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Overcoming challenges in biosimilar analytical characterization

Drug Patent Watch

Robust Clinical Trial Design : Clinical trials for biosimilars should be designed to demonstrate equivalence or non-inferiority to the reference product. This involves the use of statistical techniques such as equivalence and non-inferiority testing, as well as adaptive design approaches to reduce sample size and trial duration.

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Akston Biosciences Launches Phase I/II Clinical Trial of Second-Generation COVID-19 Vaccine

Drug Discovery Today

First subjects dosed with AKS-452, COVID-19 vaccine candidate in the Netherlands trial the vaccine is shelf-stable for 4 months at 25 degrees Celsius (77° Fahrenheit). 176 volunteers will participate in the clinical trial the safety and immune response read-outs expected in Q2 2021

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Emerging Trends in Clinical Trial Design

PPD

The COVID-19 pandemic rapidly accelerated the adoption of hybrid and decentralized clinical trial (DCT) models. However, as the world settles into its post-pandemic state and returns to pre-pandemic paradigms in many areas, the pharmaceutical industry remains dedicated to moving beyond traditional, centralized clinical trial constructs.

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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.

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Antibody Drug Conjugates: windows of opportunity

Drug Target Review

2 However, when dosed at the MTD, ADCs display improved efficacy over small molecules in oncology trials. Whilst no trials have been performed directly comparing small molecules with their ADC counterparts, it is possible to contrast data from trials with ADCs to those performed with analogous small molecules.

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Drug Channels News Roundup, September 2021: Hospitals’ 340B Profits, Drug Prices Deflate, U.S. vs. EU, Amazon vs. CVS, and More Bad Blood for Theranos

Drug Channels

on international benchmarking goes viral Amazon is finally disrupting CVS—but not how you expected Plus, the best article ever about Elizabeth Holmes’s Theranos trial. Read more » Copyright © 2006-2021 Pembroke Consulting, Inc. You can also find me on LinkedIn , where I have more than 20,000 followers. d/b/a Drug Channels Institute.

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COVID-19 Master Protocol Trial Participants Should Be Randomized, FDA Says | 2021-05-17

The Pharma Data

The agency noted that master protocols can save drugmakers time and money in study startup and can accelerate drug development by evaluating multiple drugs at the same time and maximizing the amount of information gained during research, compared to stand-alone trials. Read the guidance here: www.fdanews.com/05-17-21-COVID-19.pdf.

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