milton Friedman A newly approved drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease is expected to become a multibillion-dollar expense for Medicare. By one projection, spending on the drug for Medicare patients could end up being higher than the budgets for the Environmental Protection Agency or NASA. Milton Friedman.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

a China-based pharma company has announced it has received clearance for its Investigational New Drug (IND) application from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate clinical studies of T21, a 3D-printed medicine that can target specific segments in the colon to more safely deliver oral ulcerative colitis (UC) drugs.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

After eight weeks of treatment, patients’ depression severity scores dropped by an average of 19.1 A second study led by Yvan Beaussant from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute that gathered input from patients in the trial during exit interviews. Psychedelic medicines: are they gaining traction in Europe?

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MAY 12, 2023

The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has announced that an international scientific team has developed a CRISPR-based drug candidate that targets E coli directly and leaves the microbiome intact. Blood cancer patients with E coli infection are at risk of bacteria infecting the bloodstream.

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JUNE 29, 2023

The world’s first AI-generated anti-fibrotic small molecule inhibitor drug has been administered to the first human patients. Phase II clinical trials in the US and China are now underway for INS018_055, Insilico Medicine’s potentially first-in-class oral drug candidate.

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JUNE 27, 2024

Looking back briefly to 2023, within the cell and gene therapy space, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved marketing authorisations for seven of these treatments. It means eligible individuals can be offered twice-yearly subcutaneous administration as alternative treatment option to intravenous administration.

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AUGUST 23, 2022

FAKE MEDICINES are not a new problem, and pose a tremendous threat to patient safety and public health in society regardless of a country’s economic status. The prevalence of fake drugs is a continually growing problem worldwide. 1 Simply, pharmaceutical products are the most vulnerable to counterfeiting.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2021

needs to take substantial steps to address the high costs of cancer drugs. From 2009 to 2019, the median monthly treatment costs for new drugs at launch reached $11,755 in the U.S… From 2009-10 to 2018-19, the lowest average monthly costs for new cancer drugs approved by the U.S. SUMMARY: The U.S.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Oral difelikefalin could potentially relieve the moderate-to-severe itching associated with notalgia paresthetica, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. To date, there are no US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved treatments specifically targeting this disorder.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Roche’s PATHWAY anti-HER2/neu (4B5) Rabbit Monoclonal Primary Antibody (PATHWAY anti-HER2 (4B5) test), which identifies low HER2 expression in metastatic breast cancer. High levels of HER2 mean patients are HER2-positive and thus are suited to HER2-targeted treatment.

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MARCH 18, 2024

A Phase III trial has shown that compared oral drug delivery, administering levodopa through an infusion pump led to nearly two hours of day (1.72) of additional time in which the medicine reduced symptoms in Parkinson’s patients. There were 381 Parkinson’s patients enrolled in the trial. and Joan A.

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MARCH 6, 2024

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first and only FDA-approved denosumab biosimilars, to treat all indications of the reference medicines. Wyost Similarly, Wyost 120 mg/1.7 mL (70 mg/mL) injection is a human monoclonal antibody designed to bind to the RANKL protein.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi (durvalumab) and Imjudo (tremelimumab) combination therapy has been approved in the US for adult patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Phase III trial results found that three years post-treatment, 31 percent of patients given the drug combination were still alive. p=0.0035).

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MAY 23, 2024

Last month, CARVYKTI ® (ciltacabtagene autoleucel; cilta-cel) was the first BCMA-targeted CAR-T cell therapy to be approved for second-line treatment of multiple myeloma by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 2 With this new indication, more patients will be able to access this innovative treatment.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Takeda’s single-dose pre-filled pen for ENTYVIO ® (vedolizumab) as a treatment for the chronic inflammatory disease ulcerative colitis. The biologic is approved for intravenous (IV) and subcutaneous (SC) administration.

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DECEMBER 7, 2022

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has authorised Comirnaty ® , the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for infants and children aged six months to four years in Great Britain. Additional authorisations and recommendations of Comirnaty ®.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Obtaining the preferences of patients and their caregivers is not a new concept in healthcare. Increasingly, however, industry guidance documents utilize the term ‘patient preference’ in relation to new drug development and benefit-risk assessment.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has authorised the first subcutaneous formulation of an anti-PD-(L)1 cancer immunotherapy to be made available to patients in Great Britain. Administration of Roche’s Tecentriq ® SC (atezolizumab) takes approximately seven minutes.

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MAY 31, 2023

The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson has submitted a new drug application (NDA) for its investigational single-tablet combination therapy of macitentan 10mg and tadalafil 40mg (M/T STCT) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).

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JULY 1, 2022

Blueprint Medicines has entered strategic financing partnerships for up to $1.25bn with life sciences-focused investors Sixth Street and Royalty Pharma. Ayvakit has received the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to treat advanced systemic mastocytosis in adults.

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APRIL 14, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has rejected Eli Lilly’s biologic licence application (BLA) for the ulcerative colitis (UC) drug mirikizumab over manufacturing concerns. No concerns related to the clinical data package, safety or the medicine label. The regulator has issued a complete response letter.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

New results from a first-of-its-kind study reports that a CAR-T cell therapy provided similar efficacy and safety to relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma patients administered with the treatment in clinical trials. Furthermore, 70 percent of these patients had a complete response.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first drug for desmoid tumours (desmoid fibromatosis), an oral gamma secretase inhibitor. The FDA’s approval of Ogsiveo is based on results from the Phase III DeFi clinical trial , which were published this year in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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APRIL 29, 2024

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapy BEQVEZ (fidanacogene elaparvovec-dzkt) for certain adults with haemophilia B. BEQVEZ is currently being reviewed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), Pfizer confirmed.

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MAY 24, 2023

Inovio has received orphan drug designation for INO-3107 from the European Commission (EC) to treat recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP). The latest designation comes after the European committee for orphan medicinal products provided a positive opinion on the company’s application for the therapy.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Following her presentation on age-related disease at BioFuture 2023, Executive Vice President of Drug Development for MyMD Pharmaceuticals ® , Jenna Brager, shares with EPR why the company’s next-generation tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha inhibitor has potential in inflammatory and autoimmune disorders.

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