Atlas Genetics appoints Bob Johnston as Chief Financial Officer
08 January 2016
Atlas Genetics Ltd (“Atlas Genetics” or the “Company”), the ultra-rapid Point-Of-Care (POC) molecular diagnostics company, today announces the appointment of Bob Johnston as Chief Financial Officer, who will be based in the recently opened Boston office.
05 January 2016
Clearside Biomedical, Inc., a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company developing innovative first-in-class drug therapies to treat blinding diseases of the eye, today announced positive results from the company’s Phase 2 clinical trial of CLS-TA, Clearside’s proprietary form of triamcinolone acetonide, using suprachoroidal space (SCS™) drug administration for the treatment of macular edema associated with non-infectious uveitis.
Circulating Tumor Cells Linked with Treatment Resistance and Response in Prostate Cancer Patients
04 January 2016
Research teams at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Epic Sciences have found that greater diversity among circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the blood of advanced prostate cancer patients predicts not only shorter overall survival, but also the development of resistance to key anti-androgen therapies. Furthermore, high diversity among CTCs was not associated with resistance to taxane-based chemotherapy. This suggests that patients likely to fail anti-androgen therapies but potentially benefit from chemotherapy can be identified.
Syndax aligns with Merck KGaA and Pfizer on an immuno-oncology combo project
04 January 2016
Privately held Syndax Pharmaceuticals is pairing its breakthrough-designated cancer drug with an in-development immunotherapy from Merck KGaA and Pfizer ($PFE), hoping to hit upon a winning clinical combination.
04 January 2016
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, Pfizer and Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that they have entered into a collaboration agreement to evaluate avelumab*, an investigational fully human anti-PD-L1 IgG1 monoclonal antibody, in combination with Syndax’s entinostat, an investigational oral small molecule that targets immune regulatory cells (myeloid-derived suppressor cells and regulatory T-cells), in patients with heavily pre-treated, recurrent ovarian cancer.
16 December 2015
Marinus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:MRNS), a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of innovative therapeutics to treat epilepsy and neuropsychiatric disorders, announced that it has completed patient recruitment for the Phase 3 clinical trial of ganaxolone, a CNS-selective GABAA modulator, in adults with drug-resistant focal onset seizures. Sites participating in this global study have completed screening patients. After establishing eight weeks of baseline seizure frequency, patients randomized in the study undergo a two-week titration period followed by a twelve-week maintenance period.
16 December 2015
ReVision Optics, Inc., a leader in implantable presbyopia-correcting corneal inlay technology, announces that clinical data from its Raindrop® Near Vision Inlay for the treatment of presbyopia was the subject of two presentations at the 2015 OIS@AAO conference, held last month in Las Vegas.
14 December 2015
Clearside Biomedical, Inc., a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company developing innovative first-in-class drug therapies to treat blinding diseases of the eye, today announced completion of enrollment in the company’s Phase 2 clinical trial (Tanzanite) for the treatment of macular edema associated with retinal vein occlusion (RVO). The trial uses CLS-TA, Clearside’s proprietary form of triamcinolone acetonide, injected by suprachoroidal space (SCS™) drug administration, concomitantly with aflibercept (Eylea®, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals) delivered intravitreally. Clearside expects to report top-line data from this clinical trial in the first half of 2016.
11 December 2015
Epic Sciences, a private biotech company that develops novel diagnostics to personalize and advance the treatment and management of cancer, announced today that it has signed its 35th collaboration agreement with pharmaceutical companies. These collaborations use the Epic Sciences circulating tumor cell (CTC) platform to observationally monitor changes in the composition of CTCs during the course of clinical trials. In addition, CTCs identified are characterized by a range of genomic and proteomic markers. These CTC profiles can then be used to generate signatures that can be the basis of companion diagnostics that match the right patients to the right therapies.
07 December 2015
Marinus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of innovative therapeutics to treat epilepsy and neuropsychiatric disorders, announced the hiring of Jaakko Lappalainen, M.D., Ph.D., as Vice President of Clinical Development and Kimberly A. McCormick, PharmD, as Head of Regulatory Affairs. Dr. Lappalainen has 10 years of experience in the design, monitoring, interpretation and reporting of clinical trials at pharmaceutical research and development companies, including AstraZeneca. Dr. McCormick has more than 15 years of regulatory strategy and submissions experience at major pharmaceutical firms, including Shire and Pfizer.
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