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Actithera draws new investors to radiopharma drug pitch

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Deep Dive Library Events Press Releases Topics Sign up Search Sign up Search Pharma Biotech FDA Clinical Trials Deals Drug Pricing Gene Therapy An article from Dive Brief Actithera draws new investors to radiopharma drug pitch The four-year-old biotech raised about $75 million in a Series A round that involved nine venture capital firms.

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David Liu receives Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Broad Institute

The organization has honored Liu for the development of the gene editing platforms base editing and prime editing, which can correct the vast majority of known disease-causing genetic variations and have already been used in at least 15 clinical trials, with life-saving results. In 2013, Broad founding director Eric S.

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Designing antibodies to think before they bind

Drug Target Review

Immediate priorities include: Launching Phase I/II trials of AP402 in p95HER2-positive cancers Advancing AP203 through Phase I trials Filing an IND for AP601 Sharing Phase I data from AP505, a PD-L1/VEGF bispecific in partnership with Tasly.

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Vamorolone

New Drug Approvals

The synthesis is disclosed in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, Volume 21 , Issue 8, 15 April 2013, Pages 2241-2249. Hoffman, Efficacy and safety of vamorolone vs placebo and prednisone among boys with duchenne muscular dystrophy: a randomized clinical trial, JAMA Neurol. 21 (2013) 2241–2249. 2013, 21, 2241− 2249.

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Protein degraders: chasing undruggable targets

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Since Crews launched Arvinas in 2013, various biotechs have set out with their own spins on the idea, chasing different degrader pathways to the lysosome or proteasome. Though it may not be used across a broader patient population, results from Arvinas and Pfizer’s trial of vepdegestrant offer some validation for degraders’ potential.

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Elacestrant 

New Drug Approvals

1] History The efficacy of elacestrant was evaluated in the EMERALD trial, which was a randomized, open-label, active-controlled, multicenter study involving 478 postmenopausal women and men with ER-positive, HER2-negative advanced or metastatic breast cancer. 1] [4] It is taken by mouth. [1] 3] [7] PATENTS Cruskie MP, et al. PMC 9340905.

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Navigating Regulatory Hurdles in Drug Development

DrugBank

The failure rate in clinical trials exceeds 90%, often due to insufficient safety data, efficacy concerns, or regulatory non-compliance. Even drugs that complete clinical trials may face delays or rejections if submission documents are incomplete or do not align with regulatory expectations.