SNIPR BIOME Announces U.S Food and Drug Administration grants Fast Track Designation for SNIPR001 for Prevention of Bloodstream Infections in Hematologic Cancer Patients
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Jan. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SNIPR BIOME ApS, a leading CRISPR and microbiome biotechnology company, has been granted Fast Track designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for SNIPR001. SNIPR001 is the company's first development candidate targeting E. coli in patients with hematological malignancy at risk of neutropenia. This announcement comes only a few weeks after the FDA approved the Investigational New Drug (IND) Application paving the way initiating the first clinical trial in humans. "At SNIPR BIOME, we are...
Daewoong Pharmaceutical Released Positive Phase 3 Topline Results for New Antidiabetic Drug
SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Daewoong Pharmaceutical (Daewoong) has confirmed promising phase 3 topline results that focuses on the therapeutic effects as an Enavogliflozin monotherapy and a combination therapy with Metformin. Daewoong's Enavogliflozin is an SGLT-2 inhibitor in development for the first time in Korea. The recent topline report...
Neurophth Therapeutics’ Treatment of Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy Gene Therapy NR082 was Granted Orphan Drug Designation by EMA
WUHAN, China and SAN DIEGO, Jan. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurophth Therapeutics, Inc., (hereinafter referred to as "Neurophth"), today announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP) granted the orphan drug designation (ODD) for the Company's leading gene therapy drug candidate, NR082 (rAAV2-ND4), for the treatment...
KAZIA THERAPEUTICS TO PARTICIPATE IN EDISON GROUP’S GLOBAL HEALTHCARE ‘OPEN HOUSE’ VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
SYDNEY, Jan. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kazia Therapeutics Limited (NASDAQ: KZIA; ASX: KZA), an oncology-focused drug development company, is pleased to announce that CEO, Dr James Garner, will be speaking at the Edison Group 'Open House' Event, to be held virtually from 25-27 January 2022. Kazia will be one of 33 leading...
Senhwa’s Pidnarulex Receives US FDA Fast Track Designation for the Treatment of Solid Tumors with BRCA1/2, PALB2 and other HR Gene Mutations
TAIPEI and SAN DIEGO, Jan. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Senhwa Biosciences, Inc. (TPEx: 6492), a drug development company focusing on first-in-class therapeutics for oncology, rare diseases, and novel coronaviruses, announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track Designation (FTD) for Pidnarulex, a first-in-class G-quadruplex stabilizer, for...
Sequanta selects Olink® Explore 3072 to analyze new cohort study in China
SHANGHAI, Jan. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Olink Holding AB (publ) (Nasdaq: OLK) today announced that Sequanta Technologies, a leading multi-omics service provider based in China, will use Olink® Explore 3072 to analyze the samples to serve a new large scale cohort study in China. Since 2021, Sequanta and Olink's partnership has provided Sequanta access to Olink's Proximity Extension...
Lifebit partners with NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre to launch the CYNAPSE platform for next-generation genomics research
LONDON, Jan. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lifebit today announces a long-term partnership where Lifebit's technology, Lifebit CloudOS, will power a cloud-based Trusted Research Environment (TRE) to serve as the scalable and secure data management and analysis platform for researchers at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). Lifebit partners with NIHR Cambridge...
2022 Japan Prize Laureates Announced
TOKYO, Jan. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Japan Prize Foundation announced the winners of the 2022 Japan prize on January 25. Prof. Katalin Kariko (Hungary/USA) and Prof. Drew Weissman (USA) are co-winners of the Japan Prize in the field of "Materials and Production," and Prof. Christopher Field (USA) has been awarded the Japan Prize in the field of "Biological...
Insilico Medicine Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Enabling Rapid and Cost-Effective Drug Discovery and Development with Its Pharma.AI Platform
The Pharma.AI platform combining deep generative models (GAN), reinforcement learning (RL), transformers, and other modern machine learning techniques enables the identification of novel targets, generation of novel molecules non-existent in the chemical space, and prediction of outcomes for clinical trials. SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the global artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled drug discovery industry, Frost &...
RemeGen’s Telitacicept Demonstrates Positive Results in Phase II Trial in Treatment of Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome
YANTAI, China, Jan. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RemeGen Co., Ltd. (9995.HK), a commercial-ready biotechnology company, recently announced positive results from the completion of its Phase II trial in China for Telitacicept in the treatment of primary Sjögren's syndrome ("pSS"). A total of 42 patients were enrolled in the Telitacicept study and randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups: 160mg, 240mg,...
